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In order to have greater flexibility to respond to emerging needs of DMCs contrary to usual practice, the TA did not specify upfront what target DMCs would be included. This allowed greater responsiveness once opportunities for mobilization of climate finance became clearer.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Promoting close involvement of DMC stakeholders in discussions with climate finance providers allowed government decision makers and DMC stakeholders the opportunity to interact with climate financiers first-hand and was an important contribution to increasing buy-in by all parties.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The TA showed the benefits of employing a flexible approach to provision of support, including consultant terms of reference which were suitable for hiring consultants to carry out a broad range of activities. There are also benefits to work closely with the team of consultants ensuring timely delivery and quality of outputs.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The TA addressed the significant complexity and highly dynamic evolution of the external climate finance landscape and mechanisms such as the GCF, and the challenges and barriers faced by DMCs to identify and develop priority projects which deliver against national climate and development priorities as well as the investment criteria of external climate finance providers. Overall, there remains a strong rationale for ADB to step up innovative approaches in climate finance, and support to DMCs for accessing climate finance both from its own as well as external climate finance sources.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lessons and experiences from the regional TA proved useful in the up-scaling to loan projects for the RIBS projects in Mongolia, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. Potential RIBS projects are in the country operations business plans for Uzbekistan and other countries in the region.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The TA implementation included a comprehensive and coordinated approach amongst the key stakeholders and decision makers in all participating countries.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The following are knowledge products disseminated under the TA: (i) CAREC Joint Customs Control: Case Study of Pilot Project between People’s Republic of China and Mongolia; (ii) Coordinated Border Management for Results in CAREC - Assessment of Customs and Border Crossing Points - Consolidated Report; (iii) Coordinated Border Management for Results in CAREC -Assessment of Customs and Border Crossing Points for Georgia; (iv) Coordinated Border Management for Results in CAREC - Promoting Cooperation in Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation –deli

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The regional TA financing was by JFPR. Japanese visibility was ensured through sharing Japan’s rich experience in customs modernization. Japanese resource persons presented at the workshops/events where Japanese organizations were engaged. These largely contributed to the success of the TA in achieving its intended outcome and outputs. The TA had close coordination and partnership with technical experts from relevant units of the WCO.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The TA supported CAREC countries’ scaling up the JCC by (i) analyzing lessons learned, (ii) intensifying JCC by moving toward the electronic exchange of harmonized cargo manifests and mutual recognition of inspection results, and (iii) expanding JCC to more BCPs in more member countries. Both PRC and MON Customs maintain the use of the UCM in the pilot BCPs, which improved the effectiveness and efficiency of both customs administrations.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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