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Lesson
The COVID-19 Pandemic Response Option (CPRO) is an effective countercyclical measure that needs to be followed up by additional assistance from ADB and other donors to ensure the Kyrgyz Republic’s continuous, multifaceted recovery from the pandemic.

Project Number: 54169-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Appropriate contract packaging is an essential precondition for the smooth implementation of civil works.

Project Number: 37269-013, 37269-023
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia
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Lesson
Contract packaging should carefully consider the market conditions while ensuring competition and efficiency.

Project Number: 42039-034
Project Name: Power Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 1
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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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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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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
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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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
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
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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Lesson
Despite what the TCR noted with regards to the incorrectness of the performance indicator (Appendix 1), the design and monitoring of outputs and outcomes for TA projects should be owned by ADB’s own project officers—not delegated to government counterparts or consultants.

Project Number: 48459-001
Project Name: Reforms in the Public Sector Compensation System
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The TCR should have provided more details about consultants and their work. The TA fund was underutilized, with the consultants’ costs reduced from $370,000 to $228,000.Substantial TA outputs were also under-delivered. The TCR should have investigated and discussed why this was the case. Meanwhile, it would have been useful to also discuss the performance of ADB staff, the executing agency, and the implementing agency, in the context of under-delivered TA outputs.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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