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Lesson
The relevance of a TA could attract interest from other resident missions and lead to changes in scope and implementation arrangements to accommodate requests for support. Initially, this TA was designed to provide quick response to developing member countries' (DMCs) need to improve development planning.

Project Number: 52299-001
Project Name: Demonstrating Future Thinking and Foresight in Developing Member Countries
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Lesson
Revising ADB's knowledge partnership agreement (KPA) guidelines to streamline approval and reduce the number of steps could improve efficiency and allow flexibility. Simplifying the process may also attract more knowledge partners and strengthen ADB’s knowledge, reach and generate opportunities.

Project Number: 52060-001
Project Name: Building Resilience in the Pacific Small Island Developing States
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More effort toward improving cooperation on regional public goods will strengthen the value addition of future regional projects. Cooperation between the two countries during implementation was limited. More inter-country activities toward strengthening cooperation on regional public goods such as early warning systems, flood and drought management control, joint missions to share country experiences, and knowledge sharing during project implementation would be useful in future regional cooperation projects.

Project Number: 40190-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project
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Lesson
Focusing on a contiguous set of road sections will make the benefits of longer term highway investment programs easier to assess at both the design and completion stages.

Project Number: 40075-023, 40075-033, 40075-043
Project Name: National Trade Corridor Highway Investment Program (Tranche 3 and MFF)
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Lesson
This validation offers the following lesson: keeping the stakeholders engaged through national interventions and securing sources of post-TA financial resources (unless the TA project was a project preparation TA) is important especially for capacity building TA projects, to ensure continuity and sustainability of the project.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Lesson
The TCR lesson is not clearly articulated as a lesson. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM rephrased the lesson and provided additional information: ADB’s continuing support remains essential in pursuing policy reforms and building government capacity in project implementation. A TA for $500,000 under the Food Safety and Agriculture Commercialization Program will support the government in meeting the second tranche policy actions.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
As noted in the TCR self_x005F_x0002_assessment above, SIAP was instrumental in leveraging significantly more funding from ADB and the Government of Australia for SIAP2.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Lesson
Analysis of any post-TA allocation (or commitment) of resources to sustain TA activities/outputs could be useful indicators of sustainability.

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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Lesson
This is not a lesson pertaining to post_x005F_x0002_TA financial resources, but just provides information on further resources after the TA implementation.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
No lesson offered. How PPP knowledge and/or experience from other regions can be replicated in Asian countries.

Project Number: 48377-001
Project Name: Financing Public-Private Partnerships
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Lesson
The lifting of regulatory standards, the development of a project pipeline and the development of strategic trade and transport facilitation implementation plans help to direct government focus for budget allocation. Donors and the private sector are motivated to invest in areas where strategic development has already commenced, and where strategic plans are in place that have a coordinated long-term focus, and which can clearly demonstrate positive project outcomes.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
This is a description, not a lesson for a future TA project.

Project Number: 42417-045
Project Name: Vertical Mobility and Safety Improvement
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Lesson
The TCR lesson is valid. Also, if a country’s priorities change after an election, because of a change in government, this can jeopardize work done towards needed infrastructure or other investments. Rather than lose the gains made through that work, ADB and other development partners can work with other partners to incentivize investments from other areas. If the analysis that underpinned the advocacy of the initial investment is robust and relevant, then there may be ways to pay for the said investments despite changes in government priorities.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
As continued financing of gender-projects can be a challenge, a key lesson for ADB is to consider options for financing continued support to sub-projects including from other ADB TA resources. ADB teams could also prepare solid gender project financing proposals and market these to other donors so that these can be scaled up

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The nature of the new post-TA project should be explained, e.g., its relationship with the existing TA project (for example, whether it was aimed to address the audit observations issue mentioned above), its funding sources, and whether the existing TA project was instrumental in leveraging the new resources.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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