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Some of the TA activities helped to increase close collaboration with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, which was always included in the dissemination and capacity development programs.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Partnership with United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) helped extensively to supplement the efforts in related activities under RETA 8619 and expand the capacity development on Bangladesh and Nepal. The cluster TA funded travel-related expenses of participants from Bangladesh and Nepal on the SASEC Cross-border Power Trade Development Study Tour held in Nord Pool Spot, Oslo, Norway, while RETA 8619 funded those of participants from other SASEC member countries.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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This describes outputs and does not constitute a lesson. During the finalization of this validation, SARC provided another lesson: The availability of a comprehensive database with regional information aids in the scaling up of cross-border sector plans and/or initiatives.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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The SASEC Transmission Master Plan is expected to be updated and expanded soon to include Myanmar, which exercise has been eased by the availability of requisite databases. The findings of the feasibility study on power trading companies in Bangladesh and Nepal would help similar studies on other countries.

Project Number: 45396-001
Project Name: South Asia Economic Integration Partnership
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Despite the PRC’s unique policy and institutional environment, the reports contain information that might be relevant to other ADB developing member countries

Project Number: 48460-001
Project Name: Promoting the Decisive Role of Market in Resource Allocation
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It would be useful if the TCR had outlined the opportunities for scaling up that could be included as part of the TA project follow-up actions and/or could be considered by similar TA projects. A possibility would be improving the database to include both baseline and target, and an alert mechanism to provide information if achievement of targets appears to be lagging against planned delivery. In this way, catch-up plans may be undertaken by relevant offices.

Project Number: 49299-001
Project Name: Strengthening Capacity for Environmental-Economic Accounting
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The TA was financed by Republic of Korea e_x005F_x0002_Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (EAKPF), and the budget was executed prudently and transparently as planned through close coordination with EAKPF Fund Team. Thanks to EAKPF’s funding, the TA could closely collaborate with the Government of the Republic of Korea, hire an expert from Korean financial market as a consultant, and expand its network to Korean markets, all of which contributed to effectually generating the outputs and the outcome of the TA.

Project Number: 50055-001
Project Name: Creating a Regional Settlement Intermediary in ASEAN+3: Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum
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Lesson
The importance of close coordination with infrastructure-related programs funded by the Government of Australia and other development partners in Indonesia to maximize synergies as advised.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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Strong tripartite partnership among the government, Government of Australia, and ADB made SIAP a success and led to ADB and the Government of Australia signing a Cofinancing Agreement for A$40 million to support Phase 2 of SIAP in February 2019.

Project Number: 46380-001
Project Name: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program
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ADB should explore how to link up ACMF initiatives with other departments of ADB to scale up and so the substantial technical work with ACMF can be made operationally relevant. ACMF’s initiatives on green bonds and corporate governance can help ASEAN member countries develop their capital markets and improve corporate governance standards of PLCs. There is also potential replication to other regional groupings outside ASEAN including the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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The Japan Ministry of Finance and Japan International Cooperation Agency have been strong supporters of ACMF. ADB staff should explore opportunities to collaborate with these stakeholders in the implementation of future TA projects to provide visibility for their support and leverage on their role within the government and the private sector in Japan. The green bond study visit to Tokyo supported under this TA was a good start.The Investment Climate Facilitation Fund is a good source of TA funding forregional cooperation and integration.

Project Number: 48143-001
Project Name: Enhancing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Capital Market Integration
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The TA had been effective in drawing cofinancing. Activities from the cofinancing were clearly defined and complementary to ADB financed activities. Co-financing could have been envisaged at design stage instead of additional financing during implementation.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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The TA has strengthened the fiduciary oversight by the development partners in PEDP III. Similar TA can be replicated in the education sector projects in Bangladesh, such as Supporting Fourth Primary Education Development Program, Skills for Employment Investment Program, Secondary Education Sector Investment Program.

Project Number: 45317-001
Project Name: Support for the Third Primary Education Development Project
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The need for the establishment of a regional energy information system and database (with regional energy efficiency and conservation data, EE appliances, EE benchmarks, etc.) is considered essential in the context of a SASEC initiative that would provide baselines for determining the impacts of EE programs undertaken in the future.

Project Number: 45419-001
Project Name: SASEC Subregional Energy Efficiency Initiative
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There was no co-financing. Development partners (DPs), such as, AFD, EIB, and KfW of Loan 3051/8292-BAN were greatly benefited by the TA studies. The review missions of KfW and AFD for financing the water supply project met regularly with ADB to get updates on the TA. A letter forwarded to the government by the DPs helped in preparation of Meghna River Master Plan.

Project Number: 42173-014
Project Name: Strengthening Monitoring and Enforcement in the Meghna River for Dhaka's Sustainable Water Supply
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