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Collaborations with DMCs’ officials through two technical workshops on monitoring short-term economic growth provided forums for knowledge sharing among DMCs and with ADB on how the monitoring is conducted in different places. These activities have proven to be valuable avenues for knowledge_x005F_x0002_building activity that strengthened the capacity of ADB and DMCs to conduct macroeconomic assessment and reinforced the importance of keeping the tool kit up to date to ensure ADB’s relevance and value addition in policy dialogues.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Conducting an exploratory TA like this one results in evolvement of the nature of work that requires continuous extension to the ongoing work. The cost savings from hiring the international consultants have allowed the TA to expand the work without having to request for an additional funding. In addition, engaging ADB staff directly in working on the research topics was a critical element to ensure that the knowledge and capacity grows within ADB as a knowledge bank.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Knowledge sharing was done primarily through regional workshops attended by the Pacific DMCs.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The project was completed with strong support from field offices.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The trade facilitation component was relatively more challenging to implement mainly because it requires the government agencies to conduct additional data surveys over and above their regular workload. The recommendations tend to be related to institutional, policy and regulatory measures, which are traditionally more difficult to influence and change as compared to providing assistance in physical infrastructure.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The TA was scaled-up quite significantly from $2 million to $3.9 million. This enabled the project team to be responsive to client’s demands by drawing on the same consulting services to support on multiple technical studies.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Utilization of the same consultant team in supporting processing of a number of maritime projects enabled an efficient means of transferring knowledge on common challenges, such as incorporation of best practices on climate change and disaster resilience into project design. The TA facilitated policy dialogue amongst the DMCs, leading to development of several projects that were incorporated in the respective country partnership strategies.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Cofinancing partner was updated regularly on key milestones and developments of the TA.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The regional workshops conducted under the TA has proven to be an effective means of engaging with the DMCs to share knowledge generated through the TA, and to maintain policy dialogue to co-create investment project pipeline.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Clear delineation of country activities with transparent funding allocations in cross-border RCI TA projects involving several countries helps smooth implementation and increase project success. The transaction costs in cross-border RCI TA projects tend to be high both in terms of resources and the time required to achieve agreement among stakeholders in the participating countries. It takes much longer to negotiate and agree to a common proposal in a cross-border RCI TA project than in a usual TA project.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund, 2007–2019
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Active engagement of national stakeholders and ADB resident missions from the outset helps improve ownership and project success. The likelihood of success is greater when an RCIF TA project is designed with genuine consultation with concerned line ministries, national agencies, the private sector (if relevant), and ADB resident missions. Active engagement of in-country stakeholders helps ADB to identify binding constraints and solutions, and to internalize implementation challenges at the TA design stage. This makes clear the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund, 2007–2019
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Early engagement with ADB project teams during the project design stage allows for more effective framing of projects as climate-relevant, as well as the inclusion of climate-relevant project components, which facilitate the mobilization of climate finance.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The TA showed the benefits of employing a flexible approach to provision of support, including consultant terms of reference which were suitable for hiring consultants to carry out a broad range of activities. There are also benefits to work closely with the team of consultants ensuring timely delivery and quality of outputs.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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After direct requests from DMCs to ADB to assist them with climate finance access, the TA was responsive to the evolving needs of DMCs related to the financing of their climate commitments under the UNFCCC which were not necessarily (yet) included in their country partnership strategy.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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As a consequence of this TA, a cost center has been established in SDCD, which allows ADB, inter alia, to continue to develop project proposals for submission to GCF. ADB’s Pacific Regional Department has since implemented TAs that can support the generation of climate finance proposals in conjunction with ADB projects.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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