Ensure adequate ADB support for project implementation. By definition, the knowledge, skills, and experience needed to guide and embed innovative change are likely to be scarce in both the borrowing countries and in ADB. It is evident that additional time and resources are required to support implementation, which did not happen in the case of the DEMP. This should include longer, more intensive, and more frequent review missions, and supplementation of missing technical skill areas by bringing in additional staff from across ADB or engaging external support for review missions in particular. Technical assistance to strengthen the expertise available under the loan and ensure ongoing support to implementation may also be necessary. If the sector department is not committed to providing additional resources and support to innovative projects, then these projects should not proceed.
Distance Education Modernization Project