Country Partnership Strategy: Responding to the New Aid Architecture: Report of the Country Partnership Strategy Working Group

Asian Development Bank | November 2009
Abstract
Country partnership strategies (CPSs) provide frameworks for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to engage with each developing member country (DMC). CPSs are the primary platform for designing operational programs to deliver development results at the country level. Directions for their preparation need to respond to some significant recent changes. ADB's new long-term strategic framework (Strategy 2020),1 its commitment to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness,2 and the refinement of ADB's corporate results framework necessitate a review of the business processes for CPS preparation. The CPS working group reviewed the relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency of the existing CPS process. Relevance relates to ensuring that the CPS processes are in line with international best practices for development assistance and with ADB's mandate. Effectiveness refers to achieving the impact expected by doing things in the right way, i.e., by identifying priority operations areas to maximize impact and track performance. Efficiency refers to undertaking a process and achieving a relevant and effective product at minimum resource cost. The review identifies weaknesses in all three areas, and proposes remedies that can be implemented quickly within the existing institutional structure. The adjustments are expected to deliver substantial gains in quality, mainstream knowledge management, and generate resource savings.
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Asian Development Bank. 2009. Country Partnership Strategy: Responding to the New Aid Architecture: Report of the Country Partnership Strategy Working Group. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3517. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Public Policy Evaluation
Project Evaluation & Review Technique
Operations Evaluation
Governance
Corporate Governance Reform
Public Administration
Institutional Framework
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