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Lesson
Budget approval and procurement of new technologies being piloted could take time and cause implementation delays; when installed, rigorous monitoring of the performance of the new technologies is required to ascertain benefits and draw lessons from the pilot experience. In implementing the four pilot smart grid projects, substantial delays occurred due to the lengthy budget approval process and the procurement requirement of open competitive bidding while allowing international bidder participation.

Project Number: 50016-001
Project Name: Sustainable Energy Access in Eastern Indonesia—Electricity Grid Development Program
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Setting well-considered and realistic targets for indicators can highlight project performance and minimize revisions during implementation. Revision of DMF targets created the notion that the executing agency was merely avoiding a poor or low achievement rating and it should be clearly explained

Project Number: 46094-001
Project Name: Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Project (Phase 2)
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Lesson
This validation offers the following lesson: keeping the stakeholders engaged through national interventions and securing sources of post-TA financial resources (unless the TA project was a project preparation TA) is important especially for capacity building TA projects, to ensure continuity and sustainability of the project.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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As noted in the TCR self_x005F_x0002_assessment above, SIAP was instrumental in leveraging significantly more funding from ADB and the Government of Australia for SIAP2.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Lesson
As continued financing of gender-projects can be a challenge, a key lesson for ADB is to consider options for financing continued support to sub-projects including from other ADB TA resources. ADB teams could also prepare solid gender project financing proposals and market these to other donors so that these can be scaled up

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The TCR did not mention this dimension explicitly in the document. In-country ownership by government and/or private sector would be required to consolidate gains.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
The TCR could have mentioned whether or not governments would be allocating resources or other development partners would be funding projects that would contribute to the achievement of the TA project’s expected impact.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Lesson
Pooling resources and activities with the other organizations could ensure that there will be no duplication and that initiatives are strategically prioritized and synergized.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Lesson
Based on further information provided by ERCD, ensuring that adequate resources are allocated to finance important associated costs (e.g., hiring of dedicated staff to monitor use of proceeds and to ensure compliance with post-issuance reporting requirements) could help facilitate sustained increase in green bonds issuance.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
A follow-on TA with a similar structure (R-CDTA 9660) was approved in late 2018 to continue with gender operational support and innovation to support the implementation of the new Gender Operational Plan. In addition, other proposals have been prepared for continued support to some of the subprojects (e.g., FCFWI Tbilisi and Bandung) from funds available from the ADB Governance and Urban sector and thematic groups.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
Domestic Resource Mobilization Trust Fund (DRMTF) and the TA project Enhancing Tax Transparency of ADB Developing Member Countries have taken over this TA project’s role while wider engagement with operations departments and units will support the development of integrated DRM solutions by pooling and coordinating knowledge, expertise, and other resources under a One ADB approach.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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The follow-on TA project to support the implementation of some findings of this TA project is costed at $3 million.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Lesson
India, Indonesia and the PRC all expressed the need for capacity building TA project and support to tailor the generic accountability mechanism framework to their country situation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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Lesson
The TA project supported 19 DMCs (including subregional initiatives in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation, Greater Mekong Subregion, and the Pacific) in 11 sector or thematic areas through 67 activities during TA project implementation. It has received positive responses from ADB’s operational departments and DMCs, contributing to the mainstreaming ICT in ADB operations.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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