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Joint activities with development partners (DPs), such as collaboration in knowledge products and joint conduct of capacity-building activities, could maximize synergies and resources further. These could build on close coordination and relationships developed by this project among CAREC countries, as well with DPs which the project team strengthened through regular communication and information exchange, and by inviting the DPs to TA workshops and consultation meetings.

Project Number: 53198-001
Project Name: Developing a Disaster Risk Transfer Facility in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Region
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The framework for a program’s data management system should be put in place before its start to measure the achievement of targets and beneficiaries and (the ambitiousness of goals should be balanced against the availability of data and capacity to quickly augment granular data collection. Although the government has increased its focus on gender equality and has made efforts to strengthen gender data tracking, data disaggregated by sex and age of end recipients were often not available at the time of program preparation and monitoring.

Project Number: 56149-001
Project Name: Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical Expenditures Program
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When designing future programs, ADB needs to encourage the government to implement long-term reforms that expand sex-disaggregated data collection and strengthen the capacity of line ministries and statistical agencies. With ADB dedicated technical assistance (TA) support, the government should promote the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation system, interagency exchange of data, and systemic links between planning, budgeting, and execution.

Project Number: 56149-001
Project Name: Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical Expenditures Program
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Continuing dialogue between ADB and the Uzbekistan government is necessary to further improve the government's focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment. Potential gender entry points for ADB could be to support knowledge building on gender-based budgeting, integrating gender and social dimensions into social protection systems, and gender-focused small and mediyum-sized enterprise development programs for job creation.

Project Number: 56149-001
Project Name: Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical Expenditures Program
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Promotion of social equity criteria and gender quotas is instrumental in the economic empowerment of vulnerable groups and women.

Project Number: 50022-002
Project Name: Affordable Rural Housing Program
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The absence of a dedicated Gender staff in the implementing agency can limit the implementation of the project's Gender action plan (GAP). The reform process in the sector led to the suspension of some GAP activities and necessitated revisions of several GAP activities and targets. Although the factors that caused the delay in the implementation of the GAP were beyond the control of the executing agency, the absence of dedicated Gender staff in the PIU impeded certain GAP activities.

Project Number: 41340-013
Project Name: Advanced Electricity Metering Project
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The ambitiousness of goals should be balanced with the availability of data and capacity to quickly augment more granular data collection. Data disaggregated by sex and age of end-recipients are often not available at the time of project preparation and this was the case with this program. Even after effectiveness and during implementation, only limited new data were prepared by the government. Systems were lacking to collect such data.

Project Number: 54160-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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