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Lesson
The design and monitoring framework (DMF) and monitoring and reporting mechanism need to be carefully developed at the planning stage. The outcome statement of the TA was not appropriate as it is too narrow and should be more focused on the TA benefits to Maldives. Outcome targets were too ambitious since there were several contributing factors outside the scope of the TA that affected their achievements. With a small country portfolio, unexpected delays in one or two projects will make the target unachievable. Having an outcome indicator at the broader level could help avoid that.

Project Number: 52006-001
Project Name: Capacity Building for Country Programming and Portfolio Management
Report Date: 31 Jul 2024

Lesson
Program design and implementation in least developed (and fragile) countries need to take account of the limited administrative capacity of the government. While ADB designed a program which supported the government in undertaking reforms and sufficient consulting services resources to help bridge capacity gaps, the timeframe for the program was too ambitious and ADB did not provide adequate continuity in the staff providing project supervision. These deficiencies contributed to the underperformance in program outcomes.

Project Number: 46059-001, 46059-002
Project Name: Governance and Capacity Development in Public Sector Management Program - Subprogram 2
Report Date: 04 Apr 2022

Content type

  • Lesson (2)

Countries

  • Lao People’s Democratic Republic (1)
  • Maldives (1)

Sectors

  • (-) Public sector management (2)
    • Public administration (1)
    • Economic affairs management (1)
    • Public expenditure and fiscal management (1)
  • Energy (1)
  • Information and communication technology (1)

Themes

  • (-) Inclusive Economic Growth (2)
  • Governance and Capacity Development (2)
  • Gender Equity and Mainstreaming (1)
  • Knowledge Solutions (1)

Report Year

  • 2024 (1)
  • 2022 (1)

Report Source

  • Technical assistance completion reports (1)
  • Validation of self-evaluation (1)

Report Rating

  • Less than successful (1)
  • Successful (1)

Applicability

  • Program-level (1)
  • Results framework and methodology level (1)

Topics

  • Awareness and communication strategies (1)
  • Beneficiary targeting (3)
  • Beneficiary targetting (2)
  • Budgeting (1)
  • Capacity development (9)
  • Commitment and leadership (2)
  • Country context (10)
  • Crosscutting issues and themes (2)
  • Data availability and baselines (9)
  • Disasters (8)
  • Economic (1)
  • Emergency assistance (11)
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  • Environmental (1)
  • Epidemics (30)
  • Finance and financial aspects (2)
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  • Gender (6)
  • Indicators (9)
  • Institutional (13)
  • Inter and intra government relations (1)
  • Methodologies / approaches (38)
  • Methodologies and approaches (4)
  • Modality (10)
  • Monitoring and evaluation (27)
  • Natural disasters (13)
  • Organizational capacity (3)
  • Others (5)
  • Pandemics (4)
  • Policy and reform (16)
  • Political (1)
  • Procurement (2)
  • Project design (45)
  • Project management (6)
  • Project reporting (2)
  • Reporting and supervision (1)
  • Sector issues (2)
  • Skilled human resources (1)
  • Social (1)
  • Staff turnover (2)
  • Stakeholder engagement (30)
  • Stakeholder selection (4)
  • Technical (6)
  • (-) Overambitious objectives (2)

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