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Lesson
Agreed. Maintaining continuity in the course of TA implementation by utilizing the consultant team most familiar with the project can result in benefits from knowledge building. Furthermore, knowledge sharing initiatives provide a mechanism to facilitate information exchange that can result in successful project outcomes.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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Lesson
Properly designed TA DMFs enables the outcomes and outputs to be clearly attributed to the TA project initiatives. Generalized achievements, or achievements that could have resulted from initiatives or projects being implemented by other organizations concurrently, should be avoided. It is important to define baselines for indicators and factor in expected growth/development when defining indicator targets.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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A robust research and consultation conducted during the project planning and design stage ensure that the outcomes, outputs, and TA project activities being proposed are not already being conducted by other donors or even by ADB. Evaluation of initiatives developed for roll-out in other regions where they have proven success supports them being adopted into the new region considering its own characteristics.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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A carefully developed TOR for consultants during the project planning and design stage ensure that the contract is set up in a most efficient way.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The TA project’s consulting services included 12 person-months of international inputs and 59 person-months of national inputs. There are sufficient inputs of local experts to improve the localization aspects of the design, and improve communication in both Chinese and English. If local technical experts such as university professors proactively joined, the sustainability of ADB support is expected to increase as professors would support, use, and disseminate the final reports.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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Lesson
This validation agrees with the TCR self-assessment on the importance of localizing the studies and having TA project reports in Chinese to facilitate understanding and communication with local government and stakeholders.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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Lesson
The TA was designed to draw lessons from international case studies and relied heavily on international consultants. Although this has its merits, the importance of being able to localize these case studies to the context of the Urumqi Metropolitan Area, and to have the reports in Chinese was underestimated in the initial design. The inclusion of local technical experts such as university professors may have helped to improve the localization aspects of the design, and improved communication in both Chinese and English.

Project Number: 51028-001
Project Name: Comprehensive Hub-oriented Transportation Strategy for Urumqi Metropolitan Area
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Lesson
Utilization of the same consultant team in supporting processing of a number of maritime projects enabled an efficient means of transferring knowledge on common challenges, such as incorporation of best practices on climate change and disaster resilience into project design. The TA facilitated policy dialogue amongst the DMCs, leading to development of several projects that were incorporated in the respective country partnership strategies.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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