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The TA results demonstrate the need for close coordination among development partners and with local civil society organizations not only during implementation but also at the project preparatory phase.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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The designation of the Workforce Development Center as focal agency for the SFK was appropriate. However, its participation in the TA was delayed because of lengthy procedures. For future similar TA projects, ADB should carefully assess government counterpartss readiness, ownership, and capacity to deliver planned outputs and also request toassign properly authorized representatives in the TA implementation units.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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It is important to build awareness on the SFK in the rural areas to increase their uptake and benefits from the initiative.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Tapping into existing broad women's networks has the potential of involving the most number of women in projects.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Knowledge dissemination needs to be undertaken in local language (Kazakh and Russian in this case) to be effective.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Aligning TA deliverables to the knowledge needs articulated and defined by governments enhances the value proposition and value addition of ADB technical assistance to developing member countries. In this case, the significant knowledge delivered by the TA on the impact of COVID-19 on the labor market and foresights into the emerging skills and professions in the post-pandemic environment provided critical inputs to the development of the Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan (AFK) and related policies.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Regular meetings with management teams allow the timely identification of project needs and monitoring of TA implementation. Close collaboration with development enhances TA implementation, e.g., the generation of inputs from the United Nations Development Programme to consultants’ terms of reference in this TA helped promote the efficacious delivery of outputs .

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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TA implementation could be more challenging due to the involvement of different stakeholders. For future similar TA projects, it is recommended that ADB consider direct financing and independent administration. This will put implementation and consultants’ recruitment under project team control.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Proactive consultations and policy dialogue with development partners enable the identification and avoidance of potential duplications in technical assistance and other projects. The project team designed the TA based on a request from the Ministry of National Economy to support the government’s effort in fighting COVID-19 impacts. However, the project team observed potential duplications between the scope of the Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan (SFK) and support measures taken by the government and development partners.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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Development partners, such as the World Bank, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), have been working alongside ADB in supporting the 4Ps program that has led the Department of Social Welfare and Development to request for joint review missions.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) program did not increase the number of children fully immunized before 1 year of age or collect complete data during the impact evaluation rounds on the share of beneficiary children aged 6–14 years of age who were working. It is recommended that future support to the 4Ps program include technical assistance to support the government to identify key issues preventing immunization before 1 year of age and ensure robust M&E of children’s attendance in school and participation in work and labor activities.

Project Number: 43407-013
Project Name: Social Protection Support Project
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At project appraisal, staff turnover in government agencies including project implementing units (PIUs) was identified as a risk. It could have been prudent for the resident mission to provide insight into mitigation measures based on experience in other ADB projects and those of other development partners, particularly in ensuring proper repository of project documents to facilitate the efficient transfer of project responsibilities to new PIU staff.

Project Number: 45010-002
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Completion of project activities relied heavily on consultant inputs without coordination with specific departments in the executing and implementing agencies to enable capacity building and integration. Implementation arrangements during project design could have identified departments whose purpose aligned with the project initiatives to ensure sustainability upon project completion

Project Number: 45010-002
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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It is prudent to consider providing project implementation support through a better-staffed consulting to mitigate existing capacity gaps in project agencies. At project appraisal, ADB identified the executing agency as having limited experience with ADB projects; yet it was made responsible for leading project performance tracking by the proect implementation unit (PIU), with the support of only two individual consultants for a short term. Changes in government exacerbated the lack of leadership and management capacity of the PIU.

Project Number: 45010-002
Project Name: Skills for Employment Project
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Implementation arrangements are critical to the success of projects. Initial implementation progress under this project was mixed: while output 2 was progressing according to schedule, outputs 1 and 3 were not. At ADB's instance, the implementing agency (IA), the Baise University instituted reforms in the implementation arrangements, with the Vice President of the university replacing the project leading groups.

Project Number: 47009-002
Project Name: Guangxi Baise Vocational Education Development Project
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