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In capacity building components of a TA project, measuring the quality of training or learning acquired is important (not just the number of participants trained) and this should be reflected in the design of the indicator to better guide assessment of the effectiveness of capacity building activities.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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An updated DMF is necessary to capture a TA project’s full extent of impact by aligning indicator years with those of the TA.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Reframing this: the TA project could have conducted detailed consultations to identify lessons learned and areas of improvement for poorly performing executing agencies. Needs assessments would have identified a greater degree of targeting of TA interventions and defined the parameters for capacity building.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
There is a need for careful planning in the context of an exploratory TA, such as this one, to allow for timely delivery of outputs while ensuring process and cost efficiency

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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This validation adds the need to adopt a more realistic timeline where funding sources are uncertain or unknown.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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This section in the TCR presents several findings including that increased readiness for finance access is different from the actual capacity to access finance and is highly context-specific to the type of project for which finance is required, the sources of finance being tapped, and individual DMC priorities and circumstances—this is a generalizable lesson in planning and relates to having some degree of flexibility to adapt to the evolving context given that this is a new area of work for the ADB as well as the DMCs.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
Careful front-end analysis of existing regulatory and policy settings can improve TA design and impact. In this TA’s case, capacity development activities were selected as the main strategy for change. The TA missed an opportunity to incorporate other modalities, such as explicitly supporting policy change when it was already understood that the regulatory framework was an ongoing constraint to improved ODA management.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Lesson
Capacity training of individuals as a strategy for change needs to be carefully balanced against other modalities. In this TA’s case, capacity development activities would likely have short-term benefits for the individual participants, as well as for the projects in which those individuals work. However, the TA missed an opportunity to incorporate other project modalities, such as explicitly supporting policy change, when it was already understood that the regulatory framework was an ongoing constraint to improved ODA management.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Continuous monitoring of external environment provides an opportunity for adjustment of TA design. At time of seeking approval for increased time and budget for this TA, consideration could also have been given to requesting design adjustments. Recalibration of the training programs and knowledge products may have resulted in greater impact within evolving policy constraints.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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The TA could have a scope for detailed consultations with poorly performing executing agencies identified in project completion reports, and interventions could have been more targeted based on the needs assessment.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Lesson
Increased readiness for finance access differs from actual capacity to access finance and is highly context-specific to the type of project for which finance is required, the sources of finance being tapped, and individual DMC priorities and circumstances.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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In order to have greater flexibility to respond to emerging needs of DMCs contrary to usual practice, the TA did not specify upfront what target DMCs would be included. This allowed greater responsiveness once opportunities for mobilization of climate finance became clearer.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
The TA addressed the significant complexity and highly dynamic evolution of the external climate finance landscape and mechanisms such as the GCF, and the challenges and barriers faced by DMCs to identify and develop priority projects which deliver against national climate and development priorities as well as the investment criteria of external climate finance providers. Overall, there remains a strong rationale for ADB to step up innovative approaches in climate finance, and support to DMCs for accessing climate finance both from its own as well as external climate finance sources.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Lesson
After direct requests from DMCs to ADB to assist them with climate finance access, the TA was responsive to the evolving needs of DMCs related to the financing of their climate commitments under the UNFCCC which were not necessarily (yet) included in their country partnership strategy.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The TA outputs were partially met and the intended outcome was not achieved. This is because efforts to improve project readiness were constrained by the ODA regulatory framework. The Procurement Law inhibits procurement readiness because it requires “secured funding” before the procurement plan is approved, which is interpreted by executing/implementing agencies that ADB loans must be declared effective before they can launch ADB-financed procurement.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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