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A lesson could have been included here on the role of this TA in building a clear body of research, consultation, and validation toward the final production and wide dissemination of the TA products.

Project Number: 48377-001
Project Name: Financing Public-Private Partnerships
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consultants. 4. Knowledge building ( ) Awareness () Technical product ( ) Adoption or uptake () Building institutional or system capacity ( ) National or sector practice (guidelines) ( ) Policy, legal standards ( ) Academic literature The workshops were attended by 40 government officials, but further knowledge sharing was facilitated through a wider yet targeted dissemination of the knowledge products. When targeted well, distribution of knowledge products can be an effective way of institutional knowledge building.

Project Number: 48459-001
Project Name: Reforms in the Public Sector Compensation System
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Agree. But the TCR did not provide any explanation on why the final dissemination event was not held, despite that there were adequate TA resources to support this activity. For the TA-produced general synthesis report and the three subreports, the TCR provided no information other than their titles.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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Agreed. Another useful lesson is the importance of involving clients in a hands-on manner to build a technical product and ensure the transfer of technical expertise, and the subsequent adoption or uptake

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Careful attention to conceptualization of knowledge products, and measures to ensure their quality and utilization are important elements of effectiveness in building institutional and regulatory reform in sectors that are being targeted for the first time. In this case, a series of small TAs, building upon each other to build the policy framework and advisory elements in a structured and sequential manner was appropriate.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Based on the TCR narrative, the TA prepared some technical documents and accessed new mechanisms for climate finance. The approved GCF proposals were examples. While the TA made some efforts to increase awareness and disseminate knowledge via the in-country consultations, there was no clear evidence or assessment that the target audience was more aware of the technical materials presented, and had adopted the same, thereby, building institutional capacity. Adopting national or sectoral policies or legal standards, or any academic literature was not mentioned in the TCR.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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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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Cross-regional learning could be complemented with country-specific capacity building activities (which takes into account differences in country context) for a more effective capacity building activity.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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The relevant TA-produced analytical work and subsequent reports could have been more widely disseminated to foster the government counterparts’ understanding of a decisive role assigned to the market in resource allocation.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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Collaborations with DMCs’ officials through two technical workshops on monitoring short-term economic growth provided forums for knowledge sharing among DMCs and with ADB on how the monitoring is conducted in different places. These activities have proven to be valuable avenues for knowledge_x005F_x0002_building activity that strengthened the capacity of ADB and DMCs to conduct macroeconomic assessment and reinforced the importance of keeping the tool kit up to date to ensure ADB’s relevance and value addition in policy dialogues.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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The workshops were attended by 40 government officials, but further knowledge sharing was facilitated through a wider yet targeted dissemination of the knowledge products. When targeted well, distribution of knowledge products can be an effective way of institutional knowledge building.

Project Number: 48459-001
Project Name: Reforms in the Public Sector Compensation System
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Promoting knowledge exchange and sharing of lessons learned from successful climate financing applications is important in a context of very limited experience with innovative climate finance mechanisms.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Employ a “learning-by-doing” approach jointly with DMC stakeholders when developing climate-funding applications, including very close interaction between DMC stakeholders and proposal preparation consultants, is effective for knowledge building.

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