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Almost all the TA activities were implemented according to the arrangement specified in the TA report. However, no MOF officials could attend the training seminar organized by the SDCC as it was arranged during the Chinese Spring Festival. Instead, the TA team leader participated in the seminar and shared the training materials with the EA. Moreover, the final report dissemination press conference was cancelled as the EA considered the TA’s topic too sensitive.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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To realize synergies and avoid redundancies, the TA and contracted consulting firm coordinated with ongoing programs by other donors, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Global Environment Facility, the Czech Development Agency, and German development cooperation through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. Collaboration with other development partners contributed to the achievement of the TA outcome and outputs. Other partners also contributed to the development of FGR with policy and legal- administrative framework for FGR.

Project Number: 50012-001
Project Name: Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
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The TA implementation included a comprehensive and coordinated approach amongst the key stakeholders and decision makers in all participating countries.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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During TA implementation, synergies were created to align TA outputs with other ADB eco-compensation projects by leveraging knowledge sharing and [sharing] policy impacts. Learning from this lesson for future TA projects, it will [could] be important to make use of programmatic modalities (such as cluster TA or facility approaches) to better align subproject outputs, outcomes, and impacts.

Project Number: 48469-001
Project Name: Developing Gross Ecosystem Product Accounting for Eco-Compensation
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It is important to keep a good balance between the subprojects or activities that are innovative but riskier and those that have firm disbursement schedules, so that the risk of TA implementation failure would be minimized. Subprojects to work with cities or municipalities turned out to be unpredictable, driven significantly by the political economy situation of the counterpart and are likely to face delays.

Project Number: 48206-001
Project Name: Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Phase 2)
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Time taken to recruit consultants should be considered in the planning stage. The original implementation period of 8 months, inclusive of consultant selection process, was ambitious. The implementation period should be planned in consideration of a realistic consultants’ selection timeframe.

Project Number: 52320-001
Project Name: Preliminary Assessment for Dili Airport Runway Project Upgrading Project
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The implementation of the TA depends on many external parameters outside the control of the TA. The main mplementation challenges occurred after the Municipal government changed. It is advisable to elaborate further opportunities to meet the expectations of the main stakeholders involved.

Project Number: 42417-045
Project Name: Vertical Mobility and Safety Improvement
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The two-part approach of the TA project implementation was effective to flexibly accommodate changes in project environment and the government’s needs,and define the project scope for due diligence. Since CHP 5 construction was outside of direct control of the TA project, there were several occasions to change the technical specifications and subcomponent scope to accommodate the request from the CHP 5 concessionaire and the government.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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When implementing an innovative TA project, seeking the support of different ADB departments, each with its own strengths, can help improve quality.

Project Number: 50315-001
Project Name: Facilitating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Foreign Direct Investment Flows: An ASEAN+6 Case Study
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Two national CSOs were engaged as consulting firms throughout the TA project lifetime, showing potential capacity of national CSOs to implement the TA project.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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Output-based terms of reference with full technical proposals was used to engage a consulting firm of public communications. This called for more innovative methodology and approaches from interested organizations to deliver the outputs.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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With systematic capacity building of local CSOs, the TA project successfully engaged (through subcontracting) 13 CSOs of two focus aimags of Dornogobi and Selenge for conducting local level studies—this helps to sustain the TA project benefits at the grassroots level in the long run.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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Having local partners (e.g., in the PRC) facilitate workshop organization and implementation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The project benefitted from a focused and well performing executing agency (EA) that was committed to the project’s objectives. This was a key factor in facilitating strong delivery.

Project Number: 49299-001
Project Name: Strengthening Capacity for Environmental-Economic Accounting
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Questionnaires, focus group discussions, and interviews were jointly administered by the TA implementing agency which had undertaken a similar study in 2010 and the TA consultants, leading to a strong ownership of the survey findings by the TA implementing agency, and facilitating policy dialogue.

Project Number: 49279-001
Project Name: Creating Enabling Environment fopr Gradual Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Settlements Development in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
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