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More frequent and direct in-person contact with the executing agency is advisable for future similar endeavors. Despite the adverse work circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the performance of the consulting firm and its experts was satisfactory. The project team als administered the TA satisfactorily. Nonetheless more frequent, person-to-person interaction is advised in future similar TA.

Project Number: 54092-001
Project Name: Institutional Support to the National Quality Center for Road Assets
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Sustained efforts to strengthen relationships with government counterparts and other stakeholders, and direct communications with key project staff are essential for the successful implementation of knowledge TA and similar initiatives.

Project Number: 54092-001
Project Name: Institutional Support to the National Quality Center for Road Assets
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Joint activities with development partners (DPs), such as collaboration in knowledge products and joint conduct of capacity-building activities, could maximize synergies and resources further. These could build on close coordination and relationships developed by this project among CAREC countries, as well with DPs which the project team strengthened through regular communication and information exchange, and by inviting the DPs to TA workshops and consultation meetings.

Project Number: 53198-001
Project Name: Developing a Disaster Risk Transfer Facility in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Region
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Lack of communication could negatively impact engagement quality. The outbreak of COVID-19 during TA implementation affected consultant ability to engage stakeholders, government participation, and contribution by the international consultants. Despite significant efforts by the ADB resident mission and the consultants, communication between the ADB team and MOFALI were sometimes dependent on consultants, which reduced the quality of engagement.

Project Number: 53035-001
Project Name: Sustainable Fodder Management
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As clients may not be able to keep pace with ADB's movement toward more advanced digitalization technologies, diversified communication channels and personal engagement will remain important aspects of implementation.

Project Number: 53035-001
Project Name: Sustainable Fodder Management
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There are several line ministries involved in property tax management, i.e., national and local tax administration, land management, and judicial agencies. Upfront participation of and effective communications with these stakeholders, alongside increased ownership of TA outputs, are critical to ensure project success and sustainability. The involvement of resident missions by conducting stakeholder analysis and ensuring ownership of government stakeholders is critical in this regard.

Project Number: 54076-001
Project Name: Strengthening Property Tax Management to Enhance Local Revenue
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Effective communication with implementing teams on the approach and strategic plans for TA implementation is important.

Project Number: 54076-001
Project Name: Strengthening Property Tax Management to Enhance Local Revenue
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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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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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Trust funds and cofinancing can play a crucial role in supporting innovation and high-level technology transfer, which may not happen without such support due to limited ADB internal TA funding. Therefore, it is important that project teams pay more attention to effectively promote visibility and raise awareness of cofinancier contribution and support to ADB TAs and projects.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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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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