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As investment portfolio grows and as infrastructure projects increase in number, become larger, more complex, and diverse, it is important to improve the capacity of key institutions. Stronger managerial and technical capacities in areas, such as risk management, pricing, and treasury operations, are essential especially when an institution plays a nodal role in private sector financing in a growing infrastructure environment.

Project Number: 42180-016
Project Name: Third Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility (Tranche 1)
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New products can benefit from market and demand analysis that provide a basis for designing products that are responsive to the needs of the market. The introduction of take-out financing under this project did not benefit from such analysis. Uptake for take-out financing as designed under Tranche 1 was low. This highlights the role of market and demand analysis that provide valuable inputs in designing and introducing a new financial product that is responsive to market demand.

Project Number: 42180-016
Project Name: Third Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility (Tranche 1)
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Long-term engagement establishes understanding and trust, which are vital for any reform program to succeed but indispensable for the finance sector, where policy actions such as those relating to interest rates or foreign exchange may involve significant externalities. A new program dedicated to financial sector reform is not in the offing, but this lag provides ADB an opportunity to re-enter the sector and focus on targeted subsectors such as financial inclusion and capital markets.

Project Number: 44263-013, 44263-015, 44263-016
Project Name: Inclusive Financial Sector Development Program
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A robust mechanism for continued consultation needs to be agreed on and put in place to address the fundamental issues in capital market development in Pakistan. Broadly, the program envisaged two key reforms: (i) strengthening the regulatory framework, and (ii) development and Implementation of a comprehensive capital market master plan. During program Implementation, ADB held two consultation workshops with all government and private sector stakeholders, including development partners.

Project Number: 53221-001, 53221-002, 53221-003
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Hiring a consultant to periodically collect data is crucial in monitoring and subsequently maintaining output achievements. Similarly, it will be useful for financial intermediary projects to engage a consultant to monitor the Implementation status of subprojects.

Project Number: 47305-002, 47305-004
Project Name: Horticulture Value Chain Development Project
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Policy actions should not include legislative businesses that require the approval of Parliament, which is beyond the executive branch’s control.

Project Number: 53221-001, 53221-002, 53221-003
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Constant training and practice are effective in deepening stakeholder understanding of ADB safeguard requirements and the ways they can best be met. This was proven by this project's experience with the executing agency that had no prior exposure to the concept og an environmental and social management system.

Project Number: 47305-002, 47305-004
Project Name: Horticulture Value Chain Development Project
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Experience with this program validated the four reasons for the choice the policy-based lending (PBL) programmatic approach as most suitable for the development of the finance sector of Cambodia. First, financial sector development is a gradual process that requires proper sequencing. Key foundational reforms of the banking subsector must be in place before progressing to more complex reforms of the nonbank subsector.

Project Number: 44263-013, 44263-015, 44263-016
Project Name: Inclusive Financial Sector Development Program
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Targeting core reforms is crucial to maximizing program impact. A few policy actions that are critical to improving the effectiveness and efficacy of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan could have been prioritized, rather than focusing on privatizing public sector enterprises, which can be part of a future reform program dedicated to state-owned enterprise reforms.

Project Number: 53221-001, 53221-002, 53221-003
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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The program design benefited from interaction with ADB staff preparing similar Comprehensive Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (CPRO) programs in other Pacific countries. ADB’s CPRO policy and guidelines were still being refined while the program was under Preparation. Managing the changing internal guidelines and expectations while also coordinating virtually (due to COVID-19 restrictions) with Vanuatu, ADB’s Pacific Liaison and Coordination Office, and ADB headquarters added significant pressure.

Project Number: 54179-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Fiscal Response Program
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The existence of a national sector strategy that serves as a blueprint to identify progress and near-term and future reforms needed to grow the sector is another reason for the suitability of the PBL programmatic approach. Government coordination and ownership of reforms articulated through a series of national sector strategies are necessary to ensure that financial sector development is based on predetermined steps, with each one supported by interagency coordination to achieve broad support for reforms.

Project Number: 44263-013, 44263-015, 44263-016
Project Name: Inclusive Financial Sector Development Program
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Too many implementing agencies completing too many policy actions, make progam coordination very difficult.

Project Number: 53221-001, 53221-002, 53221-003
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Basing the reporting requirements on the monitoring systems of the government’s own response plan and providing dedicated assistance for monitoring and evaluation will help reduce the burden of the government in meeting the reporting requirements of massive budget support, pandemic response programs such as the CPRO. Budget support mechanisms are relatively new for the borrower, as most development assistance is delivered as project funding or through technical assistance.

Project Number: 54179-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Fiscal Response Program
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With financial services playing a key role in supporting the growth of the real economy while promoting inclusive finance, a comprehensive reform approach supported by technical assistance (TA) is required to make the financial sector more inclusive. As the sector continues to grow and ADB funding is limited, TA and strong development partner coordination are essential to ensure financial resources are strategically targeted, to avoid overlapping or overcrowding of assistance in particular areas at the expense of others.

Project Number: 44263-013, 44263-015, 44263-016
Project Name: Inclusive Financial Sector Development Program
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Logical sequencing of reforms is crucial to maximizing the impact and sustaining the momentum of reforms.

Project Number: 53221-001, 53221-002, 53221-003
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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