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Projects that address such complexities as fragmented approach to development have an opportunity and a huge potential to become models for similar activities in the country or region; therefore, they must explicitly build into the project design mechanisms for disseminating the experiences and lessons—both successful and otherwise.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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Projects should take the opportunity during MTRs to review, assess data needs (especially in integrated projects), take feedback from all stakeholders (including project beneficiaries), and update the results framework (either way) by reassessing and strengthening indicators.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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It is important to ensure that targets are realistic in their timing, achievable within the span of control of the project activities and can be directly attributed to project outcomes and outputs.

Project Number: 40017-013
Project Name: Qingdao Water Resources and Wetland Protection Project
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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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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 TA would have benefited from having an officially designated implementing agency instead of having assigned the dual, de facto role to the executing agency—particularly one that is situated at the ministerial (State Council) level of government. The DRC, by virtue of its stature and function, would not have the capacity nor expected responsibility to supervise and monitor day-to-day TA activities at the project level. Simply assigning staff from its two departments to work with the TA team may not be the best recourse.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Relationship building by ADB with the government and other stakeholders and continuity in the team managing the TA are critical components of smooth and successful TA implementation. The TA experienced problems at the onset that continued throughout implementation. There was a lack of teamwork and coordination between ADB, the DRC, and the TA consultants. The TA changed hands five times at ADB due to staff mobility.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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It is essential to adopt an appropriate monitoring framework with relevant indicators to measure project results.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The broad range of enterprises and technologies requires commercial banks to expand their knowledge and understanding of energy efficiency technologies to broaden project origination and monitoring skills.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Technical advisory and capacity building are critical in ensuring that commercial banks are able to assess risks and returns associated with energy efficiency investments.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Financial intermediation arrangements can help build energy efficiency lending portfolios of commercial banks.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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The PRC’s energy market is dominated by government oversight and regulation, rather than market principles; flexibility is therefors required to adapt project implementation to evolving market conditions and government priorities.

Project Number: 40524-013
Project Name: Shandong Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Project
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Stronger coordination among the ADB teams and divisions in the TA design phase is paramount to ensure timeliness and stronger policy coherence with the activities of ADB’s regional cooperation program (e.g., CAREC workshop/conference).

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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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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