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Similar pre-feasibility studies and policy analysis can be replicated across the country and with other developing member countries by building on Yunnan’s experience.

Project Number: 55035-001
Project Name: Research for Demonstration of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technologies in Industrial Sectors of Yunnan Province
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Post-publication knowledge sharing events are critical for the dissemination of knowledge generated by TA projects. Involvement of industry resource persons has value addition. Utilizing various platforms including social media will maximize knowledge sharing and dissemination.

Project Number: 55319-001
Project Name: Southeast Asia Aviation: COVID-19 Impact and Short-term Strategy
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Close collaboration among ADB’s regional departments that support subregional programs and broad participation these subregional programs and their member countries, (i.e. the Central Asia Regional Economic Corridor, the Greater Mekong Subregion program, and the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation program), and development partners are critical in successfully implementing ECD-focused TA. These have helped improve the content and focus of the ECD guidance note produced by the TA.helped improve the ECD guidance note.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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Early engagement with DMCs in knowledge-sharing activities is advisable for TA with comprehensive and complex topics. For this TA, it could have facilitated in-depth discussion and debate among DMCs and development partners on the new concept of ECD, lessons learned from ECD initiatives, and ECD pipeline development.

Project Number: 54423-001
Project Name: A New Operational Economic Corridor Development Framework for Central Asia and Beyond
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Developing a manual on public investment projects’ feasibility study in local language, a TA output with immense value to Uzbekistan, may be replicated in other countries.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Aligning TA knowledge products and services to government report formats and management notes facilitates their use by government agencies and other stakeholders. Derivative products, such as shorter policy briefs and policy discussions, will increase the uptake of the knowledge and recommendations generated by the TA.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Pooling together experts from the requesting government and counterpart experts from ADB in designing a TA project is critical to ensure the TA delivers planned results on time and in accordance with client’s needs and specifications. Despite that it was small-scale, the TA's design was appropriate to the pace of reforms in Uzbekistan and flexible enough to mobilize several experts and deliver the required knowledge products.

Project Number: 52351-001
Project Name: Effective Economic Management
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Coordinated use of TA is essential to support policy based lending, as this modality on its own is not well positioned to develop or deploy needed capacity. The TA grants funded by the Government of Canada provided the hands-on support necessary to develop policy and operating systems, which was followed by the program to provide the leverage to support the actual rollout of the JobStart Philippines Program (JSP).

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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Depending on the public employment service office , it can take a long time to refer the beneficiaries to employers and during this idle time, some lose interest or can no longer be reached. Minimizing this gap between program completion and placement is important to reduce transition losses.

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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Programmatic approaches are an appropriate and effective means to address technically challenging development problems that require long gestation periods. In this case, the government piloted and launched a highly effective program to improve the prospects of young and disadvantaged job seekers, and strengthened several existing labor market activation programs as part of a broader education reform agenda. This process covered more than 6 years and the large technical assistance (TA) grants the program attracted were instrumental to its success.

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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Labor market activation programs, while effective in addressing specific constraints, are not a substitute for sound education policy, quality primary and secondary education, and tertiary education that is both relevant and effective. It is much more difficult to develop, standardize, launch, and institutionalize labor market activation programs as compared to improving the existing education system which already has a nationwide capacity and reach.

Project Number: 49117-002, 49117-003, 49117-004
Project Name: Facilitating Youth School-to-Work Transition Program (Subprograms 1, 2, and 3)
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A centralized and unified real-time web portal expedites the execution of all project processing and decision-making pocedures, and is an invaluable asset to the successful implementation in this day and age. The lack of coordination among various branches across the different zones of India hampered the operations of the tranche 1 project. A beta version of a unified central web portal for the entire investment program that was put in place was not able to minimize the operational hurdles faced by PNB, due to the lack of institutionalization across all branches.

Project Number: 49419-002
Project Name: Solar Rooftop Investment Program - Tranche 1
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To benefit from procurement advance action, the process should begin as early as eight months before loan effectiveness.

Project Number: 46293-003
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Tourism Infrastructure for Inclusive Growth Project
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Setting aside resources to engage startup consultants, such as a a procurement and safeguard specialists, will help mitigate the risk of delays.

Project Number: 46293-003
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Tourism Infrastructure for Inclusive Growth Project
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To avoid and minimize adverse project impact, engineering and social safeguard teams need to work closely to ensure land acquisition and compensation are in line with the approved detailed engineering designs.

Project Number: 46293-003
Project Name: Greater Mekong Subregion Tourism Infrastructure for Inclusive Growth Project
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