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The knowledge partnership with the APEC Climate Center (Busan, Republic of Korea) contributed to the incorporation of updated and highly reliable historical and projected climate data and information, and climate scenarios into the SARD RS-GIS based Climate and Disaster Risk Resilience Decision Support System. It also contributed practical strategies to mitigate the impacts and consequences of climate disasters and natural hazards, and to formulate the most appropriate climate change adaptation/mitigation measures for South Asia DMCs.

Project Number: 46470-001
Project Name: Action on Climate Change in South Asia
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Continue the partnership with other international agencies like FAO so as not to duplicate work being done in the pilot DMCs. Sharing of resources with other agencies would also lead to an expansion of benefits to more DMCs, as witnessed within this TA.

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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Not applicable. The TA did not involve agencies other than the executing agency, KEGOC, and the consultant and/or contractor. The TA was financed by the Clean Energy Fund under the Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Staff turnover in implementing agencies created challenges during the project implementation. Strong partnership with executing and implementing agencies, as well as with donor partners, allowed to coordinate the activities and contributed to achieving outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Partnership with institutions, like the International Monetary Fund and those from developed counterparts like the Bank of Italy, has enabled us to work together and tap relevant expertise.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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The TA was solely funded by ADB, where the government provided [an] in-kind contribution. Cofinancing opportunities could have been explored with a condition that ADB intended outcomes will prevail.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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The TA was financed by the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund, Strategic Climate Fund, and SREP funds. The cofinancers made the resources available to ADB immediately after approval of the TA. The cofinanciers monitored the progress from time to time. However, the TA design could have developed a formal communication and networking framework with cofinanciers.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Cofinancing partner was updated regularly on key milestones and developments of the TA.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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IFC and HSBC benefited from ADB’s work when it was unable to lend.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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Development partners are willing to support national policy reforms when the country shows clarity and leadership. Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund additional financing allowed the TA to develop with the government innovative approaches, particularly to include IT-based solutions in the health services management.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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Close exchange with the GCF Secretariat as well as with other multilateral development banks and development partners accredited to the GCF has been helpful for understanding the investment criteria of climate financiers. The TA benefited from cofinancing by the NDF which was mobilized during TA implementation.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The regional TA financing was by JFPR. Japanese visibility was ensured through sharing Japan’s rich experience in customs modernization. Japanese resource persons presented at the workshops/events where Japanese organizations were engaged. These largely contributed to the success of the TA in achieving its intended outcome and outputs. The TA had close coordination and partnership with technical experts from relevant units of the WCO.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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When building a new partnership, it is important to carefully assess partners’ capacity, provide prior guidance on ADB’s required procedures and expectations, and select the right partnership modalities to avoid the unexpectedly high transaction costs to make the partnership work.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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International conferences on eco_x005F_x0002_compensation and PES served as an important knowledge sharing platform to advocate for collaboration between the public sector, private sector, and civil society in achieving conservation finance (i.e. through transboundary watershed management, public-private partnership in eco-compensation for poverty alleviation, and eco_x005F_x0002_compensation performance measurement).

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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The TA enabled active collaboration among ADB, implementing agencies and the following institutions and international networks which added significant value to the TA’s outcome and outputs:(i) International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - data collection for snow coverage in Afghanistan, and participation to give a lecture at regional workshop in Nepal.(ii) Water and Disaster Management Bureau, Ministry of Land,Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan - arrangement, lectures, and site visits for the study tour in Japan.(iii) NARBO and Japan Water Agency (JWA) - technic

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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