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Timelines for policy changes and major reforms should also be realistic, knowing that building understanding and ownership can take time and the passage of legislation can be a lengthy process. Two municipalities declined to participate in the project because of their objection to the transfer of ownership and management of assets to a state government agency.

Project Number: 35448-013
Project Name: Omnibus Infrastructure Development Project
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Strong government institutional capacity is critical to scaling up. In this case, IREDA’s risk exposure impacted the TA’s original plan and alternative mechanisms had to be found.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Demonstrating the success of pilots can help governments to take further scaled up action.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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The readiness and capacity of the wider ecosystem matters. Hence, PPTA’s should also consider local supply chains and other supporting infrastructure that are vital for ensuring that pilots are replicable, scalable, and sustainable.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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This is more of a description of the new phase of PRIF than a lesson or recommendation identified from the completed phase.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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Institutional capacity building and successful demonstration of pilots provide a strong foundation for scaling up efforts to mainstream climate adaptation and/or mitigation into national policies and programs. This also requires supportive national institutional leadership and streamlined coordination to sustain outcomes.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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ADB could have put in place mechanisms for TA findings to be linked to future investments, so that these could either be replicated or scaled up.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Complex undertakings like a regional energy information system and database are better suited for a different form of TA than a small-scale CDTA.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Replication of the TA initiative in other regions with untapped cross-border resources in the energy sector or other sectors, can open new opportunities for development, cooperation, and expansion.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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Cross-border collaboration provides opportunity for knowledge sharing and adoption of successful initiatives in similar contexts is often the case with neighboring countries.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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Following the Kazakh experience, in 2019, the “Power the Future” program of the United States Agency for International Development provided two PowerFactory licenses each to Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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For a policy and advisory TA targeting a particular sector/industry, it is very important that practitioners and stakeholders in the related sector/industry are engaged through knowledge-sharing and capacity building events, whereby positive experience and good practices on the ground the TA identified can be replicated and potentially scaled up in the sector/industry.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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The need for the establishment of a regional energy information system and database (with regional energy efficiency and conservation data, EE appliances, EE benchmarks, etc.) is considered essential in the context of a SASEC initiative that would provide baselines for determining the impacts of EE programs undertaken in the future.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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A subsequent phase with an approved budget of $9.09 million was approved on 3 October 2019. An increase in TA amount and minor change in scope memo is being processed by the user unit to include a $2 million contribution from the United States. This will be the first contribution from the United States.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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Due to target achieved ahead of schedule under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, the government has set a new ambitious target of achieving 100 GW of solar power by 2022.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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