Technical Assistance Performance Audit Report on Selected Technical Assistance for Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Developing Member Countries
Since 1990, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), through its Operations Evaluation Department (OED), has provided 14 technical assistance (TA) grants to build evaluation capability in seven of its developing member countries (DMCs). Three phases can be distinguished in this assistance: (i) phase 1 – an initial round of seven small-scale TAs from 1990 to 1994 to build postevaluation capability in Bangladesh, People’s Republic of China (PRC), Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand; (ii) phase 2 – five TAs between 1995
and 1997 to establish ADB’s project performance management system (PPMS)2 in PRC, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand; and (iii) phase 3 – two TAs, both approved in 1999, to build results monitoring and evaluation (RME) capability in the PRC and the Philippines. The three phases of TAs reflect the evolution in thinking in ADB, which itself has moved from benefit monitoring and evaluation (BME) and postevaluation to a more seamless evaluation framework
applicable at all stages of the project cycle. This technical assistance performance audit report (TPAR) evaluates six of these TAs, a phase 1 and 2 TA in each of three countries—Nepal, Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
TPA: OTH 2001-07
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