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All the output and activity requirements to achieve planned outcomes need to be identified and mapped out in a clear implementation plan with well-defined targets and a definite timeframe. The original project design overlooked securing donor funding as a key output for establishing the Facility. The proposed timeline for stakeholder consultations was overly optimistic.

Project Number: 54344-001
Project Name: Supporting the Establishment of a CAREC Regional Infrastructure Projects Enabling Facility
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Extensions in project implementation period provide opportunities not only to fully achieve but also enhance project results. In this case, the agreement on TA extension was premised not only on overcoming delays due to COVID-19 but also to facilitate additional safeguards and technical studies which provided better upstream guidance to the detailed design phase of the ensuing project the TA supported.

Project Number: 51249-003
Project Name: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project
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Close communication and timely adjustments in implementation arrangements help minimize the impact of disruptions and ensure TA completion within the original or revised timeframes.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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For TA requiring knowledge product publication, the Department of Communication and Knowledge Management, ADB needs to be consulted early in TA implementation. This would have helped prevent TA implementation period to be extended by 8 months partly to ensure the quality of the knowledge product.

Project Number: 55319-001
Project Name: Southeast Asia Aviation: COVID-19 Impact and Short-term Strategy
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A longer implementation is required for complex TA projects. The TA was designed to support the development of a new economic corridor development (ECD) framework and operational guidelines that apply to the Central and West Asian countries and beyond. Taking lessons from other long-term ECD-related TAs, the TA could have been designed for a longer time frame from the start, with a more realistic timeline for completion, given the complexity of the ECD and the COVID-19- related constraints. A regular TA, instead of a small-scale TA, could have been a better option.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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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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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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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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This validation notes that the TA on "Early Harvest" Implementation of the Cross-Border Transport and Trade Facilitation in the GMS, was approved on 22 October 2020, with an amount of $1.5 million financed by the United Kingdom Fund for Asia Regional Trade and Connectivity under the Regional Cooperation and Integration Financing Partnership Facility (footnote 19). The TA report indicated that it has been designed to build on the outputs delivered by the present 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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Subsequent TA to continue support to transport services liberalization in the GMS is being finalized. Funding of $1,500,000 under United Kingdom Government of Asia Regional Trade and Connectivity Fund has been secured.

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 TA’s main output was to formulate the plan on the KKC-IWRM’s establishment for water issues consistent with the government’s vision. The MEGNR will use the structure for the existing institution and strengthen its capacity with proposed recommendations and the best available international experience. Under its supervision, the Committee for Water Resources reorganized the then existing methodological center, KazAgroMelioVodKhoz, into a center for water issues in Kazakhstan which led to the establishment of the KKC-IWRM.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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Updating of cross-border transmission lines master plan along with the inclusion of Myanmar, facilitating further dialogue for actual implementation of cross-border transmission line, and exploring possibilities for inter-subregional power trade (e.g., with Central and West Asia) will be pursued through follow on TA projects.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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Since PowerFactory became the primary system planning platform, KEGOC is planning to procure additional licenses and modules from DIgSILENT in 2020 using its own resources.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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The TA outputs have provided a base on which future interventions could be tailored. This includes the government support for implementation of innovation strategy roadmap, resources allocated for new export insurance products, as well as the MOE commitment to maintain and further develop the trade portal as a tool to support investors and exporters.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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In 2018, ADB has approved a TRTA for an amount of $1,500,0009 to continue and expand activities under this TA.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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