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ADB Reorganization

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The President's Message
Reorganization Designed to Improve ADB's Effectiveness

President Tadao Chino

As of 1 January 2002, ADB implemented a new organizational sructure so that it can better deliver its mandate of poverty reduction and effectively respond to the needs of its developing member countries (DMCs).

In order to provide the best services to its DMCs, ADB must have a clear goal, a comprehensive strategy to achieve this goal, and an efficient and effective organization to deliver it. All of these elements are mutually reinforcing and necessary to maximize our development impact. In early 1999, I announced that poverty reduction in the Asia and Pacific region would be ADB's overarching goal. Since then, ADB has put, among others, two particularly significant initiatives in place-the Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Long-Term Strategic Framework (LTSF) covering the period from 2001 to 2015. The reorganization will help us address the critical operational objective of strengthening ADB's organizational capacity to reduce poverty in the region and to deliver the LTSF agenda.

Over the past year, the Bank has carefully designed a new organizational structure that is best suited to meet its own needs as well as to respond to the needs of our DMCS. The reorganization derives from a thorough review of the current organizational structure. Additionally, months of consultations within ADB, combined with views of outside experts and the experience of other development institutions, have also been taken into account. Comprehensive discussions were held at two Board meetings and ADB's new organizational structure was approved by the Board in October 2001.

A particularly important aspect of the reorganization is a stronger country and subregional focus. This focus will improve the quality of ADB's assistance programs to individual DMCs and promote effective subregional cooperation for greater development impact.

The reorganization will also improve our own work environment at ADB, raise our output, and enhance the efficient and effective management of our knowledge and information resources. ADB's reorganization will be complemented by other changes, including improvements to our business processes, all of which are designed to meet the profound development challenges facing us in the 21st century.

In summary, I am fully committed to ensuring that the reorganization enhances ADB's effectiveness, thereby helping us to better serve our DMCs and reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific.

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