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Flexibility in recommending ensuing projects was also exhibited based on the risks found during PPTA implementation.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Identifying consultants with sufficient technical and country knowledge was important to deliver quality outputs. Also, appropriate consultant selection method reduced the cost and time for processing consulting services

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Apart from regular consultation between the government and ADB, it was also important for PPTA consultants to actively facilitate communication among concerned stakeholders.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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The PPTA findings were disseminated as a publication through the ADB website which allowed easy access to various interested parties.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Ownership and commitment of the government and other stakeholders should be ensured to successfully deliver the planned results. In this PPTA, stakeholder participation was high as it was designed to support one of the government’s top priorities (Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission) and power sector targets

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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The government facilitated donor coordination including the World Bank and New Development Bank to achieve the target under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. This contributed to the achievement of the government’s target in January 2018, four years ahead.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Due to target achieved ahead of schedule under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, the government has set a new ambitious target of achieving 100 GW of solar power by 2022.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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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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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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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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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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As envisaged in the TA’s risk analysis, changes in government and weak government support for the project can create risks in the implementation of the TA. Fortunately, team efforts at the resident mission and the increase of government support created consistency of the TA with the ADB country partnership strategy for Kazakhstan for 2017–2021 that commits extensive support to water and agriculture sectors, indicating IWRM as a key area for intervention. The TA was designed to highlight an existing knowledge gap using the best technical applications.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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The water sector in Kazakhstan and in the region was not in the ADB portfolio for more than a decade which created a knowledge vacuum about the sector’s complexity. The TA’s outputs were heavily dependent on the government’s decision to create a new water entity. The previous government which was involved in TA’s concept paper seemed to agree that this would be made available, however, due to the lack of commitment from the new government agencies, the TA experienced difficulties during its implementation.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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The performance of the consultants was highly satisfactory. The international consultant responsible for first two outputs was very efficient in managing inputs to respond to the changing situations and needs on the ground. The consultants for the two pilot projects were very knowledgeable and had good communication skills to coordinate the projects with local teams. They were highly regarded by the executing agency and the implementation agencies.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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The capacity building activities transferred best practices to government agencies, academia, and researchers through trainings, workshops, and field activities. Nine events (Appendix 3) under the TA were organized before and during the TA’s implementation relating to IWRM issues where the total number of participants reached approximately 560 persons from different organizations. ADB should consider to include more training and learning exercises to be included in similar TA projects to provide more opportunities for local experts and consultants to gain first-hand knowledge.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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