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The design and monitoring framework (DMF) and monitoring and reporting mechanism need to be carefully developed at the planning stage. The outcome statement of the TA was not appropriate as it is too narrow and should be more focused on the TA benefits to Maldives. Outcome targets were too ambitious since there were several contributing factors outside the scope of the TA that affected their achievements. With a small country portfolio, unexpected delays in one or two projects will make the target unachievable. Having an outcome indicator at the broader level could help avoid that.

Project Number: 52006-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Country Programming and Portfolio Management
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The DMF indicators and results chain, to effectively serve as a monitoring and evaluation tool, need to reflect the changes in TA scope and focus during implementation. Output performance indicators and targets were changed to align with the government’s requests for support to emerging priorities. The outcome statement and targets should also have been updated to reflect the changed focus of the TA which has evolved and become broader.

Project Number: 52006-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Country Programming and Portfolio Management
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Inaccurate quantitative targets of DMF indicators can be misleading and penalize performance unfairly.

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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It is essential to keep close communication with the EA during the whole implementation period to fully understand their demands and concerns and involve them for the consultant recruitment so that they can work closely together along the process. Having the best fit consulting team leader who has rich network and resources is also a big plus to the successful implementation and delivery.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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There is often a time lag between the design and implementation phases of a TA. Therefore, it is important for TAs to be implemented with adequate flexibility to address the needs of the executing and implementing agency, which may evolve during the implementation period. While it is desirable to consider the selection, method designed in the TA, minor changes in implementation arrangements should be allowed, particularly at the latter stages of TA implementation.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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At TA conceptualization, the government’s priority should be ensured to reduce the delay in approval process and commencement of activities including the adequate allocation of counterpart resources in time.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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ADB's flexibility in a minor change in scope of the TA at the request of the Government was useful to design a policy-based program in less than one year.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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The TA performance would have been more successful by ensuring closer coordination with the executing agency and other government counterparts on the implementation of TA activities as well as timely recording of implementation milestones.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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More support was required to individual WSCs and VWSA to better achieve the TA outputs but not through the originally planned support to MOC and MPI. As such, the DMF indicators should have been updated in a timely manner by ADB and the executing agency when TA changes were processed. This would have enabled the TA to correctly capture the benefits and assess whether the TA is meeting its objectives by working with selected WSCs, especially those participating in the Investment Program.

Project Number: 44002-022
Project Name: Improving Operational Performance of the Water Supply Sector
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Infrastructure development requires substantial preparedness and investment in both time and money. Particularly, a cross_x005F_x0002_border project would require more time and efforts than a national project for coordination among different jurisdictions, thus, planning and implementation arrangement would require flexibility. In addition, rapid advancement in technology would affect IT architecture design, thus, additional flexibility as well as wider involvement of various stakeholders would be desirable.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Analytical support for the preparation of sectoral roadmaps under RPJMN should commence 2 years before targeted completion date.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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The need to carefully screen support for feasibility study preparation by considering factors such as inclusion in the Blue Book and commitment letters from relevant SOEs or ministries.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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The need for adequate resourcing of the SIAP IMU to ensure effectiveness and sustainability in light of extensive reporting requirements imposed by the SIAP Steering Committee.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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ADB provides support for capital market integration through the ASEAN as well as the ASEAN+3 processes. The latter is supported by the staff in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD). While there was some coordination with ERCD staff in the implementation of this TA, more coordination is required to find synergies between the various regional finance sector TA projects. This will reduce overlaps and produce better outputs by leveraging on the strength and network of counterparts supported by different regional TA projects.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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The TA implementation experienced several changes. There had been 13 approvals for minor change in scope and implementation arrangement to engage new experts and/or revision of TOR. This could have been avoided by comprehensive need assessment of expertise and deliverables.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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