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Lesson
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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Adjusting consultant management to unanticipated disruptions, e.g., restrictions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, will make project delivery more robust and resilient to challenges that arise during project implementation. The flexibility in the recruitment of consultants ensured the efficiency of this TA.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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Effective collaboration and coordination, country missions, and sustained communications are crucial to successful project implementation. The TA achieved its objectives through effective collaboration and coordination between ADB and SASEC countries. Country missions provided opportunities for course corrections when ground truthing revealed some additional risks or incorrect assumptions. Hybrid (online and offline) mode of communication allowed the TA activities to be implemented but at reduced cost.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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It is important that consultants are knowledgeable in their fields and have established relationships with the ADB team. team. Well managed working relationships result in satisfactory performance.

Project Number: 54246-001
Project Name: Impact Evaluation of Financial Technology Innovations in Selected Developing Member Countries
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Continuous monitoring and fluent communication with the consulting team coordinator can ensure on-time delivery, particularly when using teams of individual consultants.

Project Number: 55035-001
Project Name: Research for Demonstration of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies in Industrial Sectors of Yunnan Province
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Careful selection of competent experts and close consultant monitoring and coordination is essential to ensure the quality of TA outputs. As the two consultants engaged by this TA needed to work on separate topics to deliver one report, close monitoring and coordination by the ADB team proved critical to the timely attainment of consultant deliverables. Regular meetings were conducted to oversee progress, give guidance, avoid preventive abortive work, and deliver quality outputs.

Project Number: 55319-001
Project Name: Southeast Asia Aviation: COVID-19 Impact and Short-term Strategy
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Using individual consultants and resource persons provides flexibility in contract implementation. A summary recording of pertinent contract data must be kept updated to support efficient consultant management.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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This TA, however, missed the opportunity to capture knowledge adequately. Implementation experience in activities like the development of municipal bonds at the subnational government level could have been an interesting subject for knowledge products shared with other countries.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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Learning from experiences of other countries is important for knowledge building, so ADB member countries can learn from each other. This TA supported tax neutrality for the Islamic capital market as experience in Malaysia showed that this is one of the building blocks for development of Islamic finance.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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Institutional arrangements should be included for post-TA activities for sustainability and carrying over the lessons and recommendations.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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The TA supported the preparation of (i) a policy matrix for a $50 million policy_x005F_x0002_based loan, (ii) a report on a commodity mapping survey along key road corridors in Gandaki Province, (iii) institutional mapping of the agriculture sector under federalism, (iv) a report on best practices under the recently completed ADB-financed value chain project, and (v) a preliminary concept note on rice- based value chain development. These reports will provide background information for the development of a new investment project in the agriculture sector in Nepal.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Regular training and dissemination on this activity, among others, helped keep the momentum on regional energy cooperation.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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The relevant TA-produced analytical work and subsequent reports could have been more widely disseminated to foster the government counterparts’ understanding of a decisive role assigned to the market in resource allocation.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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Over the course of publishing three CSIF knowledge products, the TA could induce active involvement of the CSIF members raising awareness on the importance of regional market infrastructure for boosting intraregional investments among the members

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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The independent validation process implemented under the ACGS is good practice for knowledge building. It gives practical information on actual corporate governance practices of PLCs. Many ACMF initiatives have good traction within the region. However, awareness beyond ASEAN is limited. In addition to the existing knowledge sharing of best practices within ASEAN, future support to ACMF should also include engagement with international partners. This includes foreign academic institutions with strong private sector partnerships.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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