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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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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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It is very important to reach consensus on TA design and planning between ADB and the EA for the TA. Considering that the draft concept paper submitted by the EA was too broad and comprehensive to be undertaken, the resident mission suggested the TA should focus on one or two areas to be reformed urgently. After several rounds of discussion, consensus was reached on the TA design and planning.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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The TA project’s design was appropriate for achieving the intended outcome. National and international good practices and lessons on forest seed management were shared with relevant authorities.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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The TA supported CAREC countries’ scaling up the JCC by (i) analyzing lessons learned, (ii) intensifying JCC by moving toward the electronic exchange of harmonized cargo manifests and mutual recognition of inspection results, and (iii) expanding JCC to more BCPs in more member countries. Both PRC and MON Customs maintain the use of the UCM in the pilot BCPs, which improved the effectiveness and efficiency of both customs administrations.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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As outputs 1 and 2 targeted expressway development across the whole country and mainly focused on capacity building, they can be designed as part of knowledge and support technical assistance to better facilitate the nationwide initiatives and provide relatively long-term training support. For similar studies involving highly political decisions, necessary governance and institutional arrangements should be in place from the onset to improve the chance of sustaining TA outputs.

Project Number: 46374-001
Project Name: Southern Highways Investment Program
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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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The TA was particularly successful and was able to get full support and engagement from the local development reform commissions and agencies at the provincial level due to strong leadership and facilitation from NDRC’s Department of Western Region Development.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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The TA design that is fully aligned with the operational plan priorities and structure, as well as the thematic group workplan, has made the TA implementation and monitoring smooth, as this can be done in conjunction with the overall operational plan monitoring and reporting.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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ADB’s missions were effective in ensuring that the TA design/plan was in line with three governments’ needs, and also helped facilitate the three governments’ participation and ownership of the TA. During the TA project design and planning stage, ADB had two consultation and fact_x005F_x0002_finding missions in Bhutan and one consultation and fact-finding mission each in Afghanistan and Nepal.

Project Number: 46257-001
Project Name: Strengthening Integrated Water Resources Management in Mountainous River Basins
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The TA project design and its five outputs were an amalgam of diverse activities. Most of these outputs could easily have been managed under separate TAs. While all the outputs fell within the finance sector, they were combined into one TA project in response to directions from ADB Management and the President that the number of individual TA projects be reduced. While the TA was managed properly overall, the many different counterparts and objectives involved made the oversight process challenging and complex.

Project Number: 50017-001
Project Name: Supporting Financial Sector Development and Stability
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The TA design was appropriate in terms of the TA outcome and outputs. The TA implementation period was extended by 1-year with a recognition that knowledge-sharing at the local level requires more time.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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The TA design was appropriate in terms of the TA outcome and outputs. The TA implementation period was extended by 1-year with a recognition that knowledge-sharing at the local level requires more time.

Project Number: 50006-001
Project Name: Poverty Reduction in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
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The ambitious outcome of the TA would have been achieved if it has been followed by an ensuing investment project as planned. Huge investment gap remains. ADB stands ready to support the government in finding an alternative solution, whatever financing modality will eventually be preferred by the Borrower.

Project Number: 42417-045
Project Name: Vertical Mobility and Safety Improvement
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Frequent change in the government remains a major risk to build up the energy sector pipeline in Mongolia. It was also a cause of delayed investment in baseload generation capacity development for power and heat supply in Ulaanbaatar and of much delayed response to improve air quality in the city. All requested projects in Mongolia would need to carefully factor in changes in government that directly impacts project processing especially for a project involving multiple domestic stakeholders and requiring lengthy preparation and processing time.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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