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It is important to strengthen partnerships with government agencies and other stakeholders across priority sectors, involving them in dialogues in aid of better development planning and to support program and project identification and targeting.

Project Number: 52006-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Country Programming and Portfolio Management
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Stakeholder coordination and involvement and their buy-in of programs and projects is critical to improving portfolio performance and management.

Project Number: 52006-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Country Programming and Portfolio Management
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Enhancing capacity on country programming and project implementation is essential, requiring well-defined knowledge products and services (KPSs). Knowledge gained from these KPSs, including good understanding of ADB operations, needs to be mainstreamed in implementing and executing agenciesto enhanceimplementation effectiveness and efficiency.

Project Number: 52006-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Country Programming and Portfolio Management
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TA relevance increased during implementation because of ADB’s responsiveness to real-time requests from the government. Regular country programming missions, consultation meetings, and tripartite portfolio review meetings provided effective avenues for ADB to be more responsive to clients. Responses to government requests should be matched by a scrutiny of the accompanying necessary changes in the results chain and the DMF overall, including performance indicators, targets, data source, and reporting mechanism.

Project Number: 52006-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Country Programming and Portfolio Management
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Support by the competent focal staff in the executing and implementing agencies is critical to smooth TA implementation. The implementation of this TA was challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions in 2020. Nonetheless, it was successfully completed because of adequate support from focal staff in the project agencies.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Close collaboration among ADB’s regional departments that support subregional programs and broad participation these subregional programs and their member countries, (i.e. the Central Asia Regional Economic Corridor, the Greater Mekong Subregion program, and the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation program), and development partners are critical in successfully implementing ECD-focused TA. These have helped improve the content and focus of the ECD guidance note produced by the TA.helped improve the ECD guidance note.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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Early engagement with DMCs in knowledge-sharing activities is advisable for TA with comprehensive and complex topics. For this TA, it could have facilitated in-depth discussion and debate among DMCs and development partners on the new concept of ECD, lessons learned from ECD initiatives, and ECD pipeline development.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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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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Aligning TA knowledge products and services to government report formats and management notes facilitates their use by government agencies and other stakeholders. Derivative products, such as shorter policy briefs and policy discussions, will increase the uptake of the knowledge and recommendations generated by the TA.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Close interaction between international and national consultant experts, as encouraged by government counterparts in this TA, helps enhance the quality and local ownership of TA outputs.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Inviting borrower representatives such as key personnel from the ministries of finance and government auditors to act as resource speakesr enrich training discussions and hence must be continued. Close coordination with borrowers on selecting the appropriate participants to the seminars should also continue to ensure effectiveness. Target satisfaction rate should be raised to 80% in line with ADB corporate-wide target satisfaction rate for knowledge products.

Project Number: 46534-004
Project Name: Disbursement Capacity Building for Developing Member Countries
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The structure of the TA as knowledge support TA is appropriate to deliver ADB disbursement seminars and trainings to DMCs.

Project Number: 46534-004
Project Name: Disbursement Capacity Building for Developing Member Countries
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The average size of 35 participants and duration of 2-3 days is appropriate while larger DMCs with large number of participants may have longer duration. With the momentum in 2023-2024 of the multilateral development banks forum for disbursement harmonization, cofinancing and related collaborations, and its impact on DMC capacity building and efficiency improvements, the scope of the TA needs to be expanded. Due to inflation, future TA size is expected to go beyond small-scale technical assistance of $225,000.

Project Number: 46534-004
Project Name: Disbursement Capacity Building for Developing Member Countries
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implementation anchored in a national law. Some output targets—building technical skills and institutional capacity, engaging with SME participants, facilitating the adoption of new processes, and institutionalizing the changes—required a longer time for effective implementation.

Project Number: 44057-012, 44057-013
Project Name: Second Private Sector and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Realistic timelines are essential, given government agency capacities and the institutional, policy, and behavioral changes required. Introducing new regulatory frameworks required a sequential building-block approach, from diagnostics to pilot implementation, expansion of pilots, and national

Project Number: 44057-012, 44057-013
Project Name: Second Private Sector and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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