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In terms of primary counterpart selection for project implementation in biogas use, the National Energy Administration should have had a leading role. It possesses the technological know-how on biogas use in rural areas to guide and demonstrate policy commitment to achieving the renewable energy targets at both county and provincial levels.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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The implementation arrangement for the project was complicated. It particularly affected project progress when minor scope changes were needed, as four provinces had to be coordinated, as well as the secretariats of the GEF and the CEFPF on issues concerning the two grants. The government’s divisional counterparts for the ADB loan, the GEF grant, and the CEFPF grant were also different, and a lengthy coordination procedure was required for each change to the project or the grants.

Project Number: 40682-013
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Biomass Energy Development Sector Project
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Well-designed institutional capacity development interventions contribute greatly to project success.

Project Number: 39321-013
Project Name: Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Conservation and Demonstration Project
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Meaningful consultation and respectful relationships are essential to ensuring smooth project implementation in ethnic minority areas.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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A culturally diverse staff composition benefits the implementation of projects in multicultural settings.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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Thorough geological investigations and surveys during project preparation are vital to minimizing infrastructure design changes that could lead to cost overruns and implementation delays.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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Bigger contract packages will reduce transactions costs, facilitate contract management, and contribute to more efficient project implementation.

Project Number: 42016-013
Project Name: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project
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For a policy and advisory TA targeting a particular sector/industry, it is very important that practitioners and stakeholders in the related sector/industry are engaged through knowledge-sharing and capacity building events, whereby positive experience and good practices on the ground the TA identified can be replicated and potentially scaled up in the sector/industry.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Workshops, training, and seminars, which were not conducted under the TA (except the inception workshop), are effective avenues to fostering networks involving enterprises, industry associations, design institutes, equipment suppliers, energy service companies, third-party auditors, commercial banks, etc. By bringing together relevant industry stakeholders, such networks can effectively facilitate the identification, initiation, development, and implementation of energy efficiency improvement and emission reduction projects on the ground.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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For policy and advisory TAs targeting industry-wide upgrading and transformation, the lack of activities enabling active stakeholder participation such as workshops, seminars, and training activities, coupled with the lack of ownership and accountability of stakeholders, will significantly reduce the accessibility and transferability of the knowledge generated by the TAs that are originally expected to benefit the industry in a sustained manner.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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The quality of knowledge products produced by a policy and advisory TA and the extent to which these products are disseminated to targeted audience have a direct and significant impact on the likelihood of achieving the TA’s intended outcome relating to policy interventions to upgrade and transform a specific sector.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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ADB’s high staff mobility is likely to have adverse impact on teamwork and coordination within ADB and between ADB and the executing agency/implementing agency, which is key to TA performance.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Time-based contracts of individual consultants are likely to risk underperformance of consultants and under-delivery of deliverables in the form of report, especially in a situation where there are no explicit and detailed requirements on the breadth and depth of the report and no stringent process of review, revision, and resubmission.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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In addition to milestones deliverables in consultants’ terms of reference, it is essential to identify appropriate mechanisms to ensure critical review of such deliverables and provide comments and guidance through ADB in-house technical expertise or external industry expert as a peer reviewer.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Adequate consultation with the borrower during TA conceptualization and design as well as regular communications during TA implementation are necessary to ensure that the executing and implementing agencies are purposively identified, accountable for TA objectives and effectively engaged in facilitating TA implementation.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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