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The development of specialized expertise requires careful selection and the engagement of qualified consultants and proper management of expectations from all parties. Future thinking and foresight is a specialized expertise. It is crucial to identify and engage consultants with proven experience to ensure they can provide the necessary guidance and insights. It is also a new approach for ADB and thus, clear onboarding, communication, and setting expectations for both Staff and consultants who were critiical to the success of the TA.

Project Number: 52299-001
Project Name: Demonstrating Future Thinking and Foresight in Developing Member Countries
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Inappropriate stakeholder selection can create complications and challenges during implementation. The main issue during implementation is that the executing agency is not the owner of the toll road project, placing it in an unsuitable position to lead in identifying the sections for financing. Although revising the implementation arrangement by involving DGH as the implementing agency was a measure taken to address the issue, it turned out not to be sufficient.

Project Number: 54396-001
Project Name: Trans Sumatra Toll Road Risk Monitoring
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The identification of appropriate executing agency and implementing agency is essential for achieving the intended outcome and output targets. In this project, the Directorate General of Highways (DGH) should have been involved and appointed as the lead agency in identifying suitable sections for financing.

Project Number: 54396-001
Project Name: Trans Sumatra Toll Road Risk Monitoring
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Frequent changes of key counterparts can slow down complex studies that require access to confidential information and fluent communication.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Stringent due diligence based on guidelines on the selection of the implementing agency and/or borrower does not ensure successful project implementation. The investment program, given the available multitranche financing facility, could have opened opportunities for other potential qualified banks with stronger experience in solar rooftop onlending, instead of focusing on a single borrower.

Project Number: 49419-002
Project Name: Solar Rooftop Investment Program - Tranche 1
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EAs/IAs and supreme audit institutions (SAIs) have expressed a substantial demand for capacity development initiatives focused on financial reporting and auditing practices. Increased and more frequent collaborative engagement with SAIs and private auditing firms would facilitate the prioritization of limited TA resources, allowing them to be strategically allocated to address the most critical capacity gaps. EAs/IAs staff training need to continuously focus on timely financial reporting and audit and comprehensive coverage of all project expenditures until financial closing.

Project Number: 52113-001
Project Name: Strengthening Financial Management in Asia and the Pacific, Phase 2
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Inviting borrower representatives such as key personnel from the ministries of finance and government auditors to act as resource speakesr enrich training discussions and hence must be continued. Close coordination with borrowers on selecting the appropriate participants to the seminars should also continue to ensure effectiveness. Target satisfaction rate should be raised to 80% in line with ADB corporate-wide target satisfaction rate for knowledge products.

Project Number: 46534-004
Project Name: Disbursement Capacity Building for Developing Member Countries
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Professional accounting organizations are reliable partners in initiatives to enhance the financial management capacity of DMCs. This TA benefited from an extensive network of partners from the DMCs and various Professional Accounting Organizations. This collaboration facilitated the gathering of substantive inputs localizing best international practices in auditor quality assurance programs, thereby improving the quality of the TA deliverables.

Project Number: 52113-001
Project Name: Strengthening Financial Management in Asia and the Pacific, Phase 2
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Inappropriate implementation arrangements could lead to significant implementation challenges. Implementation by thromdes created ground-level coordination challenges among multiple institutions that could have been avoided by restructuring implementation arrangements

Project Number: 44240-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Project
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Stakeholder relationships need to build on established mandates and be insitutionalized to effectively contribute to and ensure project success. The project benefited from local project management offices (PMOs) building effective relationships with key stakeholders in the road safety ecosystem, including traffic police and education bureaus. Although successful, this approach relied on relationships among different agencies to implement a safe system approach without any mandate.

Project Number: 46042-002
Project Name: Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project
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Zero changes in project staff and implementation arrangement contribute significantly to smooth project implementation. The key staff of the project management office and implementing agencies remained unchanged throughout the project preparation and implementation periods. This, along with the absence of any scope changes, ensured smooth implementation of the project. The experience can be repeated in future projects through appropriate institutional measures and project implementation arrangements.

Project Number: 46079-002
Project Name: Guangdong Chaonan Water Resources Development and Protection Demonstration Project
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The choice of executing agency (EA) is critical to project success. The Minifstry of Finance, the project EA, provided strong leadership and was able to engage the private sector efficiently. Its broad, multisector overview of the economy helped ensure relevant outcomes from the project, and its central ministerial position facilitated effective coordination across multiple ministries.

Project Number: 42466-015
Project Name: Skills for Employment Investment Program - Tranche 1
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Using well-established and reputable industry associations as primary implementing partner for training rather than directly contracted training providers is a strategically sound decision for scaling up sector-specific, job-ready training. The industry associations already had a working knowledge of the skills gaps and needs in their respective industries, which reduced the time needed to develop programs and deliver industry-required skills courses. Job placement was also made easier thus facilitating the attainment of the performance indicators.

Project Number: 42466-015
Project Name: Skills for Employment Investment Program - Tranche 1
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An appropriate Implementation arrangement is key to delivering a successful project. The project could have had greater impact if it had the Nanning Education Bureau as implementing agency (IA). Project deliverables could have been more institutionalized and led to the deepening of the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) reform in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Nanning Development and Reform Commission played an overall coordination role but lacked direct supervision authority over the two TVET schools.

Project Number: 46047-002
Project Name: Guangxi Nanning Vocational Education Development Project
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Too many implementing agencies completing too many policy actions, make progam coordination very difficult.

Project Number: 53221-001, 53221-002, 53221-003
Project Name: Third Capital Market Development Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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