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Lesson
Thorough consideration of the local construction market and existing prices will contribute to more reliable project cost estimates.

Project Number: 43439-013, 43439-023, 43439-033
Project Name: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 (Mangystau Oblast Sections) Investment Program (Multitranche Financing Facility and Tranche 2)
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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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Including foreseeable variables in contingency allocations will reduce the risk of cost overruns.

Project Number: 39405-013
Project Name: Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program
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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
For complex large projects with complicated geological conditions and a long implementation period, project costs—especially contingencies—should be estimated more carefully

Project Number: 35354-013
Project Name: Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway Development Project
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Lesson
This validation has rephrased the recommendation into a lesson as follows: Providing adequate visibility to partners who have either financed the project or have special interest and stake in seeing its success is necessary to ensure their continued support.

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 lesson: Shifting government priorities is a common risk in projects and should be identified in the TA report. Further, risk mitigation measures should be identified to smoothen the implementation of a TA.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
No TCR lesson. In finalizing this validation report, the NRM added a new lesson: The involvement and coordination among development partners during the transition to a new form of government enhances the groundwork for complementary interventions and co-sharing opportunities. Nepal has a well_x005F_x0002_functioning development partners group on agriculture, which meets regularly on a monthly basis. The TA concept, and subsequent change in scope were presented to the group and their feedback incorporated, as appropriate.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Lesson
The TCR lesson is useful. Capacity development activities should look to identify opportunities to partner with other donors. This TA partnership with FAO (handbook and MOOC implementation) generated greater and more cost-effective results than would otherwise have been possible.

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
Additional lesson: The TA cluster modality addressing many sectors (as in this project) can enable effective application of the “One ADB” concept with resident mission and HQ staff engaged.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Procurement, governance, and implementation is a relatively significant issue in Bangladesh, which is of concern to other multilateral and bilateral donors as well. Exploring co_x005F_x0002_financing and co-sharing opportunities could offer a possibility to work with other donors so that capacity building can be done at the scale and go deeper into systemic issues in the given sectors.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
This is a description of outputs and does not constitute a lesson. During the finalization of this validation, SARC provided another lesson: Partnership and working on related initiatives with donors and other ADB TAs promote leveraging of available financing to maximize results and enhance cross-learning.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Lesson
This does not read like a lesson, but a description of what happened. A lesson could be that the sharing of best practices among institutions engaged in the sector and any partnership groups among DPs can greatly contribute to the outcomes of a TA.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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Lesson
The TA project was cofinanced by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction and ADB through theThe TCR did not comment on the mechanism used to update cofinancing partners on progress toward key milestones and developments of the TA project. It is important to keep stakeholders engaged and informed during the project implementation. This is especially true when a project has a long implementation timeframe.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
The main lesson here seems to be that the facilitation of donor coordination by government can play a critical role in ensuring policy and program coherence and help them achieve their intended targets in the long term.

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