Capacity Development in ADB Operations

Review of the Medium-Term Framework and Action Plan for Capacity Development

• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9789292575809
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Corporate Governance
• Index: Business

Bangladesh has transformed its economy over the last 2 decades, graduating to middle-income status as average annual growth remained strong at 5%–6%. The country's goal to become an upper-middle-income country by 2021 will require even stronger annual growth of 7.5%–8%. This study finds that the most critical constraints to growth are (i) insufficient reliable energy supply, (ii) policies that indirectly stunt development of economic activities unrelated to ready-made garment exports, and (iii) insufficient security about property and land rights due in part to inadequate registry systems. If policies are designed to urgently tackle these constraints, Bangladesh will be free to harness its potential for inclusive and sustainable growth.

APPENDIX 1

Qualitative Assessment Methodology

1.The review included a qualitative assessment of 30 country partnership strategies (CPSs), 16 sector assessments and road maps, 30 lending reports and recommendations of the President (RRPs), 20 grant RRPs, and 47 technical assistance reports (TARs) of capacity development technical assistance operations selected randomly, but with the aim of capturing a spread of regions, countries, sectors, and operational modalities. The assessment was limited to the main documents except in cases where supplementary evidence was required from background material and/or completion reports.

2.The qualitative assessment was designed to test the quality-at-entry criteria identified as success indicators in the 2007 capacity development action plan for CPSs, sector assessments and road maps, and operations. These criteria included harmonization and alignment with developing member countries and other development agencies; adequacy of stakeholder involvement; quality of capacity development baseline assessment and strategy; and adequacy of the capacity development performance monitoring systems, including design and monitoring frameworks. At the project level, documents were assessed for t...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Tables, Figures, and Boxes
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Executive Summary
• I. Introduction
• II. ADB’s Capacity Development Approach
• III. Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities in Capacity Development
• IV. Mainstreaming and Quality of Capacity Development in Country Programming and Operations
• V. Internal Support Systems for Capacity Development
• VI. Recommendations
• Appendixes
• References
• Back Cover