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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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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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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 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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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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It is very important to reach consensus on TA design and planning between ADB and the EA for the TA. Considering that the draft concept paper submitted by the EA was too broad and comprehensive to be undertaken, the resident mission suggested the TA should focus on one or two areas to be reformed urgently. After several rounds of discussion, consensus was reached on the TA design and planning.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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The TA supported CAREC countries’ scaling up the JCC by (i) analyzing lessons learned, (ii) intensifying JCC by moving toward the electronic exchange of harmonized cargo manifests and mutual recognition of inspection results, and (iii) expanding JCC to more BCPs in more member countries. Both PRC and MON Customs maintain the use of the UCM in the pilot BCPs, which improved the effectiveness and efficiency of both customs administrations.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The TA was particularly successful and was able to get full support and engagement from the local development reform commissions and agencies at the provincial level due to strong leadership and facilitation from NDRC’s Department of Western Region Development.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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The TA design that is fully aligned with the operational plan priorities and structure, as well as the thematic group workplan, has made the TA implementation and monitoring smooth, as this can be done in conjunction with the overall operational plan monitoring and reporting.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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The TA design was appropriate in terms of the TA outcome and outputs. The TA implementation period was extended by 1-year with a recognition that knowledge-sharing at the local level requires more time.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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The TA design was appropriate in terms of the TA outcome and outputs. The TA implementation period was extended by 1-year with a recognition that knowledge-sharing at the local level requires more time.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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Close coordination with resident missions is essential to ensure that the TA project design meets client needs and is operationally relevant.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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For a TA project that is policy-related, buy-in of target countries is very important in realizing the outputs and results.

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