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Lesson
Although interesting, this lesson learned does not provide a learning opportunity for future TAs. A more specific lesson could be that outputs delivered can provide a base for future interventions to build on, such as this TA’s trade portal, which is a tool to support investors and exporters.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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This is a useful lesson learned. Ensuring a clear implementation structure and limiting the number of implementing agencies help avoid implementation delays and changes to outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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This lesson learned is too broad to be able to provide guidance for other projects. A more specific lessoncould be that a strong support from the implementing agency is critical for increased stakeholder commitment, which contributes to the achievement of the TA’s outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Lesson
This is more of a description of achievements than a lesson learned. A more specific lesson could be that outputs delivered for one sector can also be applied to other sectors, thus providing lessons learned among different sectors and resulting in cost savings.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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This is a useful lesson learned. The lesson could have benefitted from specifying which outputs should have been grouped together under separate TA projects.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Lesson
This is more of a description of outputs/knowledge products produced than a lesson learned. A more specific lesson could be that ensuring that the knowledge products delivered under a TA are widely disseminated to allow for a learning experience is important. For example, this TA conducted assessments and ensured knowledge sharing by organizing an international forum and workshops.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Lesson
This lesson learned is too broad to be able to provide a lesson learned to other projects. A more specific lesson based on this TA’s implementing experience could be that ensuring a strong partnership and coordinating the implementation of activities with executing and implementing agencies, as well as donor partners, are critical for a successful TA, especially when there is a high staff turnover in the implementing agencies.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Lesson
Replication: Within ADB, the SDCD cost center has been established to develop GCF project proposals. Scaling up: It would require additional project preparation facilities, trust fund resources, and climate TA projects alongside ADB projects. Skills within SDCD have been developed but continue to rely on TA consultant support for implementation. The TCR, thus, recommended for a way forward.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Based on the TCR narrative, the TA prepared some technical documents and accessed new mechanisms for climate finance. The approved GCF proposals were examples. While the TA made some efforts to increase awareness and disseminate knowledge via the in-country consultations, there was no clear evidence or assessment that the target audience was more aware of the technical materials presented, and had adopted the same, thereby, building institutional capacity. Adopting national or sectoral policies or legal standards, or any academic literature was not mentioned in the TCR.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
This validation adds the need to adopt a more realistic timeline where funding sources are uncertain or unknown.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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This validation adds that pioneering the GCF proposals with a strong SDCD team, like in Mongolia, will provide a sound template and be an effective way to demonstrate success for the subsequent proposals.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
This section in the TCR presents several findings including that increased readiness for finance access is different from the actual capacity to access finance and is highly context-specific to the type of project for which finance is required, the sources of finance being tapped, and individual DMC priorities and circumstances—this is a generalizable lesson in planning and relates to having some degree of flexibility to adapt to the evolving context given that this is a new area of work for the ADB as well as the DMCs.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
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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Lesson
Early engagement with ADB project teams to frame projects as climate relevant, as well as early engagement with external climate finance providers facilitated mobilization of timely resources—this lesson on early and proactive engagement is generalizable for implementation and delivery. Although it may be inferred, no clear evidence is provided for the value added of promoting knowledge exchange among DMCs.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
The TCR mentioned the usefulness of a flexible approach to drafting consultant’s terms of reference such that they are broad based—this is a generalizable lesson in managing staff and consultant resources, and useful in the context of limited availability of climate finance specialists.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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