Evaluation

Ongoing Evaluations
Evaluation on Indonesia's Urban Sector Assistance: Has the Multisector Approach Been Effective?

Team Leader: Tomoo Ueda, Senior Evaluation Specialist
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This special evaluation study will focus on factors that enhance the performance of urban sector assistance in Indonesia. Since the urban sector assistance and multisector modality are intricately linked, it will determine the effectiveness and additional value of multisector modality in urban sector assistance in Indonesia. The advantages and disadvantages of this modality will be studied carefully, taking into consideration the country/city context and the various project cycle stages. Lessons drawn from the study will provide guidance to the upcoming urban sector assistance in the next country partnership strategy for Indonesia. The lessons will also indicate whether a follow-up study would be needed to understand the effectiveness of multisector modality in other countries.

For the purpose of this evaluation, "urban sector" is defined to include projects that had these subsectors as subcomponents: water supply, sanitation, drainage (or urban flood control), solid waste management, urban roads, kampung (informal housing) improvement project, market infrastructure improvement project, and guided land development (or site-and-services). The evaluation will also include projects that had profound linkages and impacts on those municipal services mentioned above. This will include loans that looked at community development in urban cities, sectoral reform programs in infrastructure sector (which had urban infrastructure legislation), external program prioritization assistance in infrastructure, and masterplan advisory. The study will exclude those projects that focused on rural development or agriculture, irrigation, and emergency and inter-city roads.

To answer the question of whether the multisector approach has been effective for the urban sector assistance in Indonesia, the evaluation will focus on these three key criteria: (i) relevance to the project objectives and goals of the Government and ADB, in the context provided by the international development assistance community; (ii) use of resources, in terms of how efficient (value-addition) the allocation of loans were given the multisector approach, and in the implementation of subprojects; and (iii) implications for results—whether the original intended outcomes were realized, impacts can be seen, and whether technical and institutional sustainability can be observed from completed projects.