Second Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Corridor 2 Road Investment Program

Data collection on all Indicators in each tranche project should be ensured to facilitate a reliable assessment of the accomplishments and performance of each project and the entire MFF. The executing agency (EA) is required, as part of the government’s undertakings, to establish a project performance monitoring system to collect and measure baseline data on the performance Indicators in the design and monitoring framework (DMF) during implementation and to submit to ADB, as self-evaluation, the government’s completion report for the implemented projects. Although the EA submitted PCRs for the three tranches, information on a number of performance Indicators in the DMFs was lacking. Inadequate collection and measurement of the data for the performance Indicators constrained the ability of the government and ADB to properly evaluate the performance of the implemented projects. Typically, as with this MFF program, a supervision consultant is tasked with assisting the EA in gathering data for performance Indicators and assessing their performance. Considering this, the EA, as the employer under a supervision consultant contract, should closely monitor the consultant’s work during project implementation and ensure submission of PCRs that meet quality standards.