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The importance of focused group discussions with the implementing agencies cannot be overemphasized. Having an open communication at the onset would ensure an efficient planning of activities, budget, and timelines. With this, the IAs were able to have realistic targets and eventually accomplished the needed tasks.

Project Number: 49342-001
Project Name: Implementing ICT Tools to Improve Data Collection and Management of National Surveys in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals
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TA design gave the IAs primary responsibility for executing and monitoring the TA activities. This helped foster strong government ownership and buy-in.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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The TA design and its outputs were an amalgam of diverse activities. Most of these outputs could have been managed under separate TA projects.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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Outputs could have been better streamlined as some components were overlapping. For example, outputs 1, 2, and 4 were discussing international practices and the three PPP type of funds, i.e., VGFs, lending facilities, and guarantee funds, and its applicability to PRC conditions. It is unclear whether different types were proposed for use by different levels of government. The original aim was to promote standardized application of a PPP model.

Project Number: 48377-001
Project Name: Financing Public-Private Partnerships
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The TA could have a scope for detailed consultations with poorly performing executing agencies identified in project completion reports, and interventions could have been more targeted based on the needs assessment.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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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 project was consistent with ADB’s country operations business plan (2015–2017) and government’s Sixth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015). However, on the design part, the TA project could have assessed the feasibility of the scope before their inclusion in the TA output, such as the possibility of the solar irrigation pumps. Such due diligence could have avoided changes in the output 1 activities during the implementation period. Output 5: inventory of mini-grid sites could have been linked to the ensuing project. The TA lacked the social mobilization, training and start up support.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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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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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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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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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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