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Well designed and adequately resourced technical assistance is critical in helping governments with limited technical capacity deliver a complex set of reforms. This is demonstrated by the broadening of the tax base by implementing the goods and services tax. Collected revenue doubled during 2012–2016 with the help of sustained and targeted support from ADB starting in 2010.

Project Number: 39658-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Program
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Successful privatization of state-owned enterprises requires strong political commitment and government ownership. The new government failed to carry forward the privatization program articulated in the report and recommendation of the President. This underlines the need for such reforms to be based on broad stakeholder consultations, and the importance of a high degree of political consensus on the goals and process of the reform.

Project Number: 39658-013
Project Name: Economic Recovery Program
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The need for ADB to focus more on sectors in which it has substantial experience, from which it can draw from during the relatively fast pace of processing and implementing an emergency project. Also, given limited resources, sector selectivity is important to ensure a significant impact. Moreover, emergency project designs should likewise incorporate provisions for O&M of project facilities to ensure their sustainability.

Project Number: 39099-013
Project Name: Tsunami Emergency Assistance Project
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Stakeholder support is essential for increasing awareness and acceptance of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). To ensure the sustainability of the project's achievements, the government must provide continuing financial and human resources support to increase awareness and acceptance of TVET, particularly in the form of career guidance and social marketing.

Project Number: 33217-013
Project Name: Employment Skills Training Project
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Timely selection and training of project staff is essential for effective implementation. The delayed establishment and operationalization of the project implementation unit prevented activities from being properly sequenced during the first 2 years of project implementation.

Project Number: 33217-013
Project Name: Employment Skills Training Project
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The establishment of a dynamic labor management information system would have been useful in gathering relevant information for guiding the employment sector councils in identifying high demand occupations and developing competency-based skills trainings that are demand driven. Also, such as a system would have provided important information to support policy-related decision making, planning, and interagency cooperation and coordination and helped determine and quantify project achievements.

Project Number: 33217-013
Project Name: Employment Skills Training Project
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The relevant stakeholders (i.e., various ministries, agencies, employers, training providers, youth, parents, schools, and communities) are often unaware of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and its various features and components, and continued efforts to bring them onboard must be made through interagency cooperation and coordination, workplace visits, and promotional campaigns in schools and communities.

Project Number: 33217-013
Project Name: Employment Skills Training Project
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It is important to establish and maintain a network for cooperation in competency standards development within the region where similar issues and problems regarding the promotion of technical and vocational education and training and development of competency standards prevail. Benefits from this approach include facilitated adoption and adaptation of established standards, which may be applicable to Maldivian requirements, as well as the mutual sharing of ideas, processes, competency standards, and materials on skills training.

Project Number: 33217-013
Project Name: Employment Skills Training Project
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