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Lesson
The TCR found that close interaction between DMC stakeholders and climate finance providers was essential to create buy-in from all parties. The TCR did not provide evidence or data to support the level of adoption or commitment to TA efforts, or other evidence of continuing action and sustainability after TA completion.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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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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For policy and advisory TAs targeting industry-wide upgrading and transformation, the lack of activities enabling active stakeholder participation such as workshops, seminars, and training activities, coupled with the lack of ownership and accountability of stakeholders, will significantly reduce the accessibility and transferability of the knowledge generated by the TAs that are originally expected to benefit the industry in a sustained manner.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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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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Useful to conduct a stakeholder analysis and ensure that all key groups are included. It would have also been useful to add more details with regard to the actual participation of the enterprises during TA implementation.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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Based on the additional explanation on the political sensitivity surrounding policy debates on urban–rural migration or hukou system, this TA’s experience on how ADB can support in these issues deserves good attention and follow-up.

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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This is a repetition of the previous lesson. It could have been improved by highlighting the importance of stakeholders’ role in regional trade integration, supported by actual experiences.

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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Lesson
Stakeholder participation and consultation are both crucial for the relevance of project design.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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Since the CSIF, which the TA supports has been a regional discussion platform under the ABMI TF4, consensus among members on subject matters was, and is, essential. To ensure regional consensus, the combination of inducing active participation of the members and engaging close consultation with ASEAN+3 government officials is quite important. In addition, further engagement with the private sector is more desirable, though the preference of the members is still informal and closed.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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High level political commitment and active stakeholder participation is crucial. The Ministers’ decision to meet more often (up to twice a year rather than every three years) proved an effective incentive for countries to deliver the agreed follow up, as officials needed to report positive progress in their respective countries at the ministerial meetings.

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 multi-stakeholder workshops held as part of this TA were crucial to building support and ownership of the consultant’srecommendations among the diverse group of stakeholders. Recognizing this, the consultants organized additional stakeholder workshops, beyond their initial terms of reference. This has led to likely sustainability of the TA outcome, as the different agencies have adopted recommendations from the report and implementation plans in the 14th FYP.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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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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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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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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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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