Urban Sector Strategy and Operations
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Medium Term Strategy II has recently announced urban infrastructure as one of ADB's core sectors. This study rates ADB's operations in this sector as broadly successful. The ambitions of expansion of the urban sector program in ADB's first urban sector strategy (1999) were not fully realized.
Executive Summary
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- Introduction
- Background and Rationale for the Study
- The 1999 Urban Sector Strategy
- Main Evaluation Questions
- Organization of the Study
- Urbanization in Asia
- Trends
- Needs
- Relation of Sector with the Millennium Development Goals
- ADB's Focus on the Urban Sector
- Genesis of the Urban Sector Strategy
- Organizational and Other Changes in ADB
- ADB Assistance to the Urban Sector
- Lending Program in Numbers and Volume
- Project Developments After the Urban Sector Strategy of 1999
- Capacity Development in Urban Sector Projects
- Technical Assistance Program
- ADB's Knowledge Management in the Urban Sector
- ADB Assessments of Completed Urban Sector Projects
- Assessment of Urban Sector Projects by Operations Departments
- Assessment of Completed Urban Sector Projects by the OED
- Assessment of Completed TA Grants by Operations Departments and OED
- Assessments of Benefits and Problems of Ongoing Projects by Project Managers
- ADB's Added Value: Views from People's Republic of China, India and Philippines
- People's Republic of China
- India
- Philippines
- Conclusions from the Country Case Studies
- Potential Effect of ADB Policy Initiatives
- Evaluation and Recommendations
- Key Questions
- Rating of the Urban Sector Strategy and Urban Sector Operations
- Suggestions for a New Urban Sector Strategy
- Recommendations for ADB
Appendixes
- Methodology of the Questionnaire Survey of Ongoing Urban Sector Projects
- Urban Sector Projects Approved from July 1993 to June 2005
- List of All Urban Sector Related Technical Assistance Grants
- Urban Sector Needs
- Asian Development Bank's Lending to the Urban Sector
- Findings from All 51 Project Completion Reports for Urban Sector Projects, Issued Between Mid-1998 and Mid-2005
- Country Case Studies: People's Republic of China, India and Philippines
- Comparison of Questionnaire Survey Findings in People's Republic of China, India and Philippines
- Innovation and Efficiency Initiative and Other Policy and Business Process Initiatives, with Comments on Relevance for Urban Sector
- Lessons from Urban Sector Experience
- Lessons Drawn from 51 Project Completion Reports Issued Between 1998 and 2005 in the Urban Sector
Management Response
DEC Chair Summary
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