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Accessibility of healthcare data in Azerbaijan needs to be improved. Reports from the Ministry of Health Care are not publicly available on its website. In addition, the State Agency for Mandatory Health Insurance considers healthcare information to be highly sensitive. Accordingly, this information is not contained on its website. Information related to daily coronavirus infections and vaccinations was released publicly. It would be useful for the agency to disseminate gender, age, and region-disaggregated information to the public.

Project Number: 55073-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Sex-disaggregated data need to be accurate and usable for in-depth analyses to support policy development and program planning and implementation. The government has increased its focus on gender equality and has made significant progress on gender data tracking and transparency. Although there are a few publicly available national resources, they lack qualitative information.

Project Number: 55073-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Insufficient up-to-date macroeconomic data on government websites, which could hinder timely and effective planning especially during crisis periods, needs to be rectified. The State Statistical Committee (SSC) has numerous macroeconomic indicators on its website. However, in most cases, very recent data are missing. International organizations such as ADB, the IMF and the World Bank release forecasts of macroeconomic indicators for upcoming years, and SSC should consider following the same approach.

Project Number: 55073-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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This lesson learned is too broad to be able to provide a lesson learned to other projects. A more specific lesson based on this TA’s implementing experience could be that ensuring a strong partnership and coordinating the implementation of activities with executing and implementing agencies, as well as donor partners, are critical for a successful TA, especially when there is a high staff turnover in the implementing agencies.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Although interesting, this lesson learned does not provide a learning opportunity for future TAs. A more specific lesson could be that outputs delivered can provide a base for future interventions to build on, such as this TA’s trade portal, which is a tool to support investors and exporters.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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This is a useful lesson learned. Ensuring a clear implementation structure and limiting the number of implementing agencies help avoid implementation delays and changes to outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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This lesson learned is too broad to be able to provide guidance for other projects. A more specific lessoncould be that a strong support from the implementing agency is critical for increased stakeholder commitment, which contributes to the achievement of the TA’s outputs.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Lesson
This is more of a description of achievements than a lesson learned. A more specific lesson could be that outputs delivered for one sector can also be applied to other sectors, thus providing lessons learned among different sectors and resulting in cost savings.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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This is a useful lesson learned. The lesson could have benefitted from specifying which outputs should have been grouped together under separate TA projects.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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This is more of a description of outputs/knowledge products produced than a lesson learned. A more specific lesson could be that ensuring that the knowledge products delivered under a TA are widely disseminated to allow for a learning experience is important. For example, this TA conducted assessments and ensured knowledge sharing by organizing an international forum and workshops.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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The TA design and its outputs were an amalgam of diverse activities. Most of these outputs could have been managed under separate TA projects.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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The TA was successful in delivering knowledge products. One international forum and three workshops were organized to present three sector assessments and wine sector case study. The TA delivered a comprehensive innovation strategy, covering innovation, science and technology with clear roadmap and action plan. The TA also helped conduct an impact assessment, prepare and publish a research paper. The TA also funded a study tour for EIAA staff.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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The selection and use of individual consultants with specific skills allowed to timely achieve some of the planned outputs. The previously developed Terms of References (TORs) for the industrial economist and innovation expert were, however, challenging. As it was evident during the implementation, the requirements for industrial economist included a broad range of skills and requirements in specific sectors, which could not have been achieved without recruitment of resource persons with narrow skills.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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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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The TA outputs have provided a base on which future interventions could be tailored. This includes the government support for implementation of innovation strategy roadmap, resources allocated for new export insurance products, as well as the MOE commitment to maintain and further develop the trade portal as a tool to support investors and exporters.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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