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The TCR could have TCR could have provided further details about the national agenda/initiatives from India, Indonesia, and the PRC (Green Finance Initiative) brought about by the experience in developing this regional AMF. Based on the wrap-up workshop brief, staff from the East Asia Deparment, Central and West Asia Department, Office of the Special Project Facilitator, South Asia Department, and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, were present. Such details and other lessons from the Manila wrap-up workshop could have been mentioned in the TCR as well.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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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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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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Over the course of publishing three CSIF knowledge products, the TA could induce active involvement of the CSIF members raising awareness on the importance of regional market infrastructure for boosting intraregional investments among the members

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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The TA was financed by Republic of Korea e_x005F_x0002_Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (EAKPF), and the budget was executed prudently and transparently as planned through close coordination with EAKPF Fund Team. Thanks to EAKPF’s funding, the TA could closely collaborate with the Government of the Republic of Korea, hire an expert from Korean financial market as a consultant, and expand its network to Korean markets, all of which contributed to effectually generating the outputs and the outcome of the TA.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Since the CSIF, which the TA supports has been a regional discussion platform under the ABMI TF4, consensus among members on subject matters was, and is, essential. To ensure regional consensus, the combination of inducing active participation of the members and engaging close consultation with ASEAN+3 government officials is quite important. In addition, further engagement with the private sector is more desirable, though the preference of the members is still informal and closed.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Infrastructure development requires substantial preparedness and investment in both time and money. Particularly, a cross_x005F_x0002_border project would require more time and efforts than a national project for coordination among different jurisdictions, thus, planning and implementation arrangement would require flexibility. In addition, rapid advancement in technology would affect IT architecture design, thus, additional flexibility as well as wider involvement of various stakeholders would be desirable.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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The Japan Ministry of Finance and Japan International Cooperation Agency have been strong supporters of ACMF. ADB staff should explore opportunities to collaborate with these stakeholders in the implementation of future TA projects to provide visibility for their support and leverage on their role within the government and the private sector in Japan. The green bond study visit to Tokyo supported under this TA was a good start.The Investment Climate Facilitation Fund is a good source of TA funding forregional cooperation and integration.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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ADB provides support for capital market integration through the ASEAN as well as the ASEAN+3 processes. The latter is supported by the staff in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD). While there was some coordination with ERCD staff in the implementation of this TA, more coordination is required to find synergies between the various regional finance sector TA projects. This will reduce overlaps and produce better outputs by leveraging on the strength and network of counterparts supported by different regional TA projects.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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The independent validation process implemented under the ACGS is good practice for knowledge building. It gives practical information on actual corporate governance practices of PLCs. Many ACMF initiatives have good traction within the region. However, awareness beyond ASEAN is limited. In addition to the existing knowledge sharing of best practices within ASEAN, future support to ACMF should also include engagement with international partners. This includes foreign academic institutions with strong private sector partnerships.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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ADB should explore how to link up ACMF initiatives with other departments of ADB to scale up and so the substantial technical work with ACMF can be made operationally relevant. ACMF’s initiatives on green bonds and corporate governance can help ASEAN member countries develop their capital markets and improve corporate governance standards of PLCs. There is also potential replication to other regional groupings outside ASEAN including the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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PEDP III had 626 audit observations. Adequate training to the executing agencies on compliance with financial rules and regulation should have been provisioned under the TA, which could have improved the financial compliance and resulted in fewer audit observations.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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The rationale of the TA was generally well-articulated. The TA design could have been formulated better in terms of outputs and outcome. Distinct performance indicators for outcome and outputs could have provide better opportunities to evaluate the TA results. Also, having realistic and achievable targets is crucial considering implementation realities and timeframe.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The technical report on EE was disseminated in several forums (Bangkok and Manila). Based on the TA output, SAEN and the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department are currently collaborating to publish a technical report on Energy Efficiency in South Asia: Opportunities for Energy Sector Transformation.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The need for the establishment of a regional energy information system and database (with regional energy efficiency and conservation data, EE appliances, EE benchmarks, etc.) is considered essential in the context of a SASEC initiative that would provide baselines for determining the impacts of EE programs undertaken in the future.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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