Regions and Countries

Bangladesh
Country Strategy and Program Update 2005-2006

The Country Strategy and Program (CSP) integrates the country operational strategy study and country assistance plan processes and documents. The core strategic thrust of ADB's intervention aims at reducing poverty by promoting sustainable pro-poor economic growth, supporting inclusive social development, and improving governance. ADB's intervention also aims at promoting private sector development, regional cooperation, and environmental sustainability to accelerate poverty reduction.

Read the CSPU 2005 - 2006.

Archive of Past CSPs/CSPUs

Highlights

ADB's focus is on

• reforming primary and secondary education for improving quality and efficiency of the educational system
• improving the delivery of urban primary health care services, and addressing malnutrition
• building local government capacity to deliver high quality services to the urban poor.

In line with ADB's operating policies, BRM helps to implement gender initiatives in Bangladesh. Several interventions have components that facilitate women's increased access to productive resources, employment opportunities, and social services.

Key areas of focus will be:

• increasing the return on women's labor through improving their access to productive resources and skills development
• strengthening the capacity of institutions to facilitate women's participation in decision-making processes
• providing social protection to vulnerable women.

• Improving governance is the key challenge facing Bangladesh to fully realize the country's growth potentials and achievement of development objectives.
• Sector interventions in energy, transport, financial, and social sectors aim to improve public sector management as well as corporate governance of the post-reform unbundled sector entities.
• Strengthen support for anti-corruption initiatives including support to the Government for establishing an independent anticorruption commission.

• Stimulate private sector development through strengthening both public and private sector operations.
• Assist in developing physical infrastructure and financial sector, improving corporate governance, and developing professionally managed regulatory authorities.

• Foster regional cooperation by assisting the Government to reform the external trade regime and active participation in ongoing South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) assisted by ADB and other subregional cooperation initiatives
• Support improved regional and integrated subregional transport and energy network, including streamlined cross-border arrangements among the countries in the subregion, as well as regional cooperation in tourism, environment, trade, and investment; and enhance the country's position as a transport and transshipment hub, in the subregion.

View the document [ PDF: 430kb | 102 pages ]. To read, you need Acrobat.

Contents

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1. Current Development Trends and Issues

   1. Recent Political and Social Developments
   2. Economic Assessment and Outlook
   3. Implication for the Country Strategy and Program

2. Implementation of the Country Strategy and Program

   1. Progress under the Poverty Reduction Partnership Agreement
   2. Progress in the Country Strategy and Program Focus Areas
   3. Highlights in Coordination of External Funding and Partnership Arrangements

3. Portfolio Management Issues

   1. Portfolio Performance
   2. Performance Monitoring and Evaluation

4. Country Performance and Assistance Levels

   1. Lending Level Proposed
   2. Nonlending Program
   3. Summary of Changes to Lending and Nonlending Program

Appendixes

1. Country and Portfolio Indicators, and Assistance Pipeline [ PDF: 224kb | 38 pages ]

• Table A1.1: Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goals and Targets
• Table A1.2: Country Economic Indicators
• Table A1.3: Country Poverty and Social Indicators
• Table A1.4: Country Environment Indicators
• Table A1.5: Development Coordination Matrix
• Table A1.6: Portfolio Indicators—Portfolio Amounts and Ratings
• Table A1.7: Portfolio Indicators—Disbursements and Net Transfers of Resources
• Table A1.8: Portfolio Indicators—Evaluation Rating by Sector
• Table A1.9: Portfolio Implementation Status
• Table A1.10: Assistance Pipeline for Lending Products
• Table A1.11: Assistance Pipeline for Nonlending Products and Services



2. Concept Papers for Lending Products [ PDF: 180kb | 23 pages ]

3. Concept Papers for NonLending Products and Services [ PDF: 185kb | 27 pages ]

4. Assistance Program for 2004 [ PDF: 74kb | 3 pages ]