Evaluations by the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Independent Evaluation Department (IED 2012 and 2013) of ADB's financing to deal with natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific region shed light on the effectiveness of projects implemented to respond to a variety of these…
The 2016 review of evaluation systems in development co-operation looks at the changes and trends in evaluation systems over the last five years (2011-2016)
Middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face several evolving development challenges, including poverty, inequality, unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation and climate change, low productivity and lack of competitiveness, macroeconomic instability, and insufficient economic…
This evaluation assesses ADB's support for Sri Lanka over 2006–2015, to inform the preparation and design of a new country partnership strategy that will guide ADB's Sri Lanka operations from 2017 to 2021.
The Yichang-Wanzhou Railway was the first railway to be developed in the low-income region of Hubei Province, and it constituted an important 377 km component in the central People's Republic of China (PRC) railway corridor, linking Yichang in Hubei Province and Wanzhou in Chongqing…
These guidelines focus on the four core and three non-core assessments to be undertaken for projects by both self- and independent evaluations within the Asian Development Bank.