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Mapping and analysis of the policy and institutional frameworks governing LHC management helped in addressing the key challenges to develop and implement a subnational expenditure framework for SLHCP.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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The new TA classification (knowledge and support TA and transaction TA) has removed the prescriptive nature of the previous TA types (such as capacity development TA and project preparatory TA). Increased flexibility in TA classification led to increased relevance during TA implementation.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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The TA highlighted the value of strong leadership by the implementing agency. The MOH Department of Planning and Finance was effective in coordinating inputs of development partners under a common analytical framework for the LHC reform agenda (the Master plan), thereby ensuring that investments of each development partner, including ADB, the World Bank, and World Health Organization, were complementary and without duplication.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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The EHR roadmap provides options for the replication and scale-up of EHR for the LHC system. This will be further piloted under LHCSDP’s grant-financed component.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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The TA’s efforts to develop a subnational expenditure framework for SLHCP implementation were hampered by challenges in obtaining robust historical health sector expenditure data for provincial levels. Future efforts to generate financial data from local governments require engagement not only with MOH, but also the Ministry of Finance.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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Development partners are willing to support national policy reforms when the country shows clarity and leadership. Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund additional financing allowed the TA to develop with the government innovative approaches, particularly to include IT-based solutions in the health services management.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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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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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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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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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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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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Increased readiness for finance access differs from actual capacity to access finance and is highly context-specific to the type of project for which finance is required, the sources of finance being tapped, and individual DMC priorities and circumstances.

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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The TA highlighted the value of promoting knowledge exchange among DMCs on the issue of access to external climate finance, on which most DMCs only have limited direct experience.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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