This paper documents the Chair's Summary of the Development Effectiveness Committee (DEC) discussion held on 5 April 2022. The committee discussed the Independent Evaluation Department’s (IED’s) Annual Evaluation Review 2022: Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations and Small Island Developing States.
The project was aimed at addressing critical urban environmental issues and improving basic service delivery by providing populations in selected municipalities with better access to municipal infrastructure and services. Its objective was to improve basic urban service provision in four growing municipalities of Dharan, Janakpur, Nepalgunj, and Siddharthanagar, through essential infrastructure investments in urban water supply and sanitation, urban solid waste management (SWM), and urban road sectors.
The project was to finance a slice of the 2006–2020 Master Plan, a medium-term investment plan for Guiyang Municipality. The project was to focus its activities on five segments of the plan: (i) urban water supply; (ii) rural water supply and irrigation; (iii) irrigation system rehabilitation; (iv) soil and water conservation; and (v) small water storage structures.
This report validates the completion report's assessment of the project. IED overall assessment: Less than successful.
The program comprised a policy-based loan (PBL) and a project grant. It was aligned with the government’s Education Sector Development Framework (ESDF) approved in 2009. It combined national reforms with a focus on targeted investments in 30 poor and educationally disadvantaged districts with a majority of ethnic students. The expected impact was improved educational attainment in Lao PDR, and the outcome was enhanced equity, quality, and efficiency of secondary education in the country.
The project's strategy was to support the implementation of recent collective forest tenure reforms, and assist in converting land and labor resources into higher-value and more sustainable tree crop production systems using integrated ecosystem management (IEM) approaches. It was to be implemented in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Xinjiang where forest degradation had been reducing economic and ecological tree crops.
This report validates the completion report's assessment of the project. IED overall assessment: Successful.
ONGOING EVALUATION. This evaluation will assess the performance and results of Asian Development Bank (ADB) support for the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program during 2011–2022. The evaluation will assess both ADB support for the functioning of the CAREC Program, mainly the role of the CAREC Secretariat, and ADB financing of CAREC operations.
The project provided local currency credit to sustain MSME operations during the economic slowdown. It provided funds for working capital and investments to support financial inclusion, especially outside the two major cities of Almaty and Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana) and improve access to finance for women-owned businesses.
This report validates the completion report's assessment of the project. IED overall assessment: Successful.
Selected from a record-breaking 600+ entries across 101 countries, One World Media announced the longlists in all its 15 awards categories. Journalists and filmmakers from around the world shared their greatest human stories of hope, courage, struggle, triumph. From Mongolia to Bhutan, Paraguay to the Solomon Islands, the quality and diversity of the entries this year was very impressive.
Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank, took part in meeting convened by Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General of the UN, to discuss the impact of global food, energy and finance crises exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. President Hoyer also participated as this year’s Chair of the group of multilateral development banks.
EIB President Werner Hoyer joined a live discussion with Atlantic Council’s Julia Friedlander on how EU investment can assist Ukraine, build a resilient energy infrastructure in Europe and contribute to addressing planetary emergencies, such as climate change and food security.
