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The strong performance by the MOF’s PPP Center demonstrated substantial benefits when an active hands-on approach was adopted. Given the strong government interest and ownership in the TA, the PPP Center conducted its own market consultation, which showed potential for well-designed PPPs. Consultant roles were adjusted for further investigations. When market interest was low, the PPP Center also took the initiative to contact commercial banks, law firms, and institutes to discuss joining in the project activities.

Project Number: 48377-001
Project Name: Financing Public-Private Partnerships
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Conducting an exploratory TA like this one results in evolvement of the nature of work that requires continuous extension to the ongoing work. The cost savings from hiring the international consultants have allowed the TA to expand the work without having to request for an additional funding. In addition, engaging ADB staff directly in working on the research topics was a critical element to ensure that the knowledge and capacity grows within ADB as a knowledge bank.

Project Number: 47146-001
Project Name: Macroeconomic Modelling for Improved Economic Assessment
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Capacity development and training should be developed on a need[s] basis. [A] More structured and institutional approach in [to] capacity development, linking with the academia and training providers may be pursued. Training linked to career development/progression of the government staff [better] ensures the sustainability.

Project Number: 45376-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
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The trade facilitation component was relatively more challenging to implement mainly because it requires the government agencies to conduct additional data surveys over and above their regular workload. The recommendations tend to be related to institutional, policy and regulatory measures, which are traditionally more difficult to influence and change as compared to providing assistance in physical infrastructure.

Project Number: 46502-001
Project Name: Trade and Transport Facilitation in the Pacific
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The implementation arrangement underwent changes due to the dropping of the targeted component under an investment project, which could not be foreseen at the TA appraisal. This resulted in the change of the executing agency during implementation. The TA project activities was hampered as the output and outcome were tied up with another ongoing project that affected the delivery of output (ii)b. electrical connections to 500 HHs and billing by 200 women.

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 implementation plan was soundly prepared, and the activities coalesced well in generating the information sought and making it widely available to the proper stakeholders. This approach lends itself for replication in similar TA support: (i) detailed analyses of the situation in the country, (ii) a comparative international overview of public sector compensation schemes across a range of other nations, (iii) the preparation of a synthesizing knowledge product, and (iv) the use of workshops to disseminate the work.

Project Number: 48459-001
Project Name: Reforms in the Public Sector Compensation System
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During the TA’s implementation, which was to prepare an ensuing loan for PSOD, the resident mission should have obtained regular feedback from PSOD.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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The successful implementation of the TA may have been compromised by inadequacies in the preparation of the TA design, notably in the identification of required expertise and in the terms of reference for the consultants.

Project Number: 40552-012
Project Name: KazPost Financial Strengthening and Modernization
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The original TA implementation period was 32 months from May 2012 to December 2014. It was, however, estimated that consulting services would be required for the same duration. Considering the possible delay in government approval of TA effectiveness, as well as other unexpected delays during implementation, the implementation period should have been designed longer. In fact, political unrest in the country forced the consultant to demobilize key personnel from the site for a certain period.

Project Number: 45078-001
Project Name: Strategic Masterplan for Chittagong Port
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Mapping and analysis of the policy and institutional frameworks governing LHC management helped in addressing the key challenges to develop and implement a subnational expenditure framework for SLHCP.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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The TA highlighted the value of strong leadership by the implementing agency. The MOH Department of Planning and Finance was effective in coordinating inputs of development partners under a common analytical framework for the LHC reform agenda (the Master plan), thereby ensuring that investments of each development partner, including ADB, the World Bank, and World Health Organization, were complementary and without duplication.

Project Number: 50285-001
Project Name: Support to Strengthening Local Health Care Program
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Early engagement with potential external providers of climate finance can help to drive project selection and support project design in line with the investment criteria of these providers.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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Early engagement with ADB project teams during the project design stage allows for more effective framing of projects as climate-relevant, as well as the inclusion of climate-relevant project components, which facilitate the mobilization of climate finance.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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The TA highlighted the value of promoting knowledge exchange among DMCs on the issue of access to external climate finance, on which most DMCs only have limited direct experience.

Project Number: 47286-001
Project Name: Enhancing Readiness of ADB Developing Member Countries for Scaled Up Climate Finance
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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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