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Lesson
The lesson from implementing the TA project on a two-part approach is not clear. The TCR could have explained this further.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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The TCR could have further discussed the benefits or disadvantages of having government agencies as local partners, such as the Policy Research Bureau of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, facilitate workshop organization and implementation.

Project Number: 53140-001
Project Name: Developing Accountability and Mechanism Framework for Financial Intermediaries
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The TA performance would have been more successful by ensuring closer coordination with the executing agency and other government counterparts on the implementation of TA activities as well as timely recording of implementation milestones.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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More support was required to individual WSCs and VWSA to better achieve the TA outputs but not through the originally planned support to MOC and MPI. As such, the DMF indicators should have been updated in a timely manner by ADB and the executing agency when TA changes were processed. This would have enabled the TA to correctly capture the benefits and assess whether the TA is meeting its objectives by working with selected WSCs, especially those participating in the Investment Program.

Project Number: 44002-022
Project Name: Improving Operational Performance of the Water Supply Sector
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Infrastructure development requires substantial preparedness and investment in both time and money. Particularly, a cross_x005F_x0002_border project would require more time and efforts than a national project for coordination among different jurisdictions, thus, planning and implementation arrangement would require flexibility. In addition, rapid advancement in technology would affect IT architecture design, thus, additional flexibility as well as wider involvement of various stakeholders would be desirable.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Analytical support for the preparation of sectoral roadmaps under RPJMN should commence 2 years before targeted completion date.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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The need to carefully screen support for feasibility study preparation by considering factors such as inclusion in the Blue Book and commitment letters from relevant SOEs or ministries.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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The need for adequate resourcing of the SIAP IMU to ensure effectiveness and sustainability in light of extensive reporting requirements imposed by the SIAP Steering Committee.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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ADB provides support for capital market integration through the ASEAN as well as the ASEAN+3 processes. The latter is supported by the staff in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD). While there was some coordination with ERCD staff in the implementation of this TA, more coordination is required to find synergies between the various regional finance sector TA projects. This will reduce overlaps and produce better outputs by leveraging on the strength and network of counterparts supported by different regional TA projects.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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The TA implementation experienced several changes. There had been 13 approvals for minor change in scope and implementation arrangement to engage new experts and/or revision of TOR. This could have been avoided by comprehensive need assessment of expertise and deliverables.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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The qualification criteria for key position (international EE specialist) required too many different expertise / experiences from one position without sufficient consideration on the pool of qualified consultants under such requirements. This may consequently result in delays in project implementation. More strategic planning including market analysis on pool of qualified consultants needs to be taken during preparation of TOR.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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The TA benefitted from a focused executing agency and TA consultant who were committed to project’s objectives. Its extensions allowed completion of some activities to achieve better results.

Project Number: 42173-014
Project Name: Strengthening Monitoring and Enforcement in the Meghna River for Dhaka's Sustainable Water Supply
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Given the multisectoral nature of TTF (i.e. it requires various areas of expertise such as transport, agriculture, trade and trade facilitation), the implementation arrangements of such TA require stronger coordination among and between sectors. Implementation requires coordination at national, subnational and subregional levels, with enhanced involvement of ADB resident missions as needed.

Project Number: 44174-022
Project Name: Support for Implementing the Action Plan for Transport and Trade Facilitation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Subprojects 1 and 2)
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The implementation of PMC-approved activities led to the production of 78 technical reports and publications. This was executed through the recruitment of 146 consultant contracts including 6 consulting firms, 132 individual consultants and 8 resource persons.

Project Number: 46500-001
Project Name: Establishment of the Pacific Regional Infrastructure Facility Coordination Office
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Identifying consultants with sufficient technical and country knowledge was important to deliver quality outputs. Also, appropriate consultant selection method reduced the cost and time for processing consulting services

Project Number: 41613-012
Project Name: Integrated Renewable Energy Development
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