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Promoting knowledge exchange and sharing of lessons learned from successful climate financing applications is important in a context of very limited experience with innovative climate finance mechanisms.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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When building a new partnership, it is important to carefully assess partners’ capacity, provide prior guidance on ADB’s required procedures and expectations, and select the right partnership modalities to avoid the unexpectedly high transaction costs to make the partnership work.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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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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It is important to keep a good balance between the subprojects or activities that are innovative but riskier and those that have firm disbursement schedules, so that the risk of TA implementation failure would be minimized. Subprojects to work with cities or municipalities turned out to be unpredictable, driven significantly by the political economy situation of the counterpart and are likely to face delays.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Timely consultant recruitment, fielding and rigorous monitoring ensured quality and on-time implementation and completion of subprojects. Regular project performance reporting facilitated in alerting management of operations departments regarding progress and performance of subprojects.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Documenting the replication experience is crucial. Part of the TA fund was successfully used for replicating and scaling up the existing models (e.g., ethnic minority women-led community road maintenance, integration of domestic violence survivor shelters in urban projects) and the experience has been turned into useful knowledge products.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Counterpart government agencies’ ownership is crucial. The roles of resident mission gender specialists and the operations department gender anchors are key in ensuring in-country stakeholders’ participation.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The TA design that is fully aligned with the operational plan priorities and structure, as well as the thematic group workplan, has made the TA implementation and monitoring smooth, as this can be done in conjunction with the overall operational plan monitoring and reporting.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Pursuing pilot innovations and knowledge solutions resulted in the integration of new agendas into design of lending operations such as gender_x005F_x0002_based violence, women’s employment in the renewable energy sector, women’s leadership in water utilities and narrowing gender gaps in skills nontraditional sectors among others. The TA demonstrated the essentiality of collection of solid gender data in preparing a good project design through evidence-based planning.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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When a TA project is significantly different from what ADB has done before, and where therefore ADB and consultants have to collectively figure out how it will be implemented, a quality-based selection method may work better than a quality and cost-based selection. It gives teams the flexibility to choose the consultant who has the best experience and ideas, rather than one who is the least costly.

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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The TA project team built close partnerships with private sector bodies such as Confederation of Indian Industry and the Indo–Thai Chamber of Commerce, as well as with institutes such as Institute for SME Development. These partnerships were important in ensuring good design and successful implementation. The partnerships were also important in disseminating TA project findings to government counterparts.

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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As weak capacity in revenue administrations still remain due to emerging challenges including significant and rapid changes in the business circumstances (i.e., expansion of cross-border supply chain and digitalized platform), scaling up capacity building initiatives to address these challenges will be required. The subprojects implemented by ADB regional departments should be well designed at the initial stage to improve the likelihood of success.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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When implementing an innovative TA project, seeking the support of different ADB departments, each with its own strengths, can help improve quality.

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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For multiple year TA projects, it is important to regularly keep meeting with government counterparts to ensure that the TA project remains relevant to their needs, and to fine tune if their needs change. It is also important to build close relationships with nongovernment stakeholders as it can help mitigate the risks emanating from changing government priorities and policies.

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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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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