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Lesson
Quality knowledge products can be effective in raising awareness on a TA subject. This can help build support for agreement for action to boost regional cooperation.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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The linkage agreed between the BOJ and the HKMA has the potential to set an example in the region and beyond.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Lesson
The timing needed to reach regional agreement on sensitive matters is inherently difficult to predict. The use of optimistic targets may help motivate progress. However, the risks of delays in such projects need to be explicitly recognized.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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This could still be improved by providing actual experiences involving operational departments that contributed to the improvement of the TA’s implementation.

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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This is a repetition of the previous lesson. It could have been improved by highlighting the importance of stakeholders’ role in regional trade integration, supported by actual experiences.

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
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
This is essential for all kinds of projects. The TCR could have cited specific instances where coordination with the resident missions produced favorable results at design and planning stage.

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
The TCR could have indicated how the TA project resolved distinct challenges that involve regional integration issues to contribute to the better management of future knowledge building initiatives

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
If this TCR claims potential demand from other countries for similar TA projects, it could have provided evidence to support this. The TCR could have also highlighted what worked and what did not in the methodology used if similar TA projects would be replicated or lessons that could be useful in the follow-on TA project.

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
Cross-regional learning could be complemented with country-specific capacity building activities (which takes into account differences in country context) for a more effective capacity building activity.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Appropriately phasing orprioritizing the training programs could have prevented unnecessary time overruns.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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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
Designing the TA project in such a way that the scale of activities and outputs are commensurate and tightly linked with the outcome being targeted is important. In the case of this TA project, the outcome appeared to have been under-targeted.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Lesson
Agree on the need to continuously implement capacity building activities, given the rapidly changing development landscape and new emerging challenges, and to customize it to local languages for better understanding. The design of the next capacity building workshops should be informed by the feedback received from the participants from the post-training evaluation surveys conducted. It would be useful if SDCC could indicate these feedback and suggestions for future CDTA projects.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Lesson
Collaboration with other expert groups on tax policy and administration to attain a similar objective could be an effective way to ensure wider knowledge sharing at more efficient cost through the pooling of resources

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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