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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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The TA had some design shortcomings related to insufficient information availability. During project preparation, the extent of the work and the inputs and resource requirements of each participant should have been clearly communicated.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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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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Training indicators are more accurate and representative if they are based on demonstrated proficiency, and not just participation, since mere attendance does not prove capacity development.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Inaccurate estimations: KEGOC underestimated the data required, and DIgSILENT overestimated availability of data.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Gender targets for training are based on actual data on the organization’s employee composition and should aim to increase participation of underrepresented groups. To increase the value of the training activities, gender targets can be designed such that the (i) organization’s current employee composition and (ii) steps to increase the exposure, awareness, and participation of underrepresented groups are taken into account, while ensuring the delivery of the training program to the appropriate people who are currently performing the critical tasks.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Holding organized workshops with key staff (technical and managerial staff and other staff that would interact with the system) to identify the key features required for a successful transition to a new transmission planning system (or other major software or system change) and review and evaluate the different alternatives will help create buy-in and also result in a quality decision, factoring in the contributions of different team members. The software system chosen through this kind of process will be respected and will have a high likelihood of successful implementation and uptake.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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Consultants’ terms of reference should be based on milestone deliverables (final reports, surveys, workshops/training events, and others) submitted officially to ADB and executing agency/implementing agency, and not time-based contracts. To ensure the quality of milestone deliverables, it is useful to have an effective mechanism established as part of the TA design to ensure a critical review process of the deliverables and require the consultants to rework unsatisfactory deliverables at no or limited additional costs.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Depending upon the nature of survey questions, appropriate sampling methods shall be applied to ensure reasonable representativeness of samples to be surveyed.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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For TAs involving a survey, the survey should be prepared in collaboration with all stakeholders, including ADB, the executing agency, and the implementing agency. Furthermore, before implementing the survey at full-scale, it is necessary to pilot-test the questionnaire and make necessary adjustments based on responses, so as to ensure the robustness of survey design and the usefulness of its implementation results.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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The text could instead have reflected on the approach to working with regional countries to scale up JCCs, particularly on how contextual factors (such as the key risks and assumptions outlined in the DMF) helped the team to design, sequence and prioritize their work program to achieve results

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Existing institutional structure, administrative procedure, work process and practices of the targeted government agencies present both opportunities and challenges to a CDTA project and therefore shall be adequately understood, assessed, and factored in when designing TA project activities and outputs.

Project Number: 46370-002
Project Name: Improving Road Network Management and Safety
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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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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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