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The TA results demonstrate the need for close coordination among development partners and with local civil society organizations not only during implementation but also at the project preparatory phase.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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The designation of the Workforce Development Center as focal agency for the SFK was appropriate. However, its participation in the TA was delayed because of lengthy procedures. For future similar TA projects, ADB should carefully assess government counterpartss readiness, ownership, and capacity to deliver planned outputs and also request toassign properly authorized representatives in the TA implementation units.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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It is important to build awareness on the SFK in the rural areas to increase their uptake and benefits from the initiative.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Regular meetings with management teams allow the timely identification of project needs and monitoring of TA implementation. Close collaboration with development enhances TA implementation, e.g., the generation of inputs from the United Nations Development Programme to consultants’ terms of reference in this TA helped promote the efficacious delivery of outputs .

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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TA implementation could be more challenging due to the involvement of different stakeholders. For future similar TA projects, it is recommended that ADB consider direct financing and independent administration. This will put implementation and consultants’ recruitment under project team control.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Proactive consultations and policy dialogue with development partners enable the identification and avoidance of potential duplications in technical assistance and other projects. The project team designed the TA based on a request from the Ministry of National Economy to support the government’s effort in fighting COVID-19 impacts. However, the project team observed potential duplications between the scope of the Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan (SFK) and support measures taken by the government and development partners.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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It is important for projects engaging many consultants to have a clear record of what was delivered and why the scope of contracts was changed or reduced. The firm’s final report should summarize the key deliverables and their usage. It is also important to undertake a structured turnover process especially to submit TA documentation sharing insights, best practices, and lessons from the TA experience.

Project Number: 52013-001
Project Name: Research University Sector Development Program
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Despite odds, it is not impossible for TA projects to collect the necessary information to prepare ensuing projects. The TA scope and implementation arrangements had been changed to adapt to the changing context arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, it was able to gather all the requisite information to prepare the ensuing project.

Project Number: 52013-001
Project Name: Research University Sector Development Program
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An exogenous shock such as the COVID-19 pandemic can significantly affect TA execution and associated plans and government priorities. When that happens, it will be useful to pause TA implementation, revisit the processing timeline, take sufficient time to observe and discuss with the executing agency, and make adjustment where possible. The TA was well aligned with strategy documents at national and ADB level.

Project Number: 52013-001
Project Name: Research University Sector Development Program
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Current TA rating methodologies, which require reaching certain budget expenditure levels, can disincentivize appropriate cost management and encourage prioritizing budget use over project objectives.

Project Number: 55035-001
Project Name: Research for Demonstration of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies in Industrial Sectors of Yunnan Province
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Bridging language barriers by using international experts that speak the language of the client (in this case Mandarin Chinese) can significantly increase stakeholder participation, ownership, and value addition of the project.

Project Number: 55035-001
Project Name: Research for Demonstration of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies in Industrial Sectors of Yunnan Province
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Cost-conscious implementation can deliver high value TA activities and not waste valuable funding like the Technical Assistance Special Fund.

Project Number: 55035-001
Project Name: Research for Demonstration of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies in Industrial Sectors of Yunnan Province
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Hybrid training activities, particularly in the People's Republic of China, can have a multiplier effect by helping reach many more participants than traditional ones due to large numbers involved.

Project Number: 55035-001
Project Name: Research for Demonstration of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies in Industrial Sectors of Yunnan Province
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Continuous monitoring and fluent communication with the consulting team coordinator can ensure on-time delivery, particularly when using teams of individual consultants.

Project Number: 55035-001
Project Name: Research for Demonstration of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies in Industrial Sectors of Yunnan Province
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Using individual consultants and resource persons provides flexibility in contract implementation. A summary recording of pertinent contract data must be kept updated to support efficient consultant management.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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