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Relationship building by ADB with the government and other stakeholders and continuity in the team managing the TA are critical components of smooth and successful TA implementation. The TA experienced problems at the onset that continued throughout implementation. There was a lack of teamwork and coordination between ADB, the DRC, and the TA consultants. The TA changed hands five times at ADB due to staff mobility.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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The contracted level of inputs of the consultants were fully utilized, but there were no final reports submitted. It may be worthwhile considering milestone payments instead of time-based contracts to help the TA officer control the progress and quality of deliverables.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Research to inform policy needs to be carefully planned and designed with a realistic scope and precise focus to achieve useful results. Research under Output 3 combined a literature review and internet search with interviews with manufacturing sector organizations in the United States and the European Union. However, the TA team had difficulty obtaining meaningful replies to advance the study. In the TA consultant report, the team acknowledged that they may have asked the wrong questions.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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The TA would have benefited from having an officially designated implementing agency instead of having assigned the dual, de facto role to the executing agency—particularly one that is situated at the ministerial (State Council) level of government. The DRC, by virtue of its stature and function, would not have the capacity nor expected responsibility to supervise and monitor day-to-day TA activities at the project level. Simply assigning staff from its two departments to work with the TA team may not be the best recourse.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Adequate flexibilities in project design and implementation to manage unexpected situations and meet reasonable requirements from the government, cofinanciers, and/or development partners are important to realize smooth progress and timely completion of reconstruction.

Project Number: 48192-001
Project Name: Cyclone Ian Recovery Project
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The use of an imprest account for regular and quick reimbursements of claims can effectively keep contractors/consultants satisfied and engaged, and therefore, avoid the risk of progress delay and/or cost overruns.

Project Number: 48192-001
Project Name: Cyclone Ian Recovery Project
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The PRC’s energy market is dominated by government oversight and regulation, rather than market principles; flexibility is therefors required to adapt project implementation to evolving market conditions and government priorities.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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It is essential to adopt an appropriate monitoring framework with relevant indicators to measure project results.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The broad range of enterprises and technologies requires commercial banks to expand their knowledge and understanding of energy efficiency technologies to broaden project origination and monitoring skills.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technical advisory and capacity building are critical in ensuring that commercial banks are able to assess risks and returns associated with energy efficiency investments.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Financial intermediation arrangements can help build energy efficiency lending portfolios of commercial banks.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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It is important in designing a project that a more realistic assessment of the expected roles and responsibilities of the executing agencies and project management units is undertaken to establish the capacities of the entities.

Project Number: 42182-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development and Network Expansion and Rehabilitation for Remote Communes Sector Project
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Devoting sufficient attention to the gender action plan and ethnic minority development plan during project implementation through resource support and provision of expertise could result in substantial results on the performance of the p

Project Number: 42182-013
Project Name: Renewable Energy Development and Network Expansion and Rehabilitation for Remote Communes Sector Project
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The knowledge partnership with the APEC Climate Center (Busan, Republic of Korea) contributed to the incorporation of updated and highly reliable historical and projected climate data and information, and climate scenarios into the SARD RS-GIS based Climate and Disaster Risk Resilience Decision Support System. It also contributed practical strategies to mitigate the impacts and consequences of climate disasters and natural hazards, and to formulate the most appropriate climate change adaptation/mitigation measures for South Asia DMCs.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Despite a few changes in ADB staff managing and supervising it, the TA benefited from engaging a core set of consultants who provided the institutional memory and worked closely together to undertake specialized yet interrelated assignments, ensuring work consistency, and timely delivery of quality outputs. In the participating South Asia DMCs, the TA accommodated the in-country project management protocols and, thus, enjoyed full support from the respective partner national focal agencies, including inputs from expert-level working groups and guidance from project steering committees.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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