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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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Regular and consistent monitoring during the preparation of initial environmental examination documents, environmental impact assessments, environmental management plans, remedial action plan, and gender action plan is critical, and should include an audit report during submission to ensure not only compliance with guidelines but also adequacy of consultations with minutes of proceedings. This avoids any critical issues from surfacing that would affect project design and implementation timeline.

Project Number: 42414-043
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 3
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Timely reassessment can be instrumental to project success. After the project was approved, a series of devastating storms caused severe damage in the project area. The timely engagement of a consulting firm to revise the project design helped avoid project delays. Project interventions were revised based on the additional rehabilitation needs and the new evidence about potential impacts of storms on the coastline.

Project Number: 42414-044
Project Name: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 4
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Agreed. A useful lesson is the importance of partnering with other knowledge institutions to tap expertise and efficiently use financial resources.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Another internal lesson could be that when introducing additional funding midway through implementation—such as the TASF in this project—the TA needs to closely plan and monitor activities so that the overall TA project implementation is not delayed.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The key lesson for ADB is to assess partner capacity and provide detailed guidance on operational procedures to manage expectations and to make the partnership effective.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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In this TA, the Central and West Asia Department. collaborated effectively with the East Asia Department and the Development and Climate Change Department. A lesson from this would be: In a regional TA, application of the "One-ADB" approach can be particularly effective.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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External NDF cofinancing and GCF climate finance partnerships were referenced here, and lessons provided were very broad, and not supported by evidence in the TCR. Internal ADB partnerships were not mentioned in the TCR, which would be important for encouraging broader adoption and sustainability of respective DMCs’ TA efforts via the country dialogue processes.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Accessing additional professional and technical resources was helpful in contributing to the success of the TA. In particular, the involvement of technical experts from the WCO enhanced the provision of technical support and enabled the TA to develop methodologies (TRS, JCC). In addition, the use of Japanese resource persons enabled the TA to draw on country practices in customs modernization and visibility improvement. These lessons could be relevant to other JFPR-funded TA projects as well.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Partnership with institutions, like the International Monetary Fund and those from developed counterparts like the Bank of Italy, has enabled us to work together and tap relevant expertise.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Close exchange with the GCF Secretariat as well as with other multilateral development banks and development partners accredited to the GCF has been helpful for understanding the investment criteria of climate financiers. The TA benefited from cofinancing by the NDF which was mobilized during TA implementation.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The regional TA financing was by JFPR. Japanese visibility was ensured through sharing Japan’s rich experience in customs modernization. Japanese resource persons presented at the workshops/events where Japanese organizations were engaged. These largely contributed to the success of the TA in achieving its intended outcome and outputs. The TA had close coordination and partnership with technical experts from relevant units of the WCO.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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When building a new partnership, it is important to carefully assess partners’ capacity, provide prior guidance on ADB’s required procedures and expectations, and select the right partnership modalities to avoid the unexpectedly high transaction costs to make the partnership work.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The TA project benefitted from a broad network of partners from the PRC and independent accountability mechanism that contributed to mobilizing a large number of workshop participants and to getting rich inputs to improve the quality of the initial draft of the regional framework.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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ADB recognizes the need to leverage strategic knowledge partnerships for learning, capacity building, and innovation. It is particularly so in the areas of emerging technologies. The knowledge partnerships have been leveraged to tap into the expertise, resources, and networks of these organizations. For example, ADB joined the Global Partnership Network on Identification and jointly endorsed the Declaration of Common Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development on 11 January 2017.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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