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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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Effective transport and logistics planning require a multi-stakeholder approach, particularly in a central hub and trade location such as Urumqi. Therefore, capacity building and knowledge sharing needed to bridge across multiple departments and agencies outside of UCTRC and Urumqi city that usually do not work together or share plans and data. The use of participatory, multi-stakeholder workshops and training sessions enabled the consultants to gain stakeholder feedback and understand the priorities from government departments outside of UCTRC.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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During implementation, it became clear that the executing agency did not have sufficient influence or authority to be able to effectively gather insights and information from key stakeholders as needed for the TA. The involvement of the DOF was crucial to the TA’s effectiveness. Involving the DOF as executing agency would have likely led to more efficient delivery of the TA. Further, the UCTRC was not familiar with ADB or the purpose of ADB technical assistance.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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The TA was designed to draw lessons from international case studies and relied heavily on international consultants. Although this has its merits, the importance of being able to localize these case studies to the context of the Urumqi Metropolitan Area, and to have the reports in Chinese was underestimated in the initial design. The inclusion of local technical experts such as university professors may have helped to improve the localization aspects of the design, and improved communication in both Chinese and English.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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The institutional structures of both RTAD and DOH are still weak in addressing identified road safety and maintenance issues. It is recommended that RTAD should establish a road safety section to strengthen its leadership, and DOH should establish RAMS unit to act as [an] engine room to enhance the planning process. To attract interest of private contractors to participate in maintenance works, together with providing capacity building trainings for the contractors, MOC should advocate [for a] strategy of road maintenance based on appropriate investment plan.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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The TA’s design was aligned with the National Transport Sector Development Master Plan developed with assistance from JICA. The TA generated network with JICA through workshop and informal discussion, which contributed to enhance quality of outputs.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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Much bigger and more systematic safety issues need to be tackled, including safety technologies in vehicles, legal and compliance systems, some of which is under other agencies. Road safety needs its own investment focus through a multi-sectoral governance system. It is recommended that policy dialogues of needed institutional arrangements across the government stakeholders will continue during the implementation of ADB-financed projects.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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Road safety agenda was not highly prioritized in DOH and understanding of road safety engineering was limited. To enhance efficiency of the developed training program, further strengthening of road safety engineering section and investment prioritization on road safety program are required. Road maintenance program also does not have high profile in DOH, and capacity of potential contractors is limited. Continuous training support is recommended under ADB financed projects, to ensure the sustainability of the TA results.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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Combining project preparation with a sizable capacity development agenda helped deepen ADB’s engagement in the sector, leading ADB to finance a large investment project.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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Improvement of institutional structures and internal procedures of the government within this TA’s timeframe was challenging, particularly under the paper-based administration process. Further support for data collection and analysis system will be needed.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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The TA was scaled-up quite significantly from $2 million to $3.9 million. This enabled the project team to be responsive to client’s demands by drawing on the same consulting services to support on multiple technical studies.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Cofinancing partner was updated regularly on key milestones and developments of the TA.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The regional workshops conducted under the TA has proven to be an effective means of engaging with the DMCs to share knowledge generated through the TA, and to maintain policy dialogue to co-create investment project pipeline.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Knowledge sharing was done primarily through regional workshops attended by the Pacific DMCs.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The project was completed with strong support from field offices.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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