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It is important to keep a good balance between the subprojects or activities that are innovative but riskier and those that have firm disbursement schedules, so that the risk of TA implementation failure would be minimized. Subprojects to work with cities or municipalities turned out to be unpredictable, driven significantly by the political economy situation of the counterpart and are likely to face delays.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Documenting the replication experience is crucial. Part of the TA fund was successfully used for replicating and scaling up the existing models (e.g., ethnic minority women-led community road maintenance, integration of domestic violence survivor shelters in urban projects) and the experience has been turned into useful knowledge products.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The TA design that is fully aligned with the operational plan priorities and structure, as well as the thematic group workplan, has made the TA implementation and monitoring smooth, as this can be done in conjunction with the overall operational plan monitoring and reporting.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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When building a new partnership, it is important to carefully assess partners’ capacity, provide prior guidance on ADB’s required procedures and expectations, and select the right partnership modalities to avoid the unexpectedly high transaction costs to make the partnership work.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Counterpart government agencies’ ownership is crucial. The roles of resident mission gender specialists and the operations department gender anchors are key in ensuring in-country stakeholders’ participation.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Pursuing pilot innovations and knowledge solutions resulted in the integration of new agendas into design of lending operations such as gender_x005F_x0002_based violence, women’s employment in the renewable energy sector, women’s leadership in water utilities and narrowing gender gaps in skills nontraditional sectors among others. The TA demonstrated the essentiality of collection of solid gender data in preparing a good project design through evidence-based planning.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The TA project design and its five outputs were an amalgam of diverse activities. Most of these outputs could easily have been managed under separate TAs. While all the outputs fell within the finance sector, they were combined into one TA project in response to directions from ADB Management and the President that the number of individual TA projects be reduced. While the TA was managed properly overall, the many different counterparts and objectives involved made the oversight process challenging and complex.

Project Number: 50017-001
Project Name: Supporting Financial Sector Development and Stability
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Frequent change in the government remains a major risk to build up the energy sector pipeline in Mongolia. It was also a cause of delayed investment in baseload generation capacity development for power and heat supply in Ulaanbaatar and of much delayed response to improve air quality in the city. All requested projects in Mongolia would need to carefully factor in changes in government that directly impacts project processing especially for a project involving multiple domestic stakeholders and requiring lengthy preparation and processing time.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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The presence of a champion in managing cross-departmental transaction is essential. The CHP 5 transaction was the first cross-departmental collaboration across the East Asia Department (EARD) (upstream development and associated facility), Private Sector Operations Department (finance to CHP 5 plant), and the Office of Public–Private Partnership and Office of the General Counsel (transaction advisory), which jointly provided assistance to facilitate the deal. Director General, EARD was the anchor for coordination across the teams and the government.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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The two-part approach of the TA project implementation was effective to flexibly accommodate changes in project environment and the government’s needs,and define the project scope for due diligence. Since CHP 5 construction was outside of direct control of the TA project, there were several occasions to change the technical specifications and subcomponent scope to accommodate the request from the CHP 5 concessionaire and the government.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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To disseminate the TA project results and lessons learned, the project officer co-wrote (i) a blog “Who milks the cow now? Or how to communicate gender stereotypes;”8F and (ii) a case study “Communication Strategies to Enforce Gender Equality Legislation in Mongolia”9F together with the focal point from ADB’s Department of Communications. These two knowledge products were published in English and Mongolian and marketed through external and internal channels (e.g., government website and Facebook page; local newspaper).

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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With systematic capacity building of local CSOs, the TA project successfully engaged (through subcontracting) 13 CSOs of two focus aimags of Dornogobi and Selenge for conducting local level studies—this helps to sustain the TA project benefits at the grassroots level in the long run.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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Because the cross-cutting nature of the TA project, there were close consultation and active participation of different stakeholders ranging from national and local-level policy makers of four sectors to the private sector and civil society.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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According to the 2020 workplan of NCGE approved on 31 January 2020, out of 81 activities in total, 16 activities will be financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR)-supported ADB TA project–Moving Gender Equality Forward through Civil Society Engagement7F effective 19 July 2020, while the rest of activities are expected to be funded by the NCGE.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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Two national CSOs were engaged as consulting firms throughout the TA project lifetime, showing potential capacity of national CSOs to implement the TA project.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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