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Based on the experience from this TA, comprehensive contingency plans need to be in place to address potential disruptions or changes in future energy projects. These plans should account for geopolitical, economic, and environmental factors. Moreover, it is important to encourage diversification of energy sources to reduce reliance on a single resource. Exploring renewable energy options, such as solar, wind, and hydropower, to enhance the resilience of energy projects and prioritizing sustainability in all energy projects are particularly important in this regard.

Project Number: 44184-012
Project Name: Afghanistan and Turkmenistan: Regional Power Interconnection Project
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Geopolitical shifts, market dynamics, and government decisions could impact project continuity. This was shown by the TA which highlighted challenges in ensuring the continuation of projects beyond the TA phase.

Project Number: 44184-012
Project Name: Afghanistan and Turkmenistan: Regional Power Interconnection Project
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ADB needs to be persistent in organizing outreach endeavors to update SASEC countries’ officials, ministries of power, sector regulators, planning agencies, and other stakeholders about significant trends in regional cooperation. It can build upon and maximize the results of this TA which has played a crucial role in enabling SASEC members to develop a conducive environment for investment decisions and project design in cross border electricity trade and regional gas cooperation.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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Lack of adjustments in the design and monitoring framework (DMF), despite changes in TA priority and activities, could cause changes in counterparty priorities, expectations, and levels of commitment to a tax reform project. This TA's priority and activities were adjusted in response to the changed needs and business circumstances of the State Tax Service and the Ministry of Finance. However, no corresponding changes were made to the DMF, prompting changes to counterparty attitude and response to the tax reform project.

Project Number: 53105-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity
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Current TA rating methodologies, which require reaching certain budget expenditure levels, can disincentivize appropriate cost management and encourage prioritizing budget use over project objectives.

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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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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Coherent support by all multilateral development banks, especially when being a first mover in a particular sector, is invaluable. The series of Power Sector Reform Roundtable co-organized by ADB, EBRD, and the World Bank starting in July 2019 provided a platform for this coordinated approach and later provided cofinancing opportunities for the organizers and other development partners.

Project Number: 52322-002
Project Name: Preparing Sustainable Energy Investment Projects
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A donor coordination platform is helpful in harmonizing reform initiatives and identifying cofinancing opportunities while tracking progress. The government’s donor coordination platform between ADB, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank played a critical role in harmonizing and developing directions, and in sharing different international experiences.

Project Number: 52322-002
Project Name: Preparing Sustainable Energy Investment Projects
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While the TA was categorized as a knowledge and support TA originally, the flexibility adopted by ADB with the minor change in scope actually turned the TA into a transaction TA, combining studies to be used for future project preparation, with detailed design for the program approved in 2019.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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While the SASEC EE roadmap and action plan were approved and the implementation guidelines were formulated, the SASEC and Sri Lanka regional coordination center needs to be created as recommended to ensure continuity in the actions, consistency and fairness in the implementation of the various EE programs, and that a proper dissemination of the results obtained is systematically implemented and cumulative benefits will result from the implementation of the SASEC EE roadmap and action plan.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Lack of information related to sensitivity of data led to change in research locations for pilot projects. Thus, it is important for a TA design to determine if data collection might be subject to any sensitivity (confidentiality restriction).

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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The final approval of the concept on the establishment of KKC-IWRM was made on 17 September 2019 before the TA’s completion at considerable effort from the staff and with limited support from the government.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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Countries have shown a lot of interest and commitment for cross-border power trade activities. However, such activities take longer time to fulfill their respective processes and requirements and continuous facilitation support.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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Multilateral cooperation: MEE and its Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO), as the implementing agency, has provided counterparty staff and support to coordinate workshops and training arrangements.

Project Number: 48472-001
Project Name: Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Investment in Asia and the Pacific
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Our TA had specific criteria for selection of the three DMCs, as per paragraph 14 of the TA report (https://www.adb.org/projects/docu ments/implementing-ict- tools-data_x005F_x0002_collection-and-management_x005F_x0002_national-surveys-sdg-tar). The selection process was therefore open to all DMCs, and the process was more demand driven.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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