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Lesson
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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Engaging an international firm with extensive experience proved to be the best option for this TA which focused on a complex and highly specialized topic. Nevertheless,there will always be an indispensable need for national perspectives and experiences, best provided by national consultants, to inform and be considered in TA analyses and recommendations. Future TA could benefit from increased engagement with local experts, either as individual consultants or as subcontracted members of international consulting firms or TA implementation teams.

Project Number: 53198-001
Project Name: Developing a Disaster Risk Transfer Facility in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Region
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The knowledge team (formerly Knowledge Advisory Services Center) from the former Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department administered the TA and supervised consultants until the TA was transferred to the Partner Funds Division. Managing consultants through external resources should be based on a clear understanding of ADB procedures and guidelines and should be adopted only if necessary.

Project Number: 52299-001
Project Name: Demonstrating Future Thinking and Foresight in Developing Member Countries
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Using individual consultants and resource persons provides flexibility in contract implementation. A summary recording of pertinent contract data must be kept updated to support efficient consultant management.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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Overly ambitious performance indicators can undermine some of the program’s achievements, particularly when reforms are undertaken during a crisis. In this program, The higher-level objective of a more inclusive, sustainable, and dynamic knowledge-based economy did not relate closely to the policy actions in the program—apart from the introduction of technical and vocational education and training.

Project Number: 52030-001
Project Name: Strengthening Macroeconomic Resilience Program
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The TCR lesson is useful. Capacity development activities should look to identify opportunities to partner with other donors. This TA partnership with FAO (handbook and MOOC implementation) generated greater and more cost-effective results than would otherwise have been possible.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Procurement, governance, and implementation is a relatively significant issue in Bangladesh, which is of concern to other multilateral and bilateral donors as well. Exploring co_x005F_x0002_financing and co-sharing opportunities could offer a possibility to work with other donors so that capacity building can be done at the scale and go deeper into systemic issues in the given sectors.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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Agreed. A useful lesson is the importance of partnering with other knowledge institutions to tap expertise and efficiently use financial resources.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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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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Strong in-country partnerships provide opportunities for leveraged action. In this TA, ADB was an active partner within the 6-Banks group and together they undertook joint policy dialogue with government and shared best international practices, likely having an impact greater than ADB acting alone.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Application of the One ADB approach from concept stage throughout implementation can enhance the value of a TA project through complementary competencies and perspectives (as was the case in this TA through the PRC resident mission, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department).

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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Collaboration with other expert groups on tax policy and administration to attain a similar objective could be an effective way to ensure wider knowledge sharing at more efficient cost through the pooling of resources

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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Continue the partnership with other international agencies like FAO so as not to duplicate work being done in the pilot DMCs. Sharing of resources with other agencies would also lead to an expansion of benefits to more DMCs, as witnessed within this TA.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Partnership with institutions, like the International Monetary Fund and those from developed counterparts like the Bank of Italy, has enabled us to work together and tap relevant expertise.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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The TA was solely funded by ADB, where the government provided [an] in-kind contribution. Cofinancing opportunities could have been explored with a condition that ADB intended outcomes will prevail.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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