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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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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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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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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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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 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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Based on the findings of the study under the TA, market participants and regulators in ASEAN+3 countries identified the absence of a linkage between national goals to improve the environment (as reflected in national commitments associated with the UN SDGs) and the development of green bond markets. There is low awareness of green bonds among issuers and investors in most ASEAN+3 countries. Many market participants are unfamiliar with green bonds and through the middle of 2017, those with some awareness often had only a cursory understanding.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+4
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Furthermore, clear regulatory guidance from relevant market regulators are seen as key to promote sustainable finance in ASEAN+3.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+4
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They also identified a lack of local currency green bond issues and the absence of investors with responsible investment mandates as reasons for the immaturity of green bond markets.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+4
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There are concerns on the additional costs associated with green bond issuances, as well as reputational risk if their bonds lose their green status

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+4
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Preparing the terms of reference, finding good consultants, and managing the consultants’ outputs are not easy tasks for most ADB staff who don’t have previous experience on ICT projects. Taking advantage of the SDCC-DT’s position as a coordination unit for ICT in operation, the TA project helped compile ADB’s ongoing and planned ICT projects and proactively approached the project officers proposing technical support to operational departments. The TA project mobilized ICT experts, both individual and/or consulting firms, in consideration of the nature of the technical assistance required.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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