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Foreword
1. Introduction to the Guidelines
2. User Instructions
3. Preparing and Appraising Investment Project
3.1. Investment Projects Overview
>> 3.2. Possible Investment Projects
3.3. Appraisal Checklists
3.4. Forecasting
3.5. Preparing Financial Benefit-Cost Analyses
3.6. Loan Covenants
3.7. ADB Reports
4. Financial Management of Executing Agencies
5. Reporting and Auditing
6. Financial Institutions
7. Knowledge Management
Financial Management and Analysis of Projects : 3. Preparing and Appraising Investment Project

3.2. Possible Investment Projects

3.2.1. ADB maintains a 3-year rolling program of investment projects. This program forms a guide to the types of revenue-earning and nonrevenue-earning projects and sectors/subsectors that are likely to be involved.

3.2.1.1. The following indicative list of revenue-earning sectors, subsectors, and project activities is intended as a guide to the financial expertise that is likely to be needed during project identification, preparation, appraisal and supervision. The list indicates the sectoral and subsectoral experience likely to be needed from financial analysts.

  • Sectors: Airports, Gas, Harbors, Housing Finance*, Nonbank Financial Institutions*, Plantations, Pumped Storage, Railways, Rural Savings and Credit Unions Development*, Sanitation, Waste Management, Wastewater Treatment, Water Conservancy, Water Supply and Sanitation.
  • Subsectors: Buses, River Erosion Prevention, Toll Roads.
  • Projects: Electric Power, Flood Management, Grain Productivity, Irrigation, Microfinance*, Road Transport, Rural Electrification, Rural Finance*, Small-and Medium-Scale Enterprise (SME) Development*, Urban Development (e.g., water supply), Urban SME Business Development*, Water Resources .

* Finance and Banking sectors

3.2.2. The following lists of revenue-earning and nonrevenue-earning projects indicate the sectors and subsectors and the financial management expertise that the regional departments may require over time. The lists exclude Technical Assistance. The lists are updated as needed to reflect changes in the rolling program.

3.2.2.1. The following list of possible nonrevenue-earning projects is intended as a guide to the expertise that is likely to be needed. Advice from financial analysts may be sought in relation to the cost-recovery aspects and efficiency improvement aspects of some of these projects.

  • Sectors: Accountability Improvement, Economic Corridors Development, Ecosystem Management, Environmental Improvement, Environmental Protection (acid rain), Finance, Governance and Legal Reforms, Information Technology Development, Insurance and Pension Funds Development, Nutritional Improvement/Poverty Alleviation, Public Administration, Public Works Development Program, Rural Development, Rural Employment, Rural Employment and Income Generation, Rural Renewable Energy, Social Action Program, Social Security Reform, Soil Conservation, Women and Children Protection.

  • Subsectors: Education Skills Transfer, Judicial and Legal Reform, Labor Retraining, Land Administration, Teacher Training, Women in Development.

  • Projects: Agriculture Development, Basic Education, Civil Service Reform, Coastal Resources Management, Ecotourism, Health Services, Interregional System Improvements, Natural Resources Management, Nonformal Education, Post-Secondary Education, Rural Infrastructure, Rural Poverty Reduction, Rural Productivity Enhancement, Social Sector Development, Urban Development (e.g., drainage), Urban Environment.


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