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Some of the key messages from the final TA workshop held in Beijing in December 2018 included: The importance of investment banks in regulating the environmental policies of construction and infrastructure industries (highlighted by the Deputy Secretary General of the Green Finance Committee of the China Society for Finance and Banking, during his presentation on the policies and requirements for environmental safeguards adopted by investment banks worldwide and trends in the PRC).

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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MEE noted that while the PRC and governments of partner countries shall promote legal frameworks to foster sustainability of infrastructure investments, greater efforts shall be made by companies, enterprises, civil society organizations, and international agencies, including international financial institutions.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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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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Multilateral cooperation: MEE and its Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO), as the implementing agency, has provided counterparty staff and support to coordinate workshops and training arrangements.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Moving forward, key outputs of the TA could be shared with CAREC countries, using the CAREC initiatives as a vehicle for knowledge and best practices dissemination across the region.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Active participation of female professionals, with leading roles such as panelists or session moderators, should be encouraged and sought for in future conferences to address. gender balance in a more substantial way

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Lessons learned from the TA are outlined as follows: need for establishment of stronger linkages with other ADB regional departments for wider dissemination of results and increased facilitation of best practice exchange in Asia and the Pacific region.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Assessing and promoting infrastructure sustainability shall be a shared responsibility among central and local governments, the development institutions they support and every single member of the infrastructure value chain.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Lessons learned from the TA are outlined as follows: need for closer coordination among ADB, consultants, and the executing agency on well-defined expectations for wide topics such as the ones belonging to the TA subject.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Better contract management can help clarify the TA administration responsibilities and tasks since the TA design an inception phases to prevent subsequent delays.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Infrastructure sustainability and resilience are not only a concern for future generations, but can also have an immediate material impact on economic performance and risk profiles of single investments and projects.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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TA designs can better consider the need for a large pool of international consultants where tasks may be fulfilled within one consultant position. Due to the absence of qualified applicants for one international consultant position, it was necessary to merge the tasks of this position with that of a separately recruited specialist. This had no adverse effect on TA implementation or success and produced savings. However, TA designs could give closer consideration to such a merging of roles when practical, rather than recruiting a larger number of consultants than may actually be needed.

Project Number: 48010-001
Project Name: Study on Local Financial Market Development and Supervisory Framework
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The strong support of the executing and implementing agencies clearly contributed to the sound outputs of the TA. This was facilitated by effective prior engagement in defining TA design.

Project Number: 48010-001
Project Name: Study on Local Financial Market Development and Supervisory Framework
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Having local partners (e.g., in the PRC) facilitate workshop organization and implementation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The TA project benefitted from a broad network of partners from the PRC and independent accountability mechanism that contributed to mobilizing a large number of workshop participants and to getting rich inputs to improve the quality of the initial draft of the regional framework.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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