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Lesson
Customizing the terms of reference of auditors to project requirements and ensuring that they are properly oriented on these requirements are critical to promoting project compliance with ADB financial management procedures. There were gaps in complying with the financial management conditions of the loan agreement, including the need to timely submit audit reports and auditor’s management letters and opinions.

Project Number: 49419-002
Project Name: Solar Rooftop Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Project financial auditing needs to be synchronized with the project Completion review timeline which requires disclosure of the report within 12 months of the financial closing of the loan account.

Project Number: 42378-017
Project Name: Power System Expansion and Efficiency Improvement Investment Program (Tranche 3)
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Better coordination and the Preparation of a consolidated project financial statement for projects being implemented by multiple agencies will facilitate the timely submission of annual project financial statements (APFSs) which in turn will help avoid delays in loan disbursements. In this program, the Preparation by the two EAs of separate annual project financial statements, both audited by an external auditor, created an unnecessary administrative overload for ADB.

Project Number: 35290–013, 35290–043
Project Name: North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Identifying critical risks and assumptions are an important element of design. However, design could also usefully identify mechanisms to mitigate these risks.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Drawing on lessons from similar previous TA projects can help in robust design that is responsive to DMC needs, isrealistic, and adopts best practice. This could help to get greater stakeholder engagement in complex processes such as regional capital market integration.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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An additional lesson would address the design shortcomings of the second outcome indicator. Measuring the participants’ intention to put into practice what they learned from the trainings does not measure if they actually and successfully put those learnings into practice. Thus, such indicator cannot adequately capture the extent to which capacity was improved.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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This validation also offers these lessons: 2. IIn DMF design, it is also best practice if indicator targets are made specific and defined based on the full extent of results expected under an output, rather than a partial result. For this TA, the indicator 1c was defined as "at least 3 market centers for upgrading identified," and the TA did identify 3 market centers for upgrading. However, the TCR considers the output as only partly achieved, because the TA did not provide a summary of the detailed upgrading needs of the markets, which was foreseen in the TA activities.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
Appropriate point, but this lesson could have been better phrased as follows: During TA planning and design, an active coordination between the ADB project officer and the nominated client representative is necessary to ensure that the TA design keeps pace with evolving client needs and can be adjusted as necessary prior to the TA project’s approval.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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This validation also offers these lessons: 1. In DMF design, it is most favorable if quantitative indicator targets are described with sufficient context to clearly rationalize the target values. This provides a transparent and logical basis and facilitates the assessment of the validity of the targets. Lack of information on how targets were set and then revised hinders validation.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
No TCR lessons. In finalizing this validation report, NRM added a new lesson: Continued engagement and dialogue with the government on changes in priorities is crucial in determining the most appropriate type of assistance, financing modality and project design. Scope changes in the TA have financial implications, which may require original output targets to be adjusted. In this case, the numbers of corridors and commodities to be mapped were reduced as resources had to be diverted to undertake policy review for the program loan.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
An additional lesson could have been that outcome indicators, which are measurable and relevant to all participating DMCs involved in a regional TA, should be identified.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Additional lesson provided by IRM during interdepartmental comments: Cluster TAs such as SIAP have long approval processes due to the need to obtain separate approvals from the Steering Committee as well as ADB management.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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The TCR lesson is appropriate but could have been more clearly worded. This lesson, for example, could have been reworded, to wit: “Effective dialogue with implementing agencies during the design stage is critical to efficient planning of activities, budgets, timelines and performance indicators.”

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Additional lesson provided by IRM during interdepartmental comments: Providing TA support when projects are not in the Blue Book5 and counterparts have not issued commitment letters presents a unique risk that future TA interventions should mitigate.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Lesson
Additional lesson: Meaningful outcome indicators are consistently, plausibly, and directly linked to desired outcomes.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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