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Lesson
Careful examination of absorptive capacity is vital to ensuring that ADB loans are fully utilized and therefore are as beneficial as possible.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Lesson
Aside from loan capitalization, incentives need to be developed to encourage commercial banks to lend more to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Lesson
Implementation of agreed measures to mitigate the risks associated with foreign currency funding is critically important, particularly for financial intermediation loans that will be sub-lent in local currencies.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Lesson
Gender targets need to be clarified with PFIs during project processing and their attainment strengthened through direct implementation support, better communication, and capacity building.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Lesson
Having a simple environmental and social management system (ESMS) and an environmental staff in place in F1 financial intermediation loans will make implementation more efficient.

Project Number: 44060-025
Project Name: Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Program - Tranche 3 and Multitranche Financing Facility
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Lesson
Also, ensuring that approval is sought for changes in the indicators in the course of TA implementation is a good practice.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
Extension of the TA for one year due to foreseeable events would not have been necessary had the TA been designed more appropriately.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
On the output indicator, understanding of the underlying environment, including quality of data, through pre-investigative works could have ensured better design of TA outputs.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
Based on further information provided by ERCD, ensuring that adequate resources are allocated to finance important associated costs (e.g., hiring of dedicated staff to monitor use of proceeds and to ensure compliance with post-issuance reporting requirements) could help facilitate sustained increase in green bonds issuance.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
Based on further information provided by ERCD, understanding the additional costs (beyond external review fees) would help in identifying the reasons why there was no second-round issuance (which affects reputation if green status is lost) even though issuers have already invested heavily to establish proper internal system to monitor use of proceeds and provide post-issuance reporting.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
The outcome indicator should have been formulated more clearly and the outputs/activities planned to better ensure that it could deliver the targeted outcome.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
The way the lesson was formulated in the TCR could be improved (it is stated more like an issue rather than lesson learned). But lessons can be inferred that addressing reputational risk and additional costs for meeting green bonds requirements, ensuring a certain level of market maturity, and establishing clear regulations by market regulators are necessary conditions to the successful attainment of the TA objectives.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
Report Date:
Lesson
The way the lesson was formulated in the TCR could be improved (it is stated more like an issue rather than lesson learned). But a lesson could be inferred that ensuring individual DMC commitment upfront and awareness measures could seamlessly facilitate progress towards the attainment of the objective of the TA.

Project Number: 50057-001
Project Name: Promoting Green Local Currency-Denominated Bonds for Infrastructure Development in ASEAN+3
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Lesson
The TCR could have further discussed the benefits or disadvantages of having government agencies as local partners, such as the Policy Research Bureau of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, facilitate workshop organization and implementation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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Lesson
The TCR could have elaborated on the need for consultants to ably navigate (or be supported to navigate) the consultant management system to ensure timely closure of TA accounts.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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