Evaluation

Ongoing Evaluations
Sector Assistance Program Evaluation for the Urban Sector and Water Supply and Sanitation in Bangladesh

Team Leader: Walter Kolkma, Senior Evaluation Specialist
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This evaluation assesses the approach and results of ADB's program in the urban sector and water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh, with special attention for comparisons with programs of other major development partners, and the Government of Bangladesh itself. The urban sector is here understood to cover urban infrastructure and the related services, urban housing, urban and local governance, urban drainage, and urban flood protection.

The study feeds into a Bangladesh Country Assistance Program Evaluation planned for 2009, and follows up on an agreement made between representatives of the evaluation units of the World Bank, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, the Government of Japan, and ADB. The agreement was that the four units would undertake evaluation work towards a joint study of aspects of development assistance to Bangladesh over, approximately, the past decade.

The funds channeled through the four development partners are estimated at around 80% of all development aid to Bangladesh. Thus, the evaluation may be in a reasonably good position to address aspects of the aggregate impact of donor aid on a country, and raise more strategic issues. As a minimum, such evaluation work could lead to valuable lessons, and give guidance as to further collaboration in Bangladesh in the future.

Field work for the evaluation is to take place from May to September 2008; help from two domestic consultants and one international consultant is planned.