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Infrastructure sustainability and resilience are not only a concern for future generations, but can also have an immediate material impact on economic performance and risk profiles of single investments and projects.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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MEE noted that while the PRC and governments of partner countries shall promote legal frameworks to foster sustainability of infrastructure investments, greater efforts shall be made by companies, enterprises, civil society organizations, and international agencies, including international financial institutions.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Stronger coordination among the ADB teams and divisions in the TA design phase is paramount to ensure timeliness and stronger policy coherence with the activities of ADB’s regional cooperation program (e.g., CAREC workshop/conference).

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Some of the key messages from the final TA workshop held in Beijing in December 2018 included: The importance of investment banks in regulating the environmental policies of construction and infrastructure industries (highlighted by the Deputy Secretary General of the Green Finance Committee of the China Society for Finance and Banking, during his presentation on the policies and requirements for environmental safeguards adopted by investment banks worldwide and trends in the PRC).

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Seeking further synergies with ADB’s Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) and Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) programs can contribute to greener infrastructure development in the region. The TA’s potential to foster regional cooperation integration was not fully explored due to lack of planning and coordination with the CAREC initiatives at the design stage. The project team tried to remedy this shortcoming by conducting a larger final workshop event in December 2018 with the CAREC guests.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Lessons learned from the TA are outlined as follows: need for establishment of stronger linkages with other ADB regional departments for wider dissemination of results and increased facilitation of best practice exchange in Asia and the Pacific region.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Lessons learned from the TA are outlined as follows: need for closer coordination among ADB, consultants, and the executing agency on well-defined expectations for wide topics such as the ones belonging to the TA subject.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Moving forward, key outputs of the TA could be shared with CAREC countries, using the CAREC initiatives as a vehicle for knowledge and best practices dissemination across the region.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Active participation of female professionals, with leading roles such as panelists or session moderators, should be encouraged and sought for in future conferences to address. gender balance in a more substantial way

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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More frequent ADB review missions ( at least twice or more per year) are required to monitor and improve the implementation of subprojects, with the executing and implementing agencies required to understand and comply with implementation guidelines in the project administration manual.

Project Number: 42012-013
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration Project
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The geographical location of subprojects should be considered in project packaging. S

Project Number: 42012-013
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration Project
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Deviation from the project administration guidelines creates confusion about who is responsible for implementing the subprojects and what procurement guidelines to use; it also creates problems in monitoring project implementation.

Project Number: 42012-013
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration Project
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Technical assistance with a narrow focus, immediate policy relevance, and carried out with national champions with financial and/or planning authority was key to the successful integration of climate technologies in country investment plans. Careful and realistic planning is required for the production and dissemination of outputs, since this involves multiple institutions within a given timeframe.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Climate Change Fund, 2008–2019
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Institutional capacity development on climate change in ADB’s DMCs requires long-term engagement. Just over half of CCF resources went toward capacity development. The lack of basic climate data, technical expertise, and qualified local staff in many DMCs means that some processes, especially baseline studies, vulnerability assessments, and cost–benefit analysis of mitigation and adaptation measures, have to be adjusted to reflect realities on the ground.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Climate Change Fund, 2008–2019
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The strategic oversight of funds is enhanced when their governance structure includes some form of third-party engagement. The original Board paper outlined the governance structure of CCF and included at its apex ADB and external financing partners, whose function would be to provide strategic direction to the CCF and to meet ADB for annual consultations and to review progress, administration, and the annual work program. Since there are no external financing partners, ADB sits alone at the apex of the governance structure.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Climate Change Fund, 2008–2019
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