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Country Strategy and Program Update 2002-2004: Maldives

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VI. Performance Monitoring and Evaluation

A. Agreed Performance Indicators

105. The country-specific criteria for PBA reflect the key areas in which project performance merits improvement or which will exert an influence on the future program performance. The Government and ADB have identified indicators relating to specific macroeconomic policy, structural reforms, sector-specific reform, and portfolio performance. Each year, the Government and ADB will develop these indicators further and refine triggers for base, lower, and higher case resource allocation scenarios.

106. Two project-related indicators, in addition to overall portfolio performance, that will be used to assess the performance of the Maldives include (i) provision of adequate managerial and technical staff for the implementation of ADB-assisted projects, and (ii) reduction in delays experienced in the start-up (procurement phase) of ADB-assisted projects. With respect to propoor growth and social development, the country-specific PBA will include (i) completion of the 6NDP and Vision 2020, and preparation of action plans for key ministries (fisheries, education, health, telecommunications, civil aviation, transport, atolls, etc.); (ii) preparation of a plan for tax reform aimed at broadening the revenue base; (iii) establishment of an autonomous regulatory authority for key public utilities; (iv) introduction of more competitive and affordable telecommunications tariffs; (v) improvement of access to postsecondary, vocational, and skillbased education for students in the atolls; (vi) implementation of an improved public sector accounting system; and (vii) establishment of a cluster management and quality improvement program for atoll primary schools. The preset country-specific criteria for 2002 loans are shown in Table 1.

B. Monitoring Process and Plan

107. Since ADB has no resident mission in the Maldives, project implementation has been monitored by project review missions and country portfolio review missions from ADB headquarters. The shift of ADB’s focus to the atolls for poverty reduction will require greater effort to monitor and evaluate projects, including a thorough assessment, at the stage of project formulation, of the institutional capacity to implement projects in remote islands. With respect to the agreed performance indicators, the monitoring responsibility will be shared by the Government and the country team members. Field and site visits will be used to validate reports provided by the Government to ADB. The South Asia Department will periodically assess performance and review the findings of the annual assessment with the Government during country program confirmation missions.

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