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This is essential for all kinds of projects. The TCR could have cited specific instances where coordination with the resident missions produced favorable results at design and planning stage.

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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Lesson
The TCR could have indicated how the TA project resolved distinct challenges that involve regional integration issues to contribute to the better management of future knowledge building initiatives

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
If this TCR claims potential demand from other countries for similar TA projects, it could have provided evidence to support this. The TCR could have also highlighted what worked and what did not in the methodology used if similar TA projects would be replicated or lessons that could be useful in the follow-on TA project.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
This could still be improved by providing actual experiences involving operational departments that contributed to the improvement of the TA’s implementation.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
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This is a repetition of the previous lesson. It could have been improved by highlighting the importance of stakeholders’ role in regional trade integration, supported by actual experiences.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
The TCR could have mentioned whether or not governments would be allocating resources or other development partners would be funding projects that would contribute to the achievement of the TA project’s expected impact.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
When implementing an innovative TA project, seeking the support of different ADB departments, each with its own strengths, can help improve quality.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
For multiple year TA projects, it is important to regularly keep meeting with government counterparts to ensure that the TA project remains relevant to their needs, and to fine tune if their needs change. It is also important to build close relationships with nongovernment stakeholders as it can help mitigate the risks emanating from changing government priorities and policies.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
The follow-on TA project to support the implementation of some findings of this TA project is costed at $3 million.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
Close coordination with resident missions is essential to ensure that the TA project design meets client needs and is operationally relevant.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
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
Report Date:
Lesson
There is potential demand from other countries for similar TA projects, and the methodology created through it can be replicated in other countries.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
When a TA project is significantly different from what ADB has done before, and where therefore ADB and consultants have to collectively figure out how it will be implemented, a quality-based selection method may work better than a quality and cost-based selection. It gives teams the flexibility to choose the consultant who has the best experience and ideas, rather than one who is the least costly.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date:
Lesson
The TA project team built close partnerships with private sector bodies such as Confederation of Indian Industry and the Indo–Thai Chamber of Commerce, as well as with institutes such as Institute for SME Development. These partnerships were important in ensuring good design and successful implementation. The partnerships were also important in disseminating TA project findings to government counterparts.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
Report Date: