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Early understanding of JFPR guidelines and classification of eligible and non-eligible expenditures can help allocate these funds to critical TA activities and reduce cost overestimates.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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In addition to milestones deliverables in consultants’ terms of reference, it is essential to identify appropriate mechanisms to ensure critical review of such deliverables and provide comments and guidance through ADB in-house technical expertise or external industry expert as a peer reviewer.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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Flexibility in TA implementation demonstrates commitment toward meeting client needs. Extension of TA implementation for 23 months, alongside increased funds, allowed delivery of nearly 100% more training workshops and maintained an open structured forum for ongoing policy dialogue with government.

Project Number: 48183-001
Project Name: Improving Portfolio Performance and Aid Management
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Avoid planning important project events that coincide with major holidays in client countries.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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It is important to agree at an early stage (e.g., planning and inception stage)—and have ongoing coordination—with the executing agency on agreed program activities and schedule, including key events (e.g., critical seminars) and dissemination approaches (e.g., through websites, press conference).

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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Strong team leader and close client communication are both amenable to successful TA implementation.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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It is essential to keep close communication with the EA during the whole implementation period to fully understand their demands and concerns and involve them for the consultant recruitment so that they can work closely together along the process. Having the best fit consulting team leader who has rich network and resources is also a big plus to the successful implementation and delivery.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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Due to the nature of the TA project’s deliverables and increasing demands from operational departments, the TA project had to be made flexible. Hence, it was not limited to the narrowly pre-defined areas and maximized the use of TA project resource as a facility

Project Number: 48240-001
Project Name: Information and Communication Technology for Development Initiative Facility in Asia and the Pacific
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This could still be improved by providing actual experiences involving operational departments that contributed to the improvement of the TA’s implementation.

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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Appropriately phasing orprioritizing the training programs could have prevented unnecessary time overruns.

Project Number: 50060-001
Project Name: Strengthening Tax Policy and Administration Capacity to Mobilize Domestic Resources
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There is often a time lag between the design and implementation phases of a TA. Therefore, it is important for TAs to be implemented with adequate flexibility to address the needs of the executing and implementing agency, which may evolve during the implementation period. While it is desirable to consider the selection, method designed in the TA, minor changes in implementation arrangements should be allowed, particularly at the latter stages of TA implementation.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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At TA conceptualization, the government’s priority should be ensured to reduce the delay in approval process and commencement of activities including the adequate allocation of counterpart resources in time.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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ADB's flexibility in a minor change in scope of the TA at the request of the Government was useful to design a policy-based program in less than one year.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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While this validation agrees that CSO participation would enhance inclusiveness and sustainability of the TA project benefits, sustainability could be further enhanced if the gender focal points from the ministries and aimags itself conducted the studies and had actively delivered the TA project outputs, not just through consulting firms.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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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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