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Designation of an alternate TA team leader despite resource constraints is necesssary to ensure seamless project continuity and institutional knowledge transfer. It will also mitigate potential disruptions caused by staff turnover.

Project Number: 54344-001
Project Name: Supporting the Establishment of a CAREC Regional Infrastructure Projects Enabling Facility
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Designation of existing consultants to higher positions and responsibility levels may be explored to fill vacancies during implementation. There were two changes to the team leader position. The first was due to the resignation of the specialist because of an unexpected urgent assignment from his hiring university. The consultant recruited as the replacement team leader was not capable of performing the role. Instead of going through contract termination and recruitment process again, the TA team appointed the national simulation specialist, who had demonstrated strong leadership.

Project Number: 54037-001
Project Name: Innovation-Driven Green Economic Diversification for Resource-Exhausted Cities in Heilongjiang
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Frequent review missions are crucial to overcoming implementation challenges. The TA was administered by staff located in head office with good support from the Pakistan Resident Mission. However, ADB staff assignment changed during the TA implementation period; and the limitations and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic induced challenges to consultant management and client interaction. Frequent review missions significantly helped address these challenges.

Project Number: 51249-003
Project Name: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project
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Responding to the government’s changing needs and external factors could cause delays in the delivery of expected TA outputs particularly capacity building activities. Furthermore, organizational restructuring of revenue agencies, as well as frequent turnover of counterpart staff meant that capacity building was constantly in repeat mode. Addressing these issues could lead to efficiency gains and could help the government reach key performance targets quicker.

Project Number: 53105-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity
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Implementation of TA activities in the finance sector should actively engage the private sector so that the policies developed by MOF and OJK are relevant and effective. A good example is the diagnosis of tax neutrality for the Islamic capital market, which included significant consultation with issuers, legal and tax experts, banks and capital market intermediaries. This feature is a good practice and should be replicated in other TAs.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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It is advisable to secure and document the commitment of the government on adopting and/or incorporating the lessons and recommendations from the TA in similar initiatives or interventions in the future, including the participation of relevant stakeholders for enhanced sustainability.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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The TA supported a wide range of stakeholder consultations with the private sector, subject matter experts, and the Government on key policy bottlenecks in the agriculture sector in Nepal. These interactions led to the identification of critical reforms towards strengthening the Government's capacity for ensuring the food safety, a serious public health concern in Nepal.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Bringing together the relevant government stakeholders such as the ministries-in-charge of energy, the power utilities and transmission utilities, and the regulatory agencies in the intergovernmental meetings helped to further the discussions more effectively at both policy and technical levels.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Stakeholder participation and consultation are both crucial for the relevance of project design.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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Since the CSIF, which the TA supports has been a regional discussion platform under the ABMI TF4, consensus among members on subject matters was, and is, essential. To ensure regional consensus, the combination of inducing active participation of the members and engaging close consultation with ASEAN+3 government officials is quite important. In addition, further engagement with the private sector is more desirable, though the preference of the members is still informal and closed.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Stakeholder participation and engagement were critical, especially for multi development partners funded projects because it boosts coordination among various parties, which eventually helps the project achieve its intended outcome and outputs. The co-financers and development partners were fully engaged throughout the TA implementation.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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Bringing together relevant government stakeholders facilitates more effective and meaningful discussions both on policy and technical aspects.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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A wide range of stakeholders, including the DOE, DWASA, local government agencies, local communities, industries, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were involved in the TA implementation, which ensured the relevance and ownership of the TA activities and outputs. Development partners, such as AFD, European Investment Bank (EIB), and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) have actively participated and effectively used the TA’s results

Project Number: 42173-014
Project Name: Strengthening Monitoring and Enforcement in the Meghna River for Dhaka's Sustainable Water Supply
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High level political commitment and active stakeholder participation is crucial. The Ministers’ decision to meet more often (up to twice a year rather than every three years) proved an effective incentive for countries to deliver the agreed follow up, as officials needed to report positive progress in their respective countries at the ministerial meetings.

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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PRIF partner and stakeholder involvement and participation in PRIF activities, including attendance at SWG coordination meetings or support to the 51 subprojects’ implementation committees. Among the key challenges met was the wide range of assistance expectations from the PRIF partners and the stakeholders and the reconciliation of those expectations with the available PRIF CO resources. This was achieved through the dynamic “management committee/SWG” driven work prioritization mechanism.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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