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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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Collaborating with a wider network of stakeholders which may sometimes be time consuming certainly improves the quality of results.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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India, Indonesia and the PRC all expressed the need for capacity building TA project and support to tailor the generic accountability mechanism framework to their country situation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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Knowledge sharing on the AMF should be supported by a national government agency for it to be effective. The development of the national AMF in the PRC moved forward because a key policy regulatory agency led it with support from the TA project.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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For a TA project that is policy-related, buy-in of target countries is very important in realizing the outputs and results.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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It is not only the competence of consultants that is important but also their ability to navigate the consultant management system that determines timely closure of TA accounts.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The three-country experience showed replication and scaling up depends on country context and government buy-in.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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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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Having local partners (e.g., in the PRC) facilitate workshop organization and implementation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The use of individual consultants allowed the selection of consultants with specific skills to successfully complete the work. The active participation of ADB’s headquarters-based staff was key to the TA’s success––headquarters staff were actively involved in the TA and joined for at least a part in all the missions.

Project Number: 50311-001
Project Name: Education Sector Assessment
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Partnership with nongovernment organizations (NGOs) was helpful to the success of the TA. The TA used two NGOs––the Karachi-based Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development, and the Lahore-based Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives––to (i) organize and host workshops to solicit the views of sector stakeholders, and (ii) undertake peer review of the sector assessments produced under the TA.

Project Number: 50311-001
Project Name: Education Sector Assessment
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Other TA resources were allocated to support the preparation of the two projects identified as a result of the TA.

Project Number: 50311-001
Project Name: Education Sector Assessment
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The general nature of the TA outputs was helpful as it allowed the specific area of focus for the sector assessments to be determined based on discussions with the respective provincial governments and with the federal government. TA extensions allowed the TA to be (nearly) fully utilized and contributed to the preparation of the SSEIP.

Project Number: 50311-001
Project Name: Education Sector Assessment
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