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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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The TA showed the importance of formulating an outcome that is the direct and immediate result of the project outputs. Government acceptance at a fairly distant date of the project’s policy recommendations as an indicator of outcome achievement was over ambitious, and the outcome itself of actual improvement of the public sector compensation system was dependent on many (often political) factors far beyond the control of an ADB TA.

Project Number: 48459-001
Project Name: Reforms in the Public Sector Compensation System
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Road safety requires a multi-disciplinary approach so actions on road safety needs to be taken at country level considering different approaches. Accordingly, the follow up TA (TA 9754: Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation: Knowledge Sharing and Services in Transport and Transport Facilitation Phase 2) includes more national capacity development events to support DMCs was established and became an integral block of this program.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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The training focusing on road safety engineering was aligned to ADB’s operations which led integration of road safety evaluation tools into CAREC road projects and consideration of road safety in the projects. The workshops featured practical trainings in blackspot investigation and road safety audit which was designed to assist road agencies in CAREC countries in providing safer roads.

Project Number: 48033-001
Project Name: Enhancing Road Safety for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries
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Closer coordination with PSOD at project preparation may have minimized unexpected developments in the preparation of the ensuing loan.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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The most critical aspect of the TA design was the development of a business plan and cash flow model. These addressed the concept clearance and initial due diligence processes of potential lenders.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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After the inception mission, the TOR had to be revised to strengthen the assessment of current port operation and propose possible implementation of existing terminals. In future, similar TAs for master planning of the port sector should be designed to cover such diagnosis from the beginning.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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There is a strong need to support executing agencies throughout project design and implementation to deliver gender analysis and mainstreaming. Gender-sensitive indicators and gender_x005F_x0002_related risks must be included in project frameworks.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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The new TA classification (knowledge and support TA and transaction TA) has removed the prescriptive nature of the previous TA types (such as capacity development TA and project preparatory TA). Increased flexibility in TA classification led to increased relevance during TA implementation.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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The TA’s efforts to develop a subnational expenditure framework for SLHCP implementation were hampered by challenges in obtaining robust historical health sector expenditure data for provincial levels. Future efforts to generate financial data from local governments require engagement not only with MOH, but also the Ministry of Finance.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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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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After direct requests from DMCs to ADB to assist them with climate finance access, the TA was responsive to the evolving needs of DMCs related to the financing of their climate commitments under the UNFCCC which were not necessarily (yet) included in their country partnership strategy.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Increased readiness for finance access differs from actual capacity to access finance and is highly context-specific to the type of project for which finance is required, the sources of finance being tapped, and individual DMC priorities and circumstances.

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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