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Lesson
Early engagement with ADB project teams during the project design stage allows for more effective framing of projects as climate-relevant, as well as the inclusion of climate-relevant project components, which facilitate the mobilization of climate finance.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
As a consequence of this TA, a cost center has been established in SDCD, which allows ADB, inter alia, to continue to develop project proposals for submission to GCF. ADB’s Pacific Regional Department has since implemented TAs that can support the generation of climate finance proposals in conjunction with ADB projects.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
After direct requests from DMCs to ADB to assist them with climate finance access, the TA was responsive to the evolving needs of DMCs related to the financing of their climate commitments under the UNFCCC which were not necessarily (yet) included in their country partnership strategy.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Promoting knowledge exchange and sharing of lessons learned from successful climate financing applications is important in a context of very limited experience with innovative climate finance mechanisms.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Employ a “learning-by-doing” approach jointly with DMC stakeholders when developing climate-funding applications, including very close interaction between DMC stakeholders and proposal preparation consultants, is effective for knowledge building.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Close exchange with the GCF Secretariat as well as with other multilateral development banks and development partners accredited to the GCF has been helpful for understanding the investment criteria of climate financiers. The TA benefited from cofinancing by the NDF which was mobilized during TA implementation.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Greater effort is needed in assessing the political and economic context to determine the chances of success of reform efforts. The program design was complex with 25 policy conditions for subprogram 1 and 38 policy conditions for subprogram 2, involving a large number of implementing agencies and reform areas. There are benefits in keeping program simple by limiting the number of reform actions, agencies involved, and the number of subprograms under a cluster.

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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Lesson
Most of the benefits associated with the reforms supported under the cluster program were conditional on the final reforms to be supported under a subprogram 3, which never eventuated. To the extent that this caused reform momentum to be lost or take a risky direction, this approach risked delaying (at a minimum) or wasting years of reform effort (TA, financial resources and government commitment).

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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Lesson
Reform agendas chosen for program cluster support should be carefully selected during program design. Subprogram 1 had 25 policy conditions, while subprogram 2 had 38 policy conditions. The large number of implementing agencies and reform areas complicates program coordination. When reviewing the implementation of this cluster program, too often it seemed that quantity of policy actions was a substitute for the low number of consequent reforms that could be achieved within the indicative time-span.

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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Lesson
The importance of reform momentum and of programmatic assistance for sustaining the momentum. However, the experience with some reforms in core policy areas 1 and 3 is a reminder that when sufficient political pressure is exerted, financial and technical capacity constraints can sometimes be overcome, even in the absence of programmatic support (as would have been provided through subprogram 3). This calls for greater effort during the design and implementation stages to assess the political and economic context, which can determine whether or not a reform effort will succeed.

Project Number: 41545-013, 41545-023
Project Name: Sindh Growth and Rural Revitalization Program
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Lesson
More careful assessment of the capacity of the executing and implementing agencies should have been made as such programs need to be driven by the borrower and not by ADB or consultants.

Project Number: 36057-013, 36057-023
Project Name: Punjab Resource Management Program
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Lesson
No new lessons

Project Number: 37135-013, 37135-033
Project Name: Balochistan Resource Management Program
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Lesson
The design of the BRMP, supported by the TA loan, was meant to promote the use ofavailable fiscal resources for delivering services to the poor. This can happen only if the system that links the financial sector and the delivery of services to the poor exists on the ground, and is functioning properly. The situation in Balochistan clearly did not fulfill these conditions. During Board consideration of the loan, a number of members had raised this issue and cautioned the staff, saying that implementation was going to be key.

Project Number: 37135-023
Project Name: Supporting Public Resource Management Reforms in Balochistan
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