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Lesson
Subloan processing and disbursement need to be fast enough to allow for subborrower commercial operations to gain traction before the start of loan repayment

Project Number: 45273-001
Project Name: Financing Brick Kiln Efficiency Improvement Project
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Lesson
Mechanisms to ensure the availability of RBL-specific information from all participating states and/or government agencies need to be incorporated in the program design.

Project Number: 47354-003
Project Name: Supporting National Urban Health Mission
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Lesson
Long-term ADB engagement with the same implementing agencies, such as through a multitranche financing facility (MFF) approach, enables the improvement of skills and the inculcation of international-level experience in government staff.

Project Number: 43467-014, 43467-015
Project Name: Madhya Pradesh Energy Efficiency Improvement Investment Program – Tranche 1
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Lesson
Extending the availability period of an MFF can enhance development outcomes.

Project Number: 37139-053
Project Name: Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 4 and MFF
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Lesson
The multitranche financing facility (MFF) is not suitable when the executing and implementing agencies (EAs/IAs) do not have adequate staff resources to design, implement, and monitor a number of interrelated projects over a period of up to 10 years.

Project Number: 37139-053
Project Name: Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 4 and MFF
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Lesson
Extending the availability period of a multitranche financing facility (MFF) can result in a better development impact.

Project Number: 37139-023
Project Name: Uttaranchal Power Sector Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Lesson
This validation agrees that cooperation and coordination, especially with other ADB departments, is important. This was a missed opportunity for this TA project. It is, however, not clear though why a visit to the People's Republic of China is required or recommended for the next ACMF TA.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Lesson
This validation also offers this TCRV lesson: When changes are made to a TA's scope, it should be made explicit the extent to which originally planned results would not be achieved as a result of the new approach. Under this TA, it was not fully clear that the originally foreseen concept for a stand-alone investment project would not be produced due to the shift in the TA's scope. Project scope should be undertaken with care. It is essential to go back to the design board and re-adjust the indicators and consult with stakeholders if changes are made.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
The lesson is not clearly articulated as a TCR lesson. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM rephrased and provided additional information: ADB’s flexibility to adopt to changed country context is crucial to maintaining project relevance. ADB was quick to respond to the government’s need for critical policy reforms as a greater priority than the value chain component in the context of federalism. ADB’s flexibility reflected in a minor change in scope of the TA was useful to design a policy-based program in less than one year.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
This is an appropriate point, but this lesson could have been better phrased as follows: An active partnership with the government is necessary to reduce delays in project commencement and to ensure full commitment and timely allocation of counterpart resources.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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Lesson
Useful lesson. It may have been more useful had the TCR included more specific information on the issue and how it impacted this TA. Also, targeted outcomes and output indicators should have been reviewed for relevance and/or practicality during implementation and formally adjusted if they were no longer appropriate

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 lesson suggests that the TA project may not have focused enough on the actual needs of the staff, and they could have done a better job at identifying gaps in skills and meeting these through partnerships.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
The TCR did not have a lesson for this criterion. However, during the finalization of this validation, the South Asia Regional Cooperation and Operations Coordination Division (SARC) provided this lesson: Implementing regional TAs is more complex and entails continued commitment and engagement of participating countries. A comprehensive risk analysis and appropriate mitigating measures should be in place and regularly updated throughout implementation to efficiently address issues that may come up.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Lesson
There appears to be strong government commitment to adjust the scope and coverage during the TA implementation

Project Number: 48377-001
Project Name: Financing Public-Private Partnerships
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Lesson
This validation agrees but suggests that this lesson is relevant to the next section–Management. A key lesson is to ensure that recruiting consultants with the right skill sets should be prioritized at an early stage in implementation, especially for projects requiring highly specialized technical skills

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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