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The IAs were fully consulted during the inception, interim, and final meetings. The draft policy recommendations were extensively discussed among the stakeholders at the interim and final workshops for each of the three components. Being given ample time (1 month) to review the final reports prior to the final workshop, they were able to provide useful and thought-provoking comments to improve the technical reports and add value to the proposed recommendations.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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The project approach in recruiting three sets of consulting teams comprising international and national consultants, each led by a subsector specific expert/team leader, was suitable given that the three project components addressed separate issues. Each had a different and appropriate IA within MOF: the Policy and Fiscal Affairs Department for Component 1, the Tax Policy Department for Component 2, and the Social Security Department for Component 3.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Having the IAs administer the workshops, seminars, and an international study tour not only strengthened project ownership, but also minimized the administrative and logistical responsibility of ADB. Contrary to the original plan of preparing an advance payment facility to implement the activities, ADB made direct payments to suppliers and contractors and reimbursed justifiable, project-related costs incurred by the government.

Project Number: 48006-001
Project Name: Improving Efficiency in Public Service Procurement, Delivery, and Financing
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Too many implementing agencies and different counterparts for different components have contributed to the delays and changes. Diversity and number of implementing and counterpart agencies should be taken into account when designing new TA projects and should be limited to up to two.

Project Number: 48040-001
Project Name: Export- and Innovation-Led Industrial Development
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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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