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Regular training and dissemination on this activity, among others, helped keep the momentum on regional energy cooperation.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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The technical report on EE was disseminated in several forums (Bangkok and Manila). Based on the TA output, SAEN and the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department are currently collaborating to publish a technical report on Energy Efficiency in South Asia: Opportunities for Energy Sector Transformation.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The PPTA findings were disseminated as a publication through the ADB website which allowed easy access to various interested parties.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Participants from SASEC member countries and the transmission utilities provided good feedback on the workshops and/or study tour that were undertaken under the TA.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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The findings/results and lessons learned from TA activities were disseminated within ADB via in-house seminars and more widely via knowledge sharing events (trainings, workshops, seminars) in the participating South Asia DMCs.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Collaborations with DMCs’ officials through two technical workshops on monitoring short-term economic growth provided forums for knowledge sharing among DMCs and with ADB on how the monitoring is conducted in different places. These activities have proven to be valuable avenues for knowledge_x005F_x0002_building activity that strengthened the capacity of ADB and DMCs to conduct macroeconomic assessment and reinforced the importance of keeping the tool kit up to date to ensure ADB’s relevance and value addition in policy dialogues.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Promoting knowledge exchange and sharing of lessons learned from successful climate financing applications is important in a context of very limited experience with innovative climate finance mechanisms.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Employ a “learning-by-doing” approach jointly with DMC stakeholders when developing climate-funding applications, including very close interaction between DMC stakeholders and proposal preparation consultants, is effective for knowledge building.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Pursuing pilot innovations and knowledge solutions resulted in the integration of new agendas into design of lending operations such as gender_x005F_x0002_based violence, women’s employment in the renewable energy sector, women’s leadership in water utilities and narrowing gender gaps in skills nontraditional sectors among others. The TA demonstrated the essentiality of collection of solid gender data in preparing a good project design through evidence-based planning.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Involving key stakeholders at all stages of the TA project design, implementation, and post-implementation helps build ownership and goes a long way toward ensuring impact and sustainability. This can be done in a low-cost manner through small workshops and building partnerships.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Knowledge sharing on the AMF should be supported by a national government agency for it to be effective. The development of the national AMF in the PRC moved forward because a key policy regulatory agency led it with support from the TA project.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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Based on the findings of the study under the TA, market participants and regulators in ASEAN+3 countries identified the absence of a linkage between national goals to improve the environment (as reflected in national commitments associated with the UN SDGs) and the development of green bond markets. There is low awareness of green bonds among issuers and investors in most ASEAN+3 countries. Many market participants are unfamiliar with green bonds and through the middle of 2017, those with some awareness often had only a cursory understanding.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+4
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There are some knowledge gaps on ICT among ADB operational departments, which resulted in nonoptimal quality in project design. To address this gap, first, the TA project compiled past, ongoing, and pipelined ICT projects and built an ICT project database. Second, the TA project started to send monthly e-newsletters updating ADB staff on ICT trends and activities collected from other development banks across the globe.

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