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Designing workshops to include interactive sessions that promote active participation and feedback from all stakeholders will improve the effectiveness of stakeholder participation. This TA's expert interviews and workshops provided invaluable platforms for stakeholder engagement, facilitating diverse perspectives.

Project Number: 52060-001
Project Name: Building Resilience in the Pacific Small Island Developing States
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High-level ministerial meetings, working-level workshops, and field visits are essential in promoting transparency and capacity and in expanding cooperation.

Project Number: 44184-012
Project Name: Afghanistan and Turkmenistan: Regional Power Interconnection Project
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The sharing of prefeasibility and design reports with all development partners active in the energy sector in the region provides resources for further analytical and advisory work, as well as for financing the investments for regional cooperation and energy trade in the region. The project management offices in both countries were shadowed with consulting teams helping to build capacity and learn the design aspects of technical components.

Project Number: 44184-012
Project Name: Afghanistan and Turkmenistan: Regional Power Interconnection Project
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Close coordination among stakeholders may be most effectively fostered through a combination of approaches/processes, including: (i) the establishment of both formal and informal robust working relationships and conduct of regular exchanges on all levels; (ii)consultants facilitating communications, especially on technical issues, and coordinating regular meetings and exchanges at the working level; and (iii) creation of top-down cooperation and coordination mechanisms, and establishment of institutions to formalize the these processes.

Project Number: 44184-012
Project Name: Afghanistan and Turkmenistan: Regional Power Interconnection Project
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Technical assistance (TA) is important to ensure timely identification and support to critical reforms at challenging times. TA support contributed to the program being implemented within the original timeline. Transaction TA allowed for the development of additional activities that formed the post-program partnership framework (P3F). The practice of including P3F actions in the design of the programmatic policy-based lending should be continued, as it shapes up next-level dialogue with the government. It also helps ADB and the government to maintain a longer-term prospective.

Project Number: 51066-001, 51066-003
Project Name: Finance Sector and Fiscal Management Improvement Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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ADB has successful experiences combining good diagnostics and collaboration with DMC stakeholders with adept and integrated use of operational modalities. Also, remarkable progress in the use of technologies has been observed in the participating DMCs during implementation. These provide the basis for ADB to learn from and upscale innovative practices in DMCs, and globally. Collaboration among possible development partners to conduct joint diagnostics should be promoted for better development outcomes.

Project Number: 54076-001
Project Name: Strengthening Property Tax Management to Enhance Local Revenue
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Gender actions could be strengthened by P3F actions that contribute to future dialogue and maintain the momentum in discussing this sensitive topic.

Project Number: 51066-001, 51066-003
Project Name: Finance Sector and Fiscal Management Improvement Program (Subprograms 1 and 2)
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Approaches to strengthening capacity in property tax development involved the use or introduction of innovative technologies. And to support and disseminate these innovative technologies, pilot projects are proven effective.

Project Number: 54076-001
Project Name: Strengthening Property Tax Management to Enhance Local Revenue
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Additional financing and outsourcing complex tasks to specialized entities support successful TA implementation. ADB hired the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan to conduct the ecological baseline survey. The TA secured financing of $300,000 on a grant basis from the Netherlands Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility. The fund supported the conduct of feasibility studies for a main canal subproject. Without this fund, the feasibility studies would not have been completed.

Project Number: 51249-003
Project Name: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project
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Virtual events are effective for knowledge sharing in a cost-effective manner, but not so suitable for having dialogue for concrete country actions. Therefore, it is necessary for the use of either modality should consider the purpose and objective of the event.

Project Number: 54076-001
Project Name: Strengthening Property Tax Management to Enhance Local Revenue
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Frequent walk-throughs of preparatory work undertaken under transaction TA facilitate stakeholder understanding and uptake of the ensuing project. The TA conducted several capacity building activities, and dissemination of analyses and results from reports for the ensuing project. For transaction TA, frequent walk-throughs of preparatory work among key stakeholders are particularly important in facilitating stakeholder support for the ensuing project.

Project Number: 51249-003
Project Name: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project
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As demonstrated by this TA, knowledge-sharing workshops could serve as venues for active engagement and dialogue with development partners during TA implementation. Involving cofinanciers in these knowledge-sharing is important. Regular knowledge exchange with cofinanciers may also be explored to deepen ADB cofinancing partnerships/relationships.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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The three-step approach of feasibility studies, detailed engineering design, and ensuing project through separate and sequential financing modalities helps in country partnership strategy, programming dialogue, and long-term engagement. The TA has proven this approach to be effective in achieving technical, safeguards, procurement, and implementation readiness in the ensuing project.

Project Number: 51249-003
Project Name: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project
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Workshops play a vital role in knowledge sharing. Given the increasing capacity and acceptability of organizing online events, future knowledge sharing activities may consider utilizing online workshops where applicable, for more cost-efficient TA implementation.

Project Number: 52070-001
Project Name: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Regional Energy Cooperation
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Post-TA financial resources should be sought and considered in order to implement the recommendations made, based on the in-depth diagnostic studies completed for Nepal and Cambodia under the TA. These recommendations will require financial contributions for the effective implementation of an adapted, coherent, transparent, and equitable property tax for all.

Project Number: 54076-001
Project Name: Strengthening Property Tax Management to Enhance Local Revenue
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