2015 Annual Evaluation Review

Abstract

This approach paper presents a draft outline for the next Annual Evaluation Review (AER) which is scheduled for Board discussion on or around 18 April 2015. Preparation and delivery of the AER is being advanced compared to previous years so that it will be publicly available before Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 2015 Annual Meeting (along or before ADB’s Development Effectiveness Review[DEfR]) to provide ADB stakeholders with Independent Evaluation Department’s (IED’s) assessment of ADB performance at that time. Also, the practice of prior discussion by the Development Effectiveness Committee (DEC) is likely to be dispensed with, given the growing practice of detailed discussion of the AER by the full Board. Upon explicit requests of Board members during the discussion of the 2014 AER, the AER may also contain recommendations for ADB for the first time