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Frequent changes of key counterparts can slow down complex studies that require access to confidential information and fluent communication.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Continuous discussions with the counterparts and early funding requests can ensure availability of financial resources for the preparation the ensuing project loan.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Preliminary discussions and participation of the executing agency during the design of the TA can be crucial to obtain strong ownership and leadership.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Trust funds and cofinancing can play a crucial role in supporting innovation and high-level technology transfer, which may not happen without such support due to limited ADB internal TA funding. Therefore, it is important that project teams pay more attention to effectively promote visibility and raise awareness of cofinancier contribution and support to ADB TAs and projects.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Constructive discussions between counterparts and experts in the form of workshops and online conference callscould help maximize the TA value addition by addressing the client’s needs.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Study tour activities may help advance innovation, as some key stakeholders would change their mindset due to the newly acquired knowledge.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Continuous ADB staff engagement during the whole project implementation may support adequate interaction and communication between the executing agency and the foreign experts, which otherwise could fail.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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The knowledge partnership with the APEC Climate Center (Busan, Republic of Korea) contributed to the incorporation of updated and highly reliable historical and projected climate data and information, and climate scenarios into the SARD RS-GIS based Climate and Disaster Risk Resilience Decision Support System. It also contributed practical strategies to mitigate the impacts and consequences of climate disasters and natural hazards, and to formulate the most appropriate climate change adaptation/mitigation measures for South Asia DMCs.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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The findings/results and lessons learned from TA activities were disseminated within ADB via in-house seminars and more widely via knowledge sharing events (trainings, workshops, seminars) in the participating South Asia DMCs.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Despite a few changes in ADB staff managing and supervising it, the TA benefited from engaging a core set of consultants who provided the institutional memory and worked closely together to undertake specialized yet interrelated assignments, ensuring work consistency, and timely delivery of quality outputs. In the participating South Asia DMCs, the TA accommodated the in-country project management protocols and, thus, enjoyed full support from the respective partner national focal agencies, including inputs from expert-level working groups and guidance from project steering committees.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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The in-country activities’ being identified through national consultations, anchored on existing collaboration mechanisms, building upon similar past and current initiatives, and close coordination with concerned national government agencies contributed to the TA’s successful implementation of activities and delivery of quality outputs.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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The TA enjoyed the benefits of engaging with national strategic partners and stakeholders to strengthen mainstreaming climate change concerns in national development planning. In particular, the TA’s output 2, which was designed to be open and flexible, helped accommodate the South Asian DMCs’ request for support for climate change–related priority capacity building activities that can be implemented within the scope of the regional TA.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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With capacity building as an excellent entry point for mainstreaming climate change in national development planning in South Asia DMCs, time-based relevant capacity building plans with appropriate institutional arrangements and streamlined coordination mechanisms will be important in achieving development objectives and sustaining outcomes.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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