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Lesson
Procurement should be exhaustive. Developing a procurement strategy with proper analysis of market availability, operating environment, including capacity assessments of executing and implementing agencies, and risk management will help the project achieve its intended results in a timely manner. Where a project requires participation of government-owned universities or research centers, attention should be paid at project appraisal to para. 1.13 (c) of ADB’s Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2013, as amended from time to time).

Project Number: 45406-001
Project Name: Low Carbon Agricultural Support Project
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Lesson
Protracted bidding can compromise the implementation of projects. One of the major issues encountered by this project was the protracted bidding process undertaken by the executing agency (EA). The bidding process for the civil works and construction supervision contracts took more than 1 year to complete because of the EA’s unfamiliarity with the updated ADB guidelines. It added to an initial delay of more than 1 year because of changes in the road design, which required updating the design, feasibility study, and tender documents.

Project Number: 50063-001
Project Name: Kashkadarya Regional Road Project
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Lesson
Timely preparation of bidding documents and adequate technical support for the evaluation of bids are critical to streamline the implementation of the project.

Project Number: 46265-001
Project Name: Energy Efficiency for Ho Chi Minh City Water Supply
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Lesson
More extensive advertisement of bids could help maximize the participation of qualified bidders, specifically for complex procurement and large contracts.

Project Number: 44192-016
Project Name: SASEC Second Bangladesh-India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project
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Lesson
Timely preparation of bidding documents and adequate technical support for the evaluation of bids are critical to streamline the implementation of the project.

Project Number: 40238-023
Project Name: Productive Rural Infrastructure Sector Project in the Central Highlands
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Lesson
Setting realistic contract periods is crucial to timely implementation.

Project Number: 38254-043
Project Name: North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program - Tranche 2
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Lesson
The TCR lesson is not clearly articulated as a lesson. Some reflections on the causes that lead to a typical TA project to be TRTA would have been interesting lesson to reflect. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM rephrased the lesson and provided additional information: ADB’s flexibility to reclassify TAs was an important measure to adjust project design to changed circumstances without sacrificing the resources allocated for the TA.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
The TCRV lessons are practical and useful for designing other TAs to support survey development and implementation. The first lesson could be improved by drawing on analysis of concrete examples under this TA (e.g., give examples of issues resolved via pilot testing the survey instrument prior to implementation).

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
The PAMT seems to be a useful tool and should be considered for scale-up on a broader scale. Presenting data in the TCR so that it is aligned with the DMF enables easier validation.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
Suggested lesson: Approval of the proposed establishment of a center (the project outcome) was given first immediately before the project closure. Limited support from the government constrained the approval of the proposal to establish the KKC-IWRM. Hence, the staff faced increasing pressure to have it approved before the project closed. Nonetheless, the approval came on 17 September 2019, just before the project closure.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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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 should have provided a brief historical context of ADB’s engagement in the South Super Highway—the previous project had an extensive safeguards problem, and an issue with parallel bilateral agency funds. Despite that, ADB continued to engage in the same sector in the same region. However, differing political priorities of subsequent national leadership changed the course of the TA. The TCR could have elaborated how ADB should assess the political risks in starting or conceptualizing a similar loan in a sector that experienced prior difficulties.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Lesson
Risks need to be identified in the design stage and effectively mitigated against.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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Lesson
Rather than being a lesson learned, this is a useful recommendation. A suggested rephrasing of this into a lesson learned is: Establishing an interagency cooperation between different government authorities and designating representatives with a co-leading role ensure better management and timely resource mobilization, especially when targeted participants (including FDI investors and overseas contractors) are not managed and inspected by the implementing agency but by other government authorities.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Lesson
Early feasibility studies can be important mechanisms to assess institutional gaps, ensure alignment of the outputs and indicators with future proposed actions, and make any adjustments to the TA approach and the DMF as appropriate.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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