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Technical assistance with a narrow focus, immediate policy relevance, and carried out with national champions with financial and/or planning authority was key to the successful integration of climate technologies in country investment plans. Careful and realistic planning is required for the production and dissemination of outputs, since this involves multiple institutions within a given timeframe.

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Project Name: Climate Change Fund, 2008–2019
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Institutional capacity development on climate change in ADB’s DMCs requires long-term engagement. Just over half of CCF resources went toward capacity development. The lack of basic climate data, technical expertise, and qualified local staff in many DMCs means that some processes, especially baseline studies, vulnerability assessments, and cost–benefit analysis of mitigation and adaptation measures, have to be adjusted to reflect realities on the ground.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Climate Change Fund, 2008–2019
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The strategic oversight of funds is enhanced when their governance structure includes some form of third-party engagement. The original Board paper outlined the governance structure of CCF and included at its apex ADB and external financing partners, whose function would be to provide strategic direction to the CCF and to meet ADB for annual consultations and to review progress, administration, and the annual work program. Since there are no external financing partners, ADB sits alone at the apex of the governance structure.

Project Number: No PN
Project Name: Climate Change Fund, 2008–2019
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The TA was successful in delivering knowledge products. One international forum and three workshops were organized to present three sector assessments and wine sector case study. The TA delivered a comprehensive innovation strategy, covering innovation, science and technology with clear roadmap and action plan. The TA also helped conduct an impact assessment, prepare and publish a research paper. The TA also funded a study tour for EIAA staff.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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The selection and use of individual consultants with specific skills allowed to timely achieve some of the planned outputs. The previously developed Terms of References (TORs) for the industrial economist and innovation expert were, however, challenging. As it was evident during the implementation, the requirements for industrial economist included a broad range of skills and requirements in specific sectors, which could not have been achieved without recruitment of resource persons with narrow skills.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Staff turnover in implementing agencies created challenges during the project implementation. Strong partnership with executing and implementing agencies, as well as with donor partners, allowed to coordinate the activities and contributed to achieving outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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The TA outputs have provided a base on which future interventions could be tailored. This includes the government support for implementation of innovation strategy roadmap, resources allocated for new export insurance products, as well as the MOE commitment to maintain and further develop the trade portal as a tool to support investors and exporters.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Too many implementing agencies and different counterparts for different components have contributed to the delays and changes. Diversity and number of implementing and counterpart agencies should be taken into account when designing new TA projects and should be limited to up to two.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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The TA relied heavily on stakeholders and partners to deliver its outputs and outcome. Despite some initial delays during the implementation, the strong support of the executing agency towards the end of the TA implementation eventually increased commitment and clearly contributed to the achievement of the outputs of the TA.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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All TA outputs have been well received by the government. The sector assessments for wine, textile and footwear, conducted under the TA, can be replicated for other sectors of the economy as well. The TA was instrumental for developing and introducing new export insurance products. The model and structure of the innovation strategy developed under the TA, and covering the innovation, science and technology, could be replicated by other government agencies as a template for the strategies in other sectors. The strategy is expected to be approved by the government by the end of 2020.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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The TA design and its outputs were an amalgam of diverse activities. Most of these outputs could have been managed under separate TA projects.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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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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Working closely with government ministries can help tailor the capacity building workshops to the learning needs of the participants, as there appears to be a strong interest in acquiring enhanced monitoring techniques.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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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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Conducting an exploratory TA like this one results in evolvement of the nature of work that requires continuous extension to the ongoing work. The cost savings from hiring the international consultants have allowed the TA to expand the work without having to request for an additional funding. In addition, engaging ADB staff directly in working on the research topics was a critical element to ensure that the knowledge and capacity grows within ADB as a knowledge bank.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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