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The TA design should include extensive stakeholder engagement including those that may not be directly involved in the TA. This should consist of focus group discussions with stakeholders in a particular sector (banking, capital market) or thematic activities (financial inclusion, financial literacy, consumer protection). Such engagement will increase ownership of TA activities among national stakeholders on proposed activities which will subsequently reduce delays in implementation.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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Consultation with development partners is also important to increase synergy and reduce duplication. This was an aspect of the TA design that could have been improved as some activities proposed overlapped with those supported by other development partners (FKSSK action plan and branchless banking workshops).Resources for these activities were reallocated to other equally important activities that contributed to the outcome during the implementation stage.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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Before committing TA resources, the timeline and output targets should be aligned with the government’s ongoing priority and programs so that start-up delays could be minimized, and output targets remain achievable.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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A TA for $500,000 is piggybacked to the Food Safety and Agriculture Commercialization Program to support the Government in meeting the second tranche policy actions. TA resources will also be required to prepare the detailed design of the new investment project that is being discussed with the Government, given the Government's weak capacity for project development.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Prior consultation with countries targeted to participate should be done extensively during preparation of the TA. For the subproject, the convenient process of TA approval helped to mobilize necessary resources for these supplementary activities in a timely manner.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Broad alignment of the TA support with key reform areas contributed to the relevance of TA design.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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Careful selection and timely update of DMF indicators are crucial, along with a better understanding of the clients and their likely needs. The TA was designed to improve the institutional framework of water supply services through improving business practices of selected WSCs. The critical challenge was that the TA aimed to support the sector reform process in the middle of its transition. Considering the uncertainties of the reform, the TA outcome of supporting the country’s water sector through directly improving WSCs’ business practices was a logical and reasonable approach.

Project Number: 44002-022
Project Name: Improving Operational Performance of the Water Supply Sector
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Importance of demand-driven, timely and targeted knowledge and policy advisory support as advised to ADB by the EA of SIAP with respect to the SIAP TA cluster management facility.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Procedural requirements such as Steering Committee endorsements and counterpart no_x005F_x0002_objections, can trigger delays and should, therefore, be carefully considered when designing a realistic timeframe for TA implementation.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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PEDP III had 626 audit observations. Adequate training to the executing agencies on compliance with financial rules and regulation should have been provisioned under the TA, which could have improved the financial compliance and resulted in fewer audit observations.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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A new TA (TA 9276-BAN: Support to Primary Education Development) was approved in 2016 to continue support to PEDP III fiduciary oversight and PFM improvement

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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In the absence of follow-on larger intervention, some of the important envisaged achievements, such as, the regional nodal agency, cooperation on sharing of the data and best practices were not implemented. Establishing a regional nodal agency is highly recommended.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The rationale of the TA was generally well-articulated. The TA design could have been formulated better in terms of outputs and outcome. Distinct performance indicators for outcome and outputs could have provide better opportunities to evaluate the TA results. Also, having realistic and achievable targets is crucial considering implementation realities and timeframe.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The DOE’s TA proposal for strengthening monitoring and enforcement in the Meghna River was consistent with Country Partnership Strategy 2011–2015 for urban sector program on expanding access to clean water supply in Dhaka. While the design was technically sound, the TA could have been considered for 5 years as the intended objective was to support the Loan 3051/8292-BAN to keep an oversight on the source water quality and to be able to continue the policy dialogue with the government.

Project Number: 42173-014
Project Name: Strengthening Monitoring and Enforcement in the Meghna River for Dhaka's Sustainable Water Supply
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AFD and Dutch government have initiated small-scale TA projects to continue their support for protection of the Meghna River.

Project Number: 42173-014
Project Name: Strengthening Monitoring and Enforcement in the Meghna River for Dhaka's Sustainable Water Supply
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