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In addition, conducting a midterm review provides opportunities for TA projects, particularly, cluster TA projects to improve its design, implementation, and monitoring of progress. This was a missed opportunity during the implementation of this cluster RETA. Data and findings from these reviews could have been maximized by ADB. Review findings could have not only fed into the design of subproject 2 but also to the overall design of the cluster RETA. This can result in better monitoring, particularly providing quantitative evidence on the achievements of the cluster RETA.

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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In addition, designing a complex cluster TA requires a conduct of a detailed risks assessment (i.e., risk strategy matrix vs. DMF statements), involving extensive consultations with the stakeholders. This was apparently done for subproject 2 but was not evident for the cluster RETA.

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 improvements in the design were only done for subproject 2, while the overall DMF of the cluster RETA was left unchanged. This resulted in a disconnect and unclear results chain links between subproject 2’s narrowed focus and the cluster RETA’s outcome and outputs at appraisal. In a TA cluster, any changes in the subprojects require a revisit of the cluster TA’s DMF. The timely and critical review of preceding subproject(s) of a cluster TA project helped in ensuring that emerging issues and needs from stakeholders are addressed appropriately within the cluster TA project’s timeframe.

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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In addition, providing a policy and advisory TA to this type of initiative can help the discussion and negotiations among and between policymakers. Findings and recommendations from data-driven and evidence-based technical studies and outputs produced by the TA can increase the reliability of ADB in policy dialogue. Communicating this body of knowledge to policymakers can generate deeper knowledge among them and at the same time, help foster and strengthen ADB’s involvement in the process.

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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As the project aimed to achieve development impacts in WSP, BDA and PMO should have had a greater presence in WSP, and a greater involvement with the WSPA as the project was delivered. The location of BDA headquarters in Port Moresby may have limited the rate of development of WSP into a dynamic growth center for PNG.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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The use of CSTB procurement system and associated NEC approval process, while somewhat improved from past ADB projects, involves inevitable delays in procurement and should, where possible, be avoided through direct procurement by BDA, even if it requires close ADB training and supervision.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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The government’s inconsistent support to the law enforcement agents in the province, ineffective project grievance redress mechanisms, and lack off effective coordination and consultations within the subnational levels of governments and within BDA to address environment and social issues resulted in landowners allegedly acting unlawfully and harming a project team member.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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An important project impact relied upon the government to implement specific investment policies through DCI, as well as a telecommunication solution for WSP to provide an environment that would enable WSP’s development into a dynamic growth-center for PNG. Inactivity on these commitments substantially delayed and lost impetus in the achievement of potential project benefits.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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The government frequently fails to meet their timely commitment of project funding assumed at appraisal. However, it is difficult to attach conditionality of ADB funding to the timely contribution of government funding. Therefore, the government’s counterpart shares have been reduced for PNG projects.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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A key issue was the abolition of BDA at a crucial stage of project benefit creation and realization. Although the project had completed implementation of the civil works and the consultancy services contracts, the creation and realization of project benefits has not been achieved due to the failure of the borrower to utilize the project outputs. The longer the border administration complex buildings remain unoccupied, the more difficult it will be to re-energize the commercial sector in WSP and generate the anticipated project benefits.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Many PNG projects have poor compliance with DMF monitoring due to (i) lack of undertaking baseline studies, (ii) limited measurements of DMF target progress during implementation, and (iii) a lack of BDA who draft and complete a project PCR prior to loan closing. ADB review missions need to monitor these compliance issues more closely and require submission of an updated DMF table prior to each review mission.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Border housing compliance with WSP building and electrical installation standards as well as the apparent substandard quality of this housing highlights the importance of the quality of the construction supervision consultants and BDA’s ability to monitor and manage contracts.

Project Number: 42135-013
Project Name: Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project
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Lessons and experiences from the regional TA proved useful in the up_x005F_x0002_scaling to loan projects for the RIBS projects in Mongolia, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. Potential RIBS projects are in the country operations business plans for Uzbekistan and other countries in the region.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Early understanding of JFPR guidelines and classification of eligible and non-eligible expenditures can help allocate these funds to critical TA activities and reduce cost overestimates.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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The development of knowledge products is insufficient to build capacity and support uptake of findings by partners. Using appropriate dissemination pathways is important in engaging relevant stakeholders and decision makers to adopt the key messages. The main dissemination pathways for the JCC case study and the three CBM reports seem to be through presentations to relevant authorities and targeted training activities to strengthen awareness, institutional capacity, standards, and policies.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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