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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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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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As weak capacity in revenue administrations still remain due to emerging challenges including significant and rapid changes in the business circumstances (i.e., expansion of cross-border supply chain and digitalized platform), scaling up capacity building initiatives to address these challenges will be required. The subprojects implemented by ADB regional departments should be well designed at the initial stage to improve the likelihood of success.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Domestic Resource Mobilization Trust Fund (DRMTF) and the TA project Enhancing Tax Transparency of ADB Developing Member Countries have taken over this TA project’s role while wider engagement with operations departments and units will support the development of integrated DRM solutions by pooling and coordinating knowledge, expertise, and other resources under a One ADB approach.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Strengthening external audit requires long-term commitment, a culture of change, and the acceptance by the legislature and the government that an independent body should be responsible for external audit.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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Strengthening external audit could have been undertaken as a separate program.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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For future similar interventions, the use of the theory of change methodology, which starts by determining what outcomes are required, how success would be measured, and the activities required to achieve them, should be considered.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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The DMF is crucial in monitoring progress and assessing program accomplishments.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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Local auditors should be trained in good public auditing practice in organizations abroad.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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There is a better chance of success if senior advisers from recognized audit offices in countries—where corruption is low and quality PFM is rated highly—are embedded into this audit authority.

Project Number: 41373-012, 41373-013
Project Name: Public Financial Management for Rural Development Program
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Since changes brought about by national elections can have a significant impact on program implementation, programs being planned need to be discussed with key political parties at the design stage.

Project Number: 38421-013, 38421-023, 38421-072
Project Name: Promoting Economic Diversification Program
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