For the AWUAIP, instead of pursuing the ADB multitranche financing facility, the government decided to accept a loan from the Government of the People’s Republic of China. The government is also dealing with many official development assistance partners, and there are grants and loans with better conditions than ADB loans. The project team insists that the government’s decision to change funding sources was unexpected, through project documents, this validation does not find significant evidence suggesting that ADB actively explored other development partners’ investment plans in the sector, prior to or in the early stage of the loan implementation. ADB should have also assessed its own comparative advantage in offering its assistance to the Philippine development assistance environment in the water sector.
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System New Water Source Development Project