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Knowledge products were delivered and disseminated through meetings, workshops, seminars, and internal channels to policy makers. However, because of the concern on the sensitivity of the topics, the EA suggested that the final reports should not be posted on the ADB website, limiting the broader dissemination of the TA findings.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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Based on the consultants’ final reports and the two policy briefing notes, two issues of Observations and Suggestions were prepared by the resident mission and published on ADB website, which can be replicated in other similar TAprojects.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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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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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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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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Three TA review workshops (inception, interim, and final) provided a forum where the content of draft milestone reports and the methodology of planned activities could be discussed in detail with key stakeholders which enabled the TA outputs and activities to be tailored to the needs of key stakeholders.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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A wide range of stakeholders, including various bureaus and commissions of prefecture and county governments (development and reform, finance, agriculture, human resources and social security, education, poverty alleviation, civil affairs, land resources, information and commerce); village leaders; rural migrants and their families; and local enterprises, were involved in TA implementation, which ensured the relevance and ownership of the TA activities and outputs.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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As Chuxiong Prefecture government’s proposal for the TA was broadly formulated, it was necessary, in the process of designing the TA, to identify issues that could be addressed by policy and institutional reforms and narrow down the scope of the proposed TA based on preliminary research and discussions with key stakeholders. This led to a clear specification of the TA outcome, outputs, and key activities which effectively guided the TA implementation.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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As the TA aimed to recommend policy actions that could be incorporated into policy documents of the Chuxiong Prefecture government, the four policy notes were produced for relevant bureaus and institutions of the Chuxiong Prefecture government involved in the preparation of the implementation plan for the rural vitalization strategy for Chuxiong Prefecture.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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The stability of the ADB TA team and core staff of the TA executing agency from design stages to completion contributed to the achievement of the TA outputs and outcome, despite the change of director at the TA executing and implementing agencies in inception stages of TA implementation. ADB recruited, guided, and monitored the TA consultants, and ensured the quality of the TA outputs (milestone reports). Qualified international and national industry development experts were difficult to find, and the experts had been replaced a few times during TA implementation.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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Questionnaires, focus group discussions, and interviews were jointly administered by the TA implementing agency which had undertaken a similar study in 2010 and the TA consultants, leading to a strong ownership of the survey findings by the TA implementing agency, and facilitating policy dialogue.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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Dialogue is necessary so that studies and policies can be structured to comply with the government’s requirements. Had this been done during the design stage, the urban public transport promotion policy proposed under the project would not have been rejected.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Air Quality Improvement– Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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It is important to perform technical and economic due diligence and feasibility before policy actions are recommended and implemented.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Air Quality Improvement– Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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Strong commitment and coordination among development partners make the attainment of policy reforms more feasible.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Quality Improvement-Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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Sustained engagement is important in undertaking policy reforms that may take many years to implement.

Project Number: 49232-001
Project Name: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Air Quality Improvement-Hebei Policy Reforms Program
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