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Lesson
Ensure that adequate reports and documentation in the TA repository are clearly linked to the Tax Reform Study of the TA and other deliverables that contribute to long-term impact and outcomes.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Reporting on the role of private sector engagement post-TA would have been a good recommendation for a potential follow-on TA and would help contribute to sustainability.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Ensure that all monitoring and reporting profiles for the project and adequate documentation are provided in a satisfactory manner for a follow up at a later stage. This includes a list of areas and topics for further studies and/or research.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Risk assessment in the area of capacity-building development needs to be done at appraisal to come up with adequate mitigation plan to ensure that targeted participants are reached.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Another element is the importance of establishing the influence of user involvement on the efficiency of the procurement process in the public sector to determine the effect of top management support on stakeholder participation early in the project cycle.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
The TA reflected the importance of sustaining the policy dialogue with key government officials and agency heads all along the TA cycle that helped build ownership and continuity in relevance and maintain its importance until completion. This was reflected in the TA outcome—the formulation of an operational guideline on engaging the private sector achieved in 2019

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Careful attention to conceptualization of knowledge products, and measures to ensure their quality and utilization are important elements of effectiveness in building institutional and regulatory reform in sectors that are being targeted for the first time. In this case, a series of small TAs, building upon each other to build the policy framework and advisory elements in a structured and sequential manner was appropriate.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
Staff turnover and swift handover are a critical element of timely project implementation.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
Report Date:
Lesson
Validity of design was built with the project team responding to the request of the PRC government and aligning the project inputs to their declared priorities of reforms in three areas, namely budget management, tax reforms, and intergovernmental fiscal transfers. The TA design and planning elements contributed in large measure to the project’s enhanced efficiency. Project ownership was ensured with the TA’s demand-driven design at commencement. However, this was only evident in knowledge production, but fell short in the area of capacity-building development.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Lesson
The TCR did not mention this dimension explicitly in the document. In-country ownership by government and/or private sector would be required to consolidate gains.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Replication: Within ADB, the SDCD cost center has been established to develop GCF project proposals. Scaling up: It would require additional project preparation facilities, trust fund resources, and climate TA projects alongside ADB projects. Skills within SDCD have been developed but continue to rely on TA consultant support for implementation. The TCR, thus, recommended for a way forward.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
External NDF cofinancing and GCF climate finance partnerships were referenced here, and lessons provided were very broad, and not supported by evidence in the TCR. Internal ADB partnerships were not mentioned in the TCR, which would be important for encouraging broader adoption and sustainability of respective DMCs’ TA efforts via the country dialogue processes.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
The TCR found that close interaction between DMC stakeholders and climate finance providers was essential to create buy-in from all parties. The TCR did not provide evidence or data to support the level of adoption or commitment to TA efforts, or other evidence of continuing action and sustainability after TA completion.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Based on the TCR narrative, the TA prepared some technical documents and accessed new mechanisms for climate finance. The approved GCF proposals were examples. While the TA made some efforts to increase awareness and disseminate knowledge via the in-country consultations, there was no clear evidence or assessment that the target audience was more aware of the technical materials presented, and had adopted the same, thereby, building institutional capacity. Adopting national or sectoral policies or legal standards, or any academic literature was not mentioned in the TCR.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
The TCR mentioned the usefulness of a flexible approach to drafting consultant’s terms of reference such that they are broad based—this is a generalizable lesson in managing staff and consultant resources, and useful in the context of limited availability of climate finance specialists.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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