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Strong government institutional capacity is critical to scaling up. In this case, IREDA’s risk exposure impacted the TA’s original plan and alternative mechanisms had to be found.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Demonstrating the success of pilots can help governments to take further scaled up action.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Agreed. Furthermore, the UNESCAP previously piloted a TTFMM in South Asia. The approach was replicated under this TA project for Output c. The application of well-executed methodologies used in other comparable regions is a positive example of knowledge sharing and replication. It is also important to adopt the approach piloted in other region by fully customizing the approaches that are applicable to the region of the interest, which for this TA project was the Pacific region.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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This is a description of what has happened, not a lesson for a future TA project. Refer to lesson under Knowledge building.

Project Number: 42417-045
Project Name: Vertical Mobility and Safety Improvement
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A related point here is that knowledge products dissemination activities with purposively identified audience are critical to knowledge transfer and capacity development. In this regard, the TCR could have looked into the underlying reason for the no preparation or submission of the policy brief, and no conduct of the final dissemination event. In so doing, potential lessons and operational learning could be identified to benefit future policy and advisory TAs.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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Agree. The TCR could have identified the study findings that would be more realistically relevant and useful to other ADB member countries. Given the PRC’s unique institutional and policy environment, it is likely that the study findings on the reform of monopolized industries and promotion of private sector development could be of greater value to other member countries than the reform of SOEs and labor market.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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In the TCR’s Conduct of Activities section, it mentioned: “The nowcasting study featuring Indonesia was completed and published in the ADB Economics Working Paper series in December 2015 and in Empirical Economics journal in June 2017. This tool has been used regularly by the Indonesia Resident Mission to support their growth forecasts since 2016 and has also been shared to the Fiscal Policy Agency of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of National Development Planning of the Republic of Indonesia to enrich their suite of tools for conducting macroeconomic monitoring.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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This is more of a description of the new phase of PRIF than a lesson or recommendation identified from the completed phase.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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TCR did not include a lesson for this criterion, however, a relevant lesson can be found in the Follow_x005F_x0002_up Actions section: “To build upon the achievements of the project, a new KSTA [knowledge and support technical assistance] on Deepening Understanding of Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Developing Member Countries for Improved Economic Assessment was approved on 21 June 2018 to further deepen understanding of macroeconomic fluctuations in DMCs for improved economic assessment.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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The validation agrees that this is an important lesson especially as this was a cross-cutting gender specific TA project, and especially as this Phase 2 was building on work already undertaken in Phase 1. The TA project thus potentially offers a rich set of lessons; the documentation of lessons of replication is important and could potentially inform approach to how gender can be mainstreamed or scaled up across ADB operations.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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It is implied in the TCR that skills gained from preparing the studies for this project were useful to counterparts, especially in preparing bidding documents for another ADB project. A lesson learned here is that practical skills development of counterparts built into TA supporting the preparation of one investment operation can have spillover benefits for staff preparing other projects in the future.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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Also, as lack of capacity in fiduciary oversight is a common problem, the lesson can add that similar TA projects can be provided to ADB projects in other developing member countries.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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Agree. However, the lesson should add that future TA projects for Bangladesh education sector should build on the capacities already established under PEDP III.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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The suggested stakeholder participation lessons may also apply to scaling up.

Project Number: 50017-001
Project Name: Supporting Financial Sector Development and Stability
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This is a useful lesson learned but it is phrased as a recommendation. Rephrasing it into a lesson learned: When TA projects in the finance sector focus on specific subsectors or pecific themes, it allows for a comprehensive diagnostic assessment with adequate resources to address the biggest constraints in the sector or area. A more focused approach also allows the government to design and implement sequenced eforms in a sector.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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