Strengthening Financial Management in Asia and the Pacific, Phase 2

For a TA to enhance governance and financial management, close engagement with the DMCs’ institutions is critical for timely realizing the outputs and results. Delays in the Department of the Auditor General of Pakistan's acceptance of the revised audit quality management framework and publication of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards implementation roadmap for Uzbekistan could have been avoided if more country missions had been planned and conducted or if there had been outposted ADB financial management specialists who may have kept close contact with the counterparts.