Evaluation

Ongoing Evaluations
Annual Report on 2007 Portfolio Performance

Team Leader: Walter Kolkma, Senior Evaluation Specialist
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The Operations Evaluation Department has been charged with the preparation of an Annual Report on Portfolio Performance since 2002. In transferring responsibility to OED from ADB's Central Operations Services Office, the intent was to make the report more evaluative (and less a simple compilation of data) through more in-depth analysis of the reasons behind the trends. It was also consistent with the desire to bring evaluation forward in the project cycle by conducting more “real time evaluations” (being the evaluation of ongoing operations). The report has succeeded to some extent in becoming more evaluative but further progress is needed.

The report presents data regarding ADB's operations for a calendar year and an assessment of ADB portfolio performance using standard indicators that largely track input use. ADB does not routinely track results of its operations in a manner that can be reported in an aggregate report like this Annual Report on Portfolio Performance. The report for each year also includes the findings of analysis of some issues of particular interest to portfolio performance—usually these topics have emerged from the analysis in the previous ARPP. These special topics have been one way in which OED has sought to make the report more evaluative.