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It is recommended that future TAs in the finance sector focus on specific subsectors or specific themes. This focused approach will enable comprehensive diagnostic assessment as well as adequate resources to address the biggest constraints in the sector or area. This approach will also benefit the government as they can design and implement sequenced reforms in a sector. Focus could also be on cross-cutting themes like financial inclusion.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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ADB may continue to engage and work closely with IMED and other agencies to continue and replicate or scale-up the capacity-enhancement activities.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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Nepal's shift to federalism has devolved much of the agriculture sector work to subnational governments. The newly established provincial and local governments require extensive capacity building to deliver agriculture research and extension services. The planned ADB investment project for 2021 delivery will incorporate investments in research and development and a pluralistic extension system, focusing on hill horticulture development.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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The SASEC Transmission Master Plan is expected to be updated and expanded soon to include Myanmar, which exercise has been eased by the availability of requisite databases. The findings of the feasibility study on power trading companies in Bangladesh and Nepal would help similar studies on other countries.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Despite the PRC’s unique policy and institutional environment, the reports contain information that might be relevant to other ADB developing member countries

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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ADB should explore how to link up ACMF initiatives with other departments of ADB to scale up and so the substantial technical work with ACMF can be made operationally relevant. ACMF’s initiatives on green bonds and corporate governance can help ASEAN member countries develop their capital markets and improve corporate governance standards of PLCs. There is also potential replication to other regional groupings outside ASEAN including the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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The TA has strengthened the fiduciary oversight by the development partners in PEDP III. Similar TA can be replicated in the education sector projects in Bangladesh, such as Supporting Fourth Primary Education Development Program, Skills for Employment Investment Program, Secondary Education Sector Investment Program.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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The need for the establishment of a regional energy information system and database (with regional energy efficiency and conservation data, EE appliances, EE benchmarks, etc.) is considered essential in the context of a SASEC initiative that would provide baselines for determining the impacts of EE programs undertaken in the future.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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Potential scaling up of the TA may be achieved by linking with operational planning in the transport sector, particularly in upgrading road conditions in the countries to enable them to open new routes for transport liberalization.

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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A subsequent phase with an approved budget of $9.09 million was approved on 3 October 2019. An increase in TA amount and minor change in scope memo is being processed by the user unit to include a $2 million contribution from the United States. This will be the first contribution from the United States.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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Due to target achieved ahead of schedule under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, the government has set a new ambitious target of achieving 100 GW of solar power by 2022.

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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Increasing water productivity with the use of drone and satellite technology is relatively new in the region and together with water accountability can be widely introduced in the region where similar water management structures are still in place. The TA’s outputs should be introduced to other developing member countries for scaling up in the region for better water efficiency.

Project Number: 51364-001
Project Name: Establishment of Kazakstan Knowledge Center on Integrated Water Resources Management
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Strong support and active participation from SASEC member countries provided good motivating factors to replicate or scale up initiatives in cross-border power trading, such as the issuance of India’s new guidelines on cross-border electricity trade, and issuance of Nepal’s transmission master plan.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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Scaling up is likely to happen with the planned updating of the transmission master plan and extension of the same to include Myanmar, and the discussions taking place for SASEC countries to adopt a regional power trade framework agreement.

Project Number: 47107-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation CrossBorder Power Trade Development
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The institutional structures of both RTAD and DOH are still weak in addressing identified road safety and maintenance issues. It is recommended that RTAD should establish a road safety section to strengthen its leadership, and DOH should establish RAMS unit to act as [an] engine room to enhance the planning process. To attract interest of private contractors to participate in maintenance works, together with providing capacity building trainings for the contractors, MOC should advocate [for a] strategy of road maintenance based on appropriate investment plan.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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