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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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Timely consultant recruitment, fielding and rigorous monitoring ensured quality and on-time implementation and completion of subprojects. Regular project performance reporting facilitated in alerting management of operations departments regarding progress and performance of subprojects.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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A follow-on TA with a similar structure (R-CDTA 9660) was approved in late 2018 to continue with gender operational support and innovation to support the implementation of the new Gender Operational Plan. In addition, other proposals have been prepared for continued support to some of the subprojects (e.g., FCFWI Tbilisi and Bandung) from funds available from the ADB Governance and Urban sector and thematic groups.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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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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It is not only the competence of consultants that is important but also their ability to navigate the consultant management system that determines timely closure of TA accounts.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The three-country experience showed replication and scaling up depends on country context and government buy-in.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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Having local partners (e.g., in the PRC) facilitate workshop organization and implementation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The TA project benefitted from a broad network of partners from the PRC and independent accountability mechanism that contributed to mobilizing a large number of workshop participants and to getting rich inputs to improve the quality of the initial draft of the regional framework.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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For a TA project that is policy-related, buy-in of target countries is very important in realizing the outputs and results.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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