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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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Technical assistance (TA) is important to ensure timely identification and support to critical reforms at challenging times. TA support contributed to the program being implemented within the original timeline. Transaction TA allowed for the development of additional activities that formed the post-program partnership framework (P3F). The practice of including P3F actions in the design of the programmatic policy-based lending should be continued, as it shapes up next-level dialogue with the government. It also helps ADB and the government to maintain a longer-term prospective.

Project Number: 51066-001, 51066-003
Project Name: Finance Sector and Fiscal Management Improvement Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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TA is a useful tool for developing context-specific and country-led reform priorities, which can be used as a starting point for building long-term government commitment to thoroughgoing reforms.

Project Number: 53105-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity
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Lack of adjustments in the design and monitoring framework (DMF), despite changes in TA priority and activities, could cause changes in counterparty priorities, expectations, and levels of commitment to a tax reform project. This TA's priority and activities were adjusted in response to the changed needs and business circumstances of the State Tax Service and the Ministry of Finance. However, no corresponding changes were made to the DMF, prompting changes to counterparty attitude and response to the tax reform project.

Project Number: 53105-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity
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Aligning TA knowledge products and services to government report formats and management notes facilitates their use by government agencies and other stakeholders. Derivative products, such as shorter policy briefs and policy discussions, will increase the uptake of the knowledge and recommendations generated by the TA.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Pooling together experts from the requesting government and counterpart experts from ADB in designing a TA project is critical to ensure the TA delivers planned results on time and in accordance with client’s needs and specifications. Despite that it was small-scale, the TA's design was appropriate to the pace of reforms in Uzbekistan and flexible enough to mobilize several experts and deliver the required knowledge products.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Close collaboration among ADB’s regional departments that support subregional programs and broad participation these subregional programs and their member countries, (i.e. the Central Asia Regional Economic Corridor, the Greater Mekong Subregion program, and the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation program), and development partners are critical in successfully implementing ECD-focused TA. These have helped improve the content and focus of the ECD guidance note produced by the TA.helped improve the ECD guidance note.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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Early engagement with DMCs in knowledge-sharing activities is advisable for TA with comprehensive and complex topics. For this TA, it could have facilitated in-depth discussion and debate among DMCs and development partners on the new concept of ECD, lessons learned from ECD initiatives, and ECD pipeline development.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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Developing a manual on public investment projects’ feasibility study in local language, a TA output with immense value to Uzbekistan, may be replicated in other countries.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Labor market activation programs, while effective in addressing specific constraints, are not a substitute for sound education policy, quality primary and secondary education, and tertiary education that is both relevant and effective. It is much more difficult to develop, standardize, launch, and institutionalize labor market activation programs as compared to improving the existing education system which already has a nationwide capacity and reach.

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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Coordinated use of TA is essential to support policy based lending, as this modality on its own is not well positioned to develop or deploy needed capacity. The TA grants funded by the Government of Canada provided the hands-on support necessary to develop policy and operating systems, which was followed by the program to provide the leverage to support the actual rollout of the JobStart Philippines Program (JSP).

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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Depending on the public employment service office , it can take a long time to refer the beneficiaries to employers and during this idle time, some lose interest or can no longer be reached. Minimizing this gap between program completion and placement is important to reduce transition losses.

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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Programmatic approaches are an appropriate and effective means to address technically challenging development problems that require long gestation periods. In this case, the government piloted and launched a highly effective program to improve the prospects of young and disadvantaged job seekers, and strengthened several existing labor market activation programs as part of a broader education reform agenda. This process covered more than 6 years and the large technical assistance (TA) grants the program attracted were instrumental to its success.

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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ADB has become more proactive in handling crises and providing support to its developing member countries (DMCs) by delivering emergency assistance. The process has been defined further after the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing DMC governments to access and implement emergency programs smoothly and ADB to provide resources more effectively and efficiently.

Project Number: 56147-001
Project Name: Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical Expenditures Program
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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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