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Consultants’ terms of reference should be based on milestone deliverables (final reports, surveys, workshops/training events, and others) submitted officially to ADB and executing agency/implementing agency, and not time-based contracts. To ensure the quality of milestone deliverables, it is useful to have an effective mechanism established as part of the TA design to ensure a critical review process of the deliverables and require the consultants to rework unsatisfactory deliverables at no or limited additional costs.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Depending upon the nature of survey questions, appropriate sampling methods shall be applied to ensure reasonable representativeness of samples to be surveyed.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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For TAs involving a survey, the survey should be prepared in collaboration with all stakeholders, including ADB, the executing agency, and the implementing agency. Furthermore, before implementing the survey at full-scale, it is necessary to pilot-test the questionnaire and make necessary adjustments based on responses, so as to ensure the robustness of survey design and the usefulness of its implementation results.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Lessons and experiences from the regional TA proved useful in the up_x005F_x0002_scaling to loan projects for the RIBS projects in Mongolia, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. Potential RIBS projects are in the country operations business plans for Uzbekistan and other countries in the region.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Accessing additional professional and technical resources was helpful in contributing to the success of the TA. In particular, the involvement of technical experts from the WCO enhanced the provision of technical support and enabled the TA to develop methodologies (TRS, JCC). In addition, the use of Japanese resource persons enabled the TA to draw on country practices in customs modernization and visibility improvement. These lessons could be relevant to other JFPR-funded TA projects as well.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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TA projects should specify what change is expected from the ‘active participation’ of stakeholders in the activities. The TCR could have commented on the extent to which this ‘active participation’ helped improve the quality of results and buy-in or how the TA managed to secure engagement of relevant stakeholders.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The development of knowledge products is insufficient to build capacity and support uptake of findings by partners. Using appropriate dissemination pathways is important in engaging relevant stakeholders and decision makers to adopt the key messages. The main dissemination pathways for the JCC case study and the three CBM reports seem to be through presentations to relevant authorities and targeted training activities to strengthen awareness, institutional capacity, standards, and policies.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Horizontal linkages across similar projects (in this case the two other regional TAs) should be strengthened to ensure exchange of information and lessons.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Management supervision and coordination of regional work is essential, particularly when there are multiple stakeholders at national and regional levels, and issues are complex.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Early understanding of JFPR guidelines and classification of eligible and non-eligible expenditures can help allocate these funds to critical TA activities and reduce cost overestimates.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The text could instead have reflected on the approach to working with regional countries to scale up JCCs, particularly on how contextual factors (such as the key risks and assumptions outlined in the DMF) helped the team to design, sequence and prioritize their work program to achieve results

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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In cases where results dissemination is constrained, due to sensitivities (as occurred in this TA), ADB may instead prepare and publish “Observations and Suggestions” on its website.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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Application of the One ADB approach from concept stage throughout implementation can enhance the value of a TA project through complementary competencies and perspectives (as was the case in this TA through the PRC resident mission, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department).

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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To ensure effective continuity in an executing agency, backup staffing and/or arrangements should be planned in case of key staff changes.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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To ensure ownership and uptake of key TA findings, it is important to schedule and arrange key events when key stakeholders are able to participate (e.g., a training seminar was an issue in this TA).

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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