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Lesson
Succinct discussions on the content of training courses and workshop, including participants’ uptake, help facilitate the assessment of capacity-building initiatives.

Project Number: 48432-001
Project Name: Enabling Poor Women's Benefits from Enhanced Access to Energy in Hatiya Island
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Besides ADB and the consultant/contractor, the only TA stakeholders were the Ministry of Energy and KEGOC.

Project Number: 50318-001
Project Name: Fostering the Development of Renewable Energy
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TA projects should specify what change is expected from the ‘active participation’ of stakeholders in the activities. The TCR could have commented on the extent to which this ‘active participation’ helped improve the quality of results and buy-in or how the TA managed to secure engagement of relevant stakeholders.

Project Number: 47082-001
Project Name: Coordinated Border Management for Results in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
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Lesson
For policy and advisory TAs targeting industry-wide upgrading and transformation, the lack of activities enabling active stakeholder participation such as workshops, seminars, and training activities, coupled with the lack of ownership and accountability of stakeholders, will significantly reduce the accessibility and transferability of the knowledge generated by the TAs that are originally expected to benefit the industry in a sustained manner.

Project Number: 48005-001
Project Name: Improving Energy Efficiency, Emission Control, and Compliance Management of the Manufacturing Industr
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To ensure effective continuity in an executing agency, backup staffing and/or arrangements should be planned in case of key staff changes.

Project Number: 51021-001
Project Name: Reforming the System of Personal Income Tax and Social Security Contributions
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Useful to conduct a stakeholder analysis and ensure that all key groups are included. It would have also been useful to add more details with regard to the actual participation of the enterprises during TA implementation.

Project Number: 50034-001
Project Name: Vocational Education-Enterprise Collaboration for Student Employment-Based Poverty Reduction in Gansu
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Based on the additional explanation on the political sensitivity surrounding policy debates on urban–rural migration or hukou system, this TA’s experience on how ADB can support in these issues deserves good attention and follow-up.

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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This is a repetition of the previous lesson. It could have been improved by highlighting the importance of stakeholders’ role in regional trade integration, supported by actual experiences.

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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Implementation of TA activities in the finance sector should actively engage the private sector so that the policies developed by MOF and OJK are relevant and effective. A good example is the diagnosis of tax neutrality for the Islamic capital market, which included significant consultation with issuers, legal and tax experts, banks and capital market intermediaries. This feature is a good practice and should be replicated in other TAs.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Regulatory Framework of Financial Sector Development and Oversight
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It is advisable to secure and document the commitment of the government on adopting and/or incorporating the lessons and recommendations from the TA in similar initiatives or interventions in the future, including the participation of relevant stakeholders for enhanced sustainability.

Project Number: 48139-001
Project Name: Enhancing the Institutional Capacity of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division
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The TA supported a wide range of stakeholder consultations with the private sector, subject matter experts, and the Government on key policy bottlenecks in the agriculture sector in Nepal. These interactions led to the identification of critical reforms towards strengthening the Government's capacity for ensuring the food safety, a serious public health concern in Nepal.

Project Number: 48218-007
Project Name: Support for Value Chain Development under the Nepal Agriculture Development Strategy
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Bringing together the relevant government stakeholders such as the ministries-in-charge of energy, the power utilities and transmission utilities, and the regulatory agencies in the intergovernmental meetings helped to further the discussions more effectively at both policy and technical levels.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Agree with the importance of engaging local stakeholders to ensure consideration of local context and to promote inclusiveness and ownership toward enhancing sustainability.

Project Number: 50093-001
Project Name: Gender-Responsive Sector and Local Development Policies and Actions
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The TCR could have cited a specific instance that benefited the presence of a champion in managing cross-departmental transaction. It could have also provided additional information on the collaboration arrangements across departments.

Project Number: 46343-002
Project Name: Preparing the Energy Efficiency and Urban Environment Improvement Project
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Lesson
Stakeholder participation and consultation are both crucial for the relevance of project design.

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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