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High-level participation among stakeholders in the design, implementation, and establishment of community mechanisms contribute substantially to project success. Buy-in of stakeholders and active participation in the processes from design to implementation are critical, specifically when the project involves new approaches and pilot programs

Project Number: 48216-001
Project Name: Integrated Livelihoods Improvement and Sustainable Tourism in Khuvsgul Lake National Park Project
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Development partners should both support and take advantage of opportunities that arise when governments are committed to reform, which should also be recognized in their country programming. the government that came to office in 2018 was strongly reform-minded. Even though Armenia suffered two exogenous shocks in the form of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and conflict with a neighboring country, reform commitment did not waver. This contributed strongly to the ultimate outcome of this program.

Project Number: 51060-002, 51060-003
Project Name: Public Efficiency and Financial Markets Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Project partnership agreements with government on human resources and funding are critical to effective implementation and sustainability. While initially the project national project implementation unit had issues on staffing, procurement, and implementation, these were resolved with incremental additional staffing, recruitment of a small core team of individual consultants, and restructuring to a subproject management unit. The non-recruitment of a social development specialist; to be funded by the government, affected the Gender action plan monitoring and planned survey update.

Project Number: 44130-022
Project Name: District Capitals Water Supply Project
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Dependence on consulting services hired under a separate ongoing ADB-funded project can cause coordination problems and unnecessary delays. For instance, the submission of this project’s 2018 semiannual environment monitoring reports was delayed because of lack of dedicated attention. Better management of the consultants by the project management unit would have helped achieve the intended efficiency.

Project Number: 44240-014
Project Name: Thimphu Road Improvement Project
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Continuity of services of experienced project staff is essential. The project director and account officer positions at the project coordination office experienced high turnover, which affected overall performance, including of project financial management, as evidenced by the outstanding recurring audit issues and multiple delayed submissions.

Project Number: 36188-023
Project Name: Secondary Towns Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Project
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Technical assistance (TA) support with clearly defined deliverables that are incorporated in the program design and implementation can help strengthen institutional capacity and the government’s commitment to reforms.

Project Number: 50254-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Customs Reform and Modernization for Trade Facilitation Program
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TA has a unique value in engaging stakeholders in a comprehensive analysis of sector problems and formulating a realistic reform agenda, as well as in sustaining the reform process even after program completion.

Project Number: 51129-002
Project Name: Human Development Enhancement Program
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Technical assistance (TA) supported by a policy-based grant may be able to support small-scale reform interventions more efficiently.

Project Number: 43490-013
Project Name: Capital Market and Infrastructure Capacity Support Project
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ADB and government agencies should collaborate more closely to identify and align technical assistance (TA) support to client and project needs.

Project Number: 35354-013
Project Name: Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway Development Project
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Supplementing programmatic assistance with sufficient, targeted technical assistance (TA) is effective in achieving reforms

Project Number: 47137-003, 47137-006
Project Name: Health Sector Governance Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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