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Lesson
This does not read like a lesson, but a description of what happened. A lesson could be that the sharing of best practices among institutions engaged in the sector and any partnership groups among DPs can greatly contribute to the outcomes of a TA.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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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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Lesson
Another internal lesson could be that when introducing additional funding midway through implementation—such as the TASF in this project—the TA needs to closely plan and monitor activities so that the overall TA project implementation is not delayed.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
The key lesson for ADB is to assess partner capacity and provide detailed guidance on operational procedures to manage expectations and to make the partnership effective.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Lesson
This lesson learned is too broad to be able to provide a lesson learned to other projects. A more specific lesson based on this TA’s implementing experience could be that ensuring a strong partnership and coordinating the implementation of activities with executing and implementing agencies, as well as donor partners, are critical for a successful TA, especially when there is a high staff turnover in the implementing agencies.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Lesson
In this TA, the Central and West Asia Department. collaborated effectively with the East Asia Department and the Development and Climate Change Department. A lesson from this would be: In a regional TA, application of the "One-ADB" approach can be particularly effective.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Lesson
External NDF cofinancing and GCF climate finance partnerships were referenced here, and lessons provided were very broad, and not supported by evidence in the TCR. Internal ADB partnerships were not mentioned in the TCR, which would be important for encouraging broader adoption and sustainability of respective DMCs’ TA efforts via the country dialogue processes.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Accessing additional professional and technical resources was helpful in contributing to the success of the TA. In particular, the involvement of technical experts from the WCO enhanced the provision of technical support and enabled the TA to develop methodologies (TRS, JCC). In addition, the use of Japanese resource persons enabled the TA to draw on country practices in customs modernization and visibility improvement. These lessons could be relevant to other JFPR-funded TA projects as well.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Lesson
In cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a Water Partnership Working Group was established, with participation of development partners (DPs) involved in the sector. The best practices in the sector and education were shared. This network greatly contributed to the TA’s outcome. DPs agreed to continue to support the sector in the country and at the regional level and confirmed their financial support in the institutional and investment programs.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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Lesson
Staff turnover in implementing agencies created challenges during the project implementation. Strong partnership with executing and implementing agencies, as well as with donor partners, allowed to coordinate the activities and contributed to achieving outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Lesson
Partnership with institutions, like the International Monetary Fund and those from developed counterparts like the Bank of Italy, has enabled us to work together and tap relevant expertise.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Lesson
Close exchange with the GCF Secretariat as well as with other multilateral development banks and development partners accredited to the GCF has been helpful for understanding the investment criteria of climate financiers. The TA benefited from cofinancing by the NDF which was mobilized during TA implementation.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
The regional TA financing was by JFPR. Japanese visibility was ensured through sharing Japan’s rich experience in customs modernization. Japanese resource persons presented at the workshops/events where Japanese organizations were engaged. These largely contributed to the success of the TA in achieving its intended outcome and outputs. The TA had close coordination and partnership with technical experts from relevant units of the WCO.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Lesson
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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Lesson
The TA project benefitted from a broad network of partners from the PRC and independent accountability mechanism that contributed to mobilizing a large number of workshop participants and to getting rich inputs to improve the quality of the initial draft of the regional framework.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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