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TA designs can better consider the need for a large pool of international consultants where tasks may be fulfilled within one consultant position. Due to the absence of qualified applicants for one international consultant position, it was necessary to merge the tasks of this position with that of a separately recruited specialist. This had no adverse effect on TA implementation or success and produced savings. However, TA designs could give closer consideration to such a merging of roles when practical, rather than recruiting a larger number of consultants than may actually be needed.

Project Number: 48010-001
Project Name: Study on Local Financial Market Development and Supervisory Framework
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The use of lump-sum contract has made the contract management much easier and cost effective. Contract was implemented within budget and schedule. Staff time was efficiently utilized, and administrative burden was reduced due to flexibility of managing a lump-sum contract.

Project Number: 52320-001
Project Name: Preliminary Assessment for Dili Airport Runway Project Upgrading Project
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The provision of individual consultants and having a national team leader presented some challenges in terms of coordination among the TA consultants and preparation of the consultant reports in English. Use of a consulting firm instead of individual consultants and having an international TA consultant as a team leader with good ADB experience would avoid such problems.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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It is essential to ensure quality of the TA consultants (TOR) when preparing the TA project, especially for the team leader so that communication requirements including reporting among the consultants and EA as well as ADB project officer are clearly specified and understood by all parties. When consultants are recruited on individual basis, it is important to have a strong team leader who plays a key role in managing the team and communicating with the EA. It is also important to have the team leader report to the project officer regularly as needed.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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After changes of the IA, it had been challenging to meet the new client’s expectation based on previously developed Terms of Reference for the consultants. It took quite some efforts to ensure effective management of the consultant and the resource persons involved.

Project Number: 42417-045
Project Name: Vertical Mobility and Safety Improvement
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When a TA project is significantly different from what ADB has done before, and where therefore ADB and consultants have to collectively figure out how it will be implemented, a quality-based selection method may work better than a quality and cost-based selection. It gives teams the flexibility to choose the consultant who has the best experience and ideas, rather than one who is the least costly.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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To efficiently handle financial and administrative matters of the TA project, a finance and administration assistant should be recruited in addition to the coordinator.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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It is not only the competence of consultants that is important but also their ability to navigate the consultant management system that determines timely closure of TA accounts.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The stability of the ADB TA team and core staff of the TA executing agency from design stages to completion contributed to the achievement of the TA outputs and outcome, despite the change of director at the TA executing and implementing agencies in inception stages of TA implementation. ADB recruited, guided, and monitored the TA consultants, and ensured the quality of the TA outputs (milestone reports). Qualified international and national industry development experts were difficult to find, and the experts had been replaced a few times during TA implementation.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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The use of individual consultants allowed the selection of consultants with specific skills to successfully complete the work. The active participation of ADB’s headquarters-based staff was key to the TA’s success––headquarters staff were actively involved in the TA and joined for at least a part in all the missions.

Project Number: 50311-001
Project Name: Education Sector Assessment
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Preparing the terms of reference, finding good consultants, and managing the consultants’ outputs are not easy tasks for most ADB staff who don’t have previous experience on ICT projects. Taking advantage of the SDCC-DT’s position as a coordination unit for ICT in operation, the TA project helped compile ADB’s ongoing and planned ICT projects and proactively approached the project officers proposing technical support to operational departments. The TA project mobilized ICT experts, both individual and/or consulting firms, in consideration of the nature of the technical assistance required.

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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Recruitment of multiple individual consultants may be avoided, if possible. Eligibility for national consultants may be extended to other developing members of ADB to attract a better pool of consultants.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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Although the overall performance of the consultants and ADB staff was satisfactory considering all the work that was accomplished, monitoring of consultants by ADB staff, with support from WGA focal points and coordinators in each GMS country, can be improved further by allocating more time by ADB staff and WGA focal points.

Project Number: 39542-022
Project Name: Implementing the Greater Mekong Subregion Core Agriculture Support Program (Phase 2)
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