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Lesson
Greater consideration on the road safety and maintenance during planning and design stage increases the benefits of a road project and enhances its sustainability over time. For instance, building the capacity of implementing agencies to better implement road safety action plans and programs contributes to enhancing road safety policies and facilitate a more effective road programs and safer road environment. Ensuring that road safety regulations and standards are well implemented is also crucial in strengthening the road quality management

Project Number: 43439-023, 43439-033, 43439-013
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 2 (Mangystau Oblast Section) Investment Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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Road maintenance funds could be prudently raised by exploring the wider use of road user charges, ringfencing revenues from road or fuel taxes, and/or by including provisions for maintenance in road reconstruction contracts. Incorporating a performance-based maintenance contract for road routine maintenance could improve the funding sustainability of road maintenance. This concept is useful in assisting agencies with low level of institutional and financial capacity to help preserve road assets’ maintenance and reduce the cost of future rehabilitation and reconstruction works.

Project Number: 43439-023, 43439-033, 43439-013
Project Name: CAREC Corridor 2 (Mangystau Oblast Section) Investment Program (Tranche 2 and Multitranche Financing Facility)
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The program proved to be a timely and effective means of channeling support to the government. Designed with coordinated support from various development partners,the government-led program, was coherent and relevant and delivered most of its intended outputs and outcomes. Several performance Indicators had specific Gender targets, which supported the government’s efforts to deliver on its commitment to women’s empowerment during a period when women were disproportionately affected by the impacts of the pandemic.

Project Number: 54188-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Lesson
The vehicle axle load control planned by the government needs to push through and be operated well to maintain the structural integrity and promote the sustainability of a section of the project road

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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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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Immediate and proper recognition by both ADB and the government counterparts of implementation delays, followed by the execution of prompt resolutory measures, will reduce the delays as well as their unintended consequences.

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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Required capacity development activities and targets should be well specified in the main proposal document, the Report and Recommendation of the (ADB) President (RRP).

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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Another lesson relating to the TA is the selection of appropriate design and monitoring framework indicators that pertain to the effective utilization of knowledge products. Since the main outputs of regional capacity development TAs are knowledge products, monitoring the extent of utilization or uptake of the knowledge products produced within and/or outside ADB would benefit from user surveys or interviews. These surveys and interviews can help provide insights into how the knowledge products have benefited their users.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Agreed. A useful lesson is the importance of partnerships with the client to ensure buy-in and follow through, and to tailor to additional capacity building demands from the DMCs

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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There is a need for careful planning in the context of an exploratory TA, such as this one, to allow for timely delivery of outputs while ensuring process and cost efficiency

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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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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Agreed. Another useful lesson is the importance of involving clients in a hands-on manner to build a technical product and ensure the transfer of technical expertise, and the subsequent adoption or uptake

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Lesson
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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Lesson
Agreed. A useful lesson is the importance of partnering with other knowledge institutions to tap expertise and efficiently use financial resources.

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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