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Lesson
The dispersed location of project sites could make implementation management and supervision difficult. The sites of this project were spread in the north, east, and southwest of Chongqing, mostly in mountainous terrain, making management and supervision difficult for both the project management office and ADB.

Project Number: 45509-002
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration II Project
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Lesson
Inadequate consideration of the project sites' topography and geological conditions in project feasibility studies and detailed engineering designs could lead to unexpected cost increases during implementation. There was a significant cost increase in land acquisition and resettlement due to changes in the project scope and additional land acquisition that needed to be undertaken because of the complex geological conditions in some sites resulting in increased civil works costs in some packages.

Project Number: 45509-002
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration II Project
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Lesson
Inadequate consideration of climatic constraints,working seasons in the project sites, difficult terrain, and availability of experienced local labor and construction materials can cause construction delays with implications on project implementation periods and costs .

Project Number: 37143-033
Project Name: North Eastern States Roads Investment Program - Project 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Lesson
The selection of subprojects and project timeliness need to consider the Implementation complexity (such as topography, adverse weather conditions at the construction site, and the need for specialized experts), experience of the executing agency, availability of specialist contractors, and available working seasons.

Project Number: 40648-013, 40648-037
Project Name: Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism (Tranche 4 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Lesson
Joint engagements by development partners in policy dialogue, budget support, and the coordination and prioritization of technical assistance (TA) maximize donor assistance to developing countries.

Project Number: 52030-001
Project Name: Strengthening Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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Lesson
This validation offers the following lesson: although TA design may identify a particular model of consultancy, these needs may evolve during the program requiring adjustment. In this case, in developing a model that responded to the needs of ACMF’s working group on corporate governance, the TA project shifted its approach since the regulators felt that an audit firm (rather than consultants) would lend more credibility and recognition to the validation exercise.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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Lesson
The TCR lesson is well developed and the TORs are also well written.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
Useful lesson. It may have been more convincing though had the TCR included a specific example of the application of this lesson to the TA

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
Another lesson might be: the gains made by this TA project are due to close ADB involvement, ensuring continuous support from the government.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
This TCR lesson learned is not clear. A lesson might be: including a training of trainers (from the government) approach could potentially contribute to sustainability of TA project benefits.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
A lesson could have been included here regarding the benefit of sourcing individual experts as opposed to a firm for wider experience and knowledge of PPPs in other countries.

Project Number: 48377-001
Project Name: Financing Public-Private Partnerships
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Lesson
The validation appreciates that regular consultation between ADB and concerned partners is important. However, this is standard good practice project management.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
Agreed. Strong field office support helps to facilitate smooth and efficient project implementation and delivery.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
As noted in the subsection above, a lesson could be that, for highly technical projects, recruiting consultants with the right skills and international expertise is an important consideration that should be built into project design at an early stage. In this case, the TA had to go back several times with memos seeking approval for recruiting consultants.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Lesson
This is a description of what was done, not a lesson for a future TA project. . A lesson is: Significant changes in scope requires careful consideration of the impact on the effective and efficient use of the TA project resources.

Project Number: 42417-045
Project Name: Vertical Mobility and Safety Improvement
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