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Broad alignment of the TA support with key reform areas contributed to the relevance of TA design.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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While TTF covers a large number of issues, the attempt in subproject 1 to design a single TA to cover all aspects lead to a lack of balance and feasible progress across all outputs. Subproject 2 narrowed the focus based on the mid-term review of subproject 1 (i.e. traffic rights exchange and customs transit issues) for more feasible progress in line with the GMS member country positions.

Project Number: 44174-022
Project Name: Support for Implementing the Action Plan for Transport and Trade Facilitation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Subprojects 1 and 2)
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The TA was designed to draw lessons from international case studies and relied heavily on international consultants. Although this has its merits, the importance of being able to localize these case studies to the context of the Urumqi Metropolitan Area, and to have the reports in Chinese was underestimated in the initial design. The inclusion of local technical experts such as university professors may have helped to improve the localization aspects of the design, and improved communication in both Chinese and English.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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Research to inform policy needs to be carefully planned and designed with a realistic scope and precise focus to achieve useful results. Research under Output 3 combined a literature review and internet search with interviews with manufacturing sector organizations in the United States and the European Union. However, the TA team had difficulty obtaining meaningful replies to advance the study. In the TA consultant report, the team acknowledged that they may have asked the wrong questions.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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The contracted level of inputs of the consultants were fully utilized, but there were no final reports submitted. It may be worthwhile considering milestone payments instead of time-based contracts to help the TA officer control the progress and quality of deliverables.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Seeking further synergies with ADB’s Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) and Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) programs can contribute to greener infrastructure development in the region. The TA’s potential to foster regional cooperation integration was not fully explored due to lack of planning and coordination with the CAREC initiatives at the design stage. The project team tried to remedy this shortcoming by conducting a larger final workshop event in December 2018 with the CAREC guests.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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TA design gave the IAs primary responsibility for executing and monitoring the TA activities. This helped foster strong government ownership and buy-in.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Outputs could have been better streamlined as some components were overlapping. For example, outputs 1, 2, and 4 were discussing international practices and the three PPP type of funds, i.e., VGFs, lending facilities, and guarantee funds, and its applicability to PRC conditions. It is unclear whether different types were proposed for use by different levels of government. The original aim was to promote standardized application of a PPP model.

Project Number: 48377-001
Project Name: Financing Public-Private Partnerships
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The TA showed the importance of formulating an outcome that is the direct and immediate result of the project outputs. Government acceptance at a fairly distant date of the project’s policy recommendations as an indicator of outcome achievement was over ambitious, and the outcome itself of actual improvement of the public sector compensation system was dependent on many (often political) factors far beyond the control of an ADB TA.

Project Number: 48459-001
Project Name: Reforms in the Public Sector Compensation System
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Road safety requires a multi-disciplinary approach so actions on road safety needs to be taken at country level considering different approaches. Accordingly, the follow up TA (TA 9754: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation: Knowledge Sharing and Services in Transport and Transport Facilitation Phase 2) includes more national capacity development events to support DMCs was established and became an integral block of this program.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The training focusing on road safety engineering was aligned to ADB’s operations which led integration of road safety evaluation tools into CAREC road projects and consideration of road safety in the projects. The workshops featured practical trainings in blackspot investigation and road safety audit which was designed to assist road agencies in CAREC countries in providing safer roads.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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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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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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In order to have greater flexibility to respond to emerging needs of DMCs contrary to usual practice, the TA did not specify upfront what target DMCs would be included. This allowed greater responsiveness once opportunities for mobilization of climate finance became clearer.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The TA addressed the significant complexity and highly dynamic evolution of the external climate finance landscape and mechanisms such as the GCF, and the challenges and barriers faced by DMCs to identify and develop priority projects which deliver against national climate and development priorities as well as the investment criteria of external climate finance providers. Overall, there remains a strong rationale for ADB to step up innovative approaches in climate finance, and support to DMCs for accessing climate finance both from its own as well as external climate finance sources.

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