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It is important to build awareness on the SFK in the rural areas to increase their uptake and benefits from the initiative.

Project Number: 54265-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Solidarity Fund for Kazakhstan
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The development of specialized expertise requires careful selection and the engagement of qualified consultants and proper management of expectations from all parties. Future thinking and foresight is a specialized expertise. It is crucial to identify and engage consultants with proven experience to ensure they can provide the necessary guidance and insights. It is also a new approach for ADB and thus, clear onboarding, communication, and setting expectations for both Staff and consultants who were critiical to the success of the TA.

Project Number: 52299-001
Project Name: Demonstrating Future Thinking and Foresight in Developing Member Countries
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The identification of appropriate executing agency and implementing agency is essential for achieving the intended outcome and output targets. In this project, the Directorate General of Highways (DGH) should have been involved and appointed as the lead agency in identifying suitable sections for financing.

Project Number: 54396-001
Project Name: Trans Sumatra Toll Road Risk Monitoring
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Frequent changes of key counterparts can slow down complex studies that require access to confidential information and fluent communication.

Project Number: 53054-001
Project Name: Smart Energy System for Mongolia
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Inappropriate stakeholder selection can create complications and challenges during implementation. The main issue during implementation is that the executing agency is not the owner of the toll road project, placing it in an unsuitable position to lead in identifying the sections for financing. Although revising the implementation arrangement by involving DGH as the implementing agency was a measure taken to address the issue, it turned out not to be sufficient.

Project Number: 54396-001
Project Name: Trans Sumatra Toll Road Risk Monitoring
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The selection of suitable participating financial institution (PFI) partners is important to better implement a financial intermediation loan project. PFIs that are financially sound, have good track records, and are committed toward serving rural enterprises and SMEs are likely to be effective in implementing financial intermediation loans.

Project Number: 47305-002, 47305-004
Project Name: Horticulture Value Chain Development Project
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Stringent due diligence based on guidelines on the selection of the implementing agency and/or borrower does not ensure successful project implementation. The investment program, given the available multitranche financing facility, could have opened opportunities for other potential qualified banks with stronger experience in solar rooftop onlending, instead of focusing on a single borrower.

Project Number: 49419-002
Project Name: Solar Rooftop Investment Program - Tranche 1
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EAs/IAs and supreme audit institutions (SAIs) have expressed a substantial demand for capacity development initiatives focused on financial reporting and auditing practices. Increased and more frequent collaborative engagement with SAIs and private auditing firms would facilitate the prioritization of limited TA resources, allowing them to be strategically allocated to address the most critical capacity gaps. EAs/IAs staff training need to continuously focus on timely financial reporting and audit and comprehensive coverage of all project expenditures until financial closing.

Project Number: 52113-001
Project Name: Strengthening Financial Management in Asia and the Pacific, Phase 2
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Inviting borrower representatives such as key personnel from the ministries of finance and government auditors to act as resource speakesr enrich training discussions and hence must be continued. Close coordination with borrowers on selecting the appropriate participants to the seminars should also continue to ensure effectiveness. Target satisfaction rate should be raised to 80% in line with ADB corporate-wide target satisfaction rate for knowledge products.

Project Number: 46534-004
Project Name: Disbursement Capacity Building for Developing Member Countries
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Professional accounting organizations are reliable partners in initiatives to enhance the financial management capacity of DMCs. This TA benefited from an extensive network of partners from the DMCs and various Professional Accounting Organizations. This collaboration facilitated the gathering of substantive inputs localizing best international practices in auditor quality assurance programs, thereby improving the quality of the TA deliverables.

Project Number: 52113-001
Project Name: Strengthening Financial Management in Asia and the Pacific, Phase 2
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The dispersed location of project sites could make implementation management and supervision difficult. The sites of this project were spread in the north, east, and southwest of Chongqing, mostly in mountainous terrain, making management and supervision difficult for both the project management office and ADB.

Project Number: 45509-002
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration II Project
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Inadequate consideration of the project sites' topography and geological conditions in project feasibility studies and detailed engineering designs could lead to unexpected cost increases during implementation. There was a significant cost increase in land acquisition and resettlement due to changes in the project scope and additional land acquisition that needed to be undertaken because of the complex geological conditions in some sites resulting in increased civil works costs in some packages.

Project Number: 45509-002
Project Name: Chongqing Urban-Rural Infrastructure Development Demonstration II Project
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Inappropriate implementation arrangements could lead to significant implementation challenges. Implementation by thromdes created ground-level coordination challenges among multiple institutions that could have been avoided by restructuring implementation arrangements

Project Number: 44240-013
Project Name: Urban Infrastructure Project
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In a project involving several ministries, the choice of the executing agency (or agencies) and the role of each ministry must be carefully assessed and discussed with the government and all concerned ministries.

Project Number: 39305-013
Project Name: Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program
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A more robust assessment of the ability of the recipient agency to implement the proposed capacity-building activities and hire the required consultants and consulting firms in a timely manner is needed in future technical assistance (TA) loans. A smaller TA package could have been considered in view of the frequent changes that typify much of Mongolia’s national government.

Project Number: 49409-001
Project Name: Strengthening Institutional Framework and Management Capacity Project
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