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ADB’s participation in a country-driven program, by bringing knowledge and experience in addition to financing, catalyzes interest and cofinancing from other development agencies. This program was a critical element for enhancing the entire ecosystem of housing financing and mortgage market, helping lay thegroundwork for diversified funding and private sector involvement.

Project Number: 50022-002
Project Name: Affordable Rural Housing Program
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A holistic understanding of the direction of sector reforms and a programmatic approach in investment programs, synchronized with the pace of sector reforms, will help build resilience in TA design and deliver a more ambitious agenda than originally planned.

Project Number: 52322-002
Project Name: Preparing Sustainable Energy Investment Projects
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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 programmatic approach taken in the TA—including upstream policy reforms, midstream transaction advisory support, and downstream funding support—along with the One ADB collaboration model for energy transition, has been well-recognized and is being replicated in other developing member countries. This type of TA is instrumental in supporting the government during times of significant changes. The analytical studies in support of policy dialogues and reform measures have been critical in firming up ADB’s leading role in the sector and in leveraging reforms through investments.

Project Number: 52322-002
Project Name: Preparing Sustainable Energy Investment Projects
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A longer implementation is required for complex TA projects. The TA was designed to support the development of a new economic corridor development (ECD) framework and operational guidelines that apply to the Central and West Asian countries and beyond. Taking lessons from other long-term ECD-related TAs, the TA could have been designed for a longer time frame from the start, with a more realistic timeline for completion, given the complexity of the ECD and the COVID-19- related constraints. A regular TA, instead of a small-scale TA, could have been a better option.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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Developing a manual on public investment projects’ feasibility study in local language, a TA output with immense value to Uzbekistan, may be replicated in other countries.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Long-term sustainability is critical for quality assurance programs to have a lasting and meaningful impact. This needs to be considered in the design of future similar TA, learning from this TA's experience. The TA's limited implementation period contrasts with private auditor quality assurance programsm which are regular, continuous, and long-term and require methodological and financial support to sustain momentum and achieve meaningful results.

Project Number: 52113-001
Project Name: Strengthening Financial Management in Asia and the Pacific, Phase 2
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For a TA to enhance governance and financial management, close engagement with the DMCs’ institutions is critical for timely realizing the outputs and results.

Project Number: 52113-001
Project Name: Strengthening Financial Management in Asia and the Pacific, Phase 2
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Energy efficiency requires multisector engagement and broader coordination with different sectors of the economy, such as agriculture and industry, and with local government.

Project Number: 54269-001
Project Name: Power Sector Reform Program (Subprogram 1)
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Application of lessons from preceding similar projects and regional experience with institutional reforms strengthens the potential for success of projects. In this case, these lessons suggest that (i) strong government ownership is critical to achieving results; (ii) collaboration with development partners is essential to build consensus for reforms; (iii) continued long-term engagement on reforms, supported by investments, is necessary for sustainability; and (iv) monitoring and evaluation are needed for the effective continuation of reforms.

Project Number: 54269-001
Project Name: Power Sector Reform Program (Subprogram 1)
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Technical assistance support and policy advice, coordinated across development partners and provided in parallel with budget support programs, can help push energy reform agenda and build capacity.

Project Number: 54269-001
Project Name: Power Sector Reform Program (Subprogram 1)
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Timely and appropriate change in the project scope can help enhance project performance. For example, adjustments on the project design during the early stages of implementation can enhance project results at completion. A project scope that requires corrective actions needs to be addressed during midterm review to enable the project to achieve better results.

Project Number: 41340-013
Project Name: Advanced Electricity Metering Project
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Project readiness challenges could result in sequential delays of the different tranches in an MFF, leaving insufficient time for implementation within the MFF term and making MFF less relevant. Prior to the approval of each tranche, the initial design for each project was prepared to varying degrees.

Project Number: 44483-024, 44483-023, 44483-026, 44483-027
Project Name: Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program
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High quality detailed designs, ensured through the engagement of competent consultants, will facilitate advance procurement thus allowing projects to start up without delay as intended by the advance procurement actions. With advance procurement action, the executing agency succeeded in shortening the time for procurement after loan effectiveness. Despite the positive effect, the detailed design was not prepared correctly, resulting in the technically qualified bidder’s financial proposal being higher than the cost estimates.

Project Number: 44483-023, 44483-026
Project Name: Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program (Tranches 1 and 2)
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