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Updated: 15 July 2011

To achieve greater aid effectiveness, development agencies signified increased commitment to align their assistance programs with the development plans and priorities of their partner countries.

These commitments, formalized under the Paris Declaration, also support the development of partner countries' capacity to plan, implement, and account for results of development policies and programs.

As a signatory to the Paris Declaration, ADB is undertaking initiatives to transform its relationship with developing member countries (DMC) and reorient the business process to ensure that its assistance strategies and operations are aligned with development plans and poverty reduction strategies of its developing member countries. The revised ADB Country Partnership Strategy process recognizes that DMCs may need ADB assistance in strengthening their planning processes and capabilities for undertaking underlying diagnostic and analytical assessments.

To strengthen DMCs' capability for diagnosing and analyzing binding development constraints, ADB has approved the following Technical Assistance projects:

• Strengthening Country Diagnosis and Analysis of Binding Development Constraints in Selected Developing Member Countries Project [ PDF ], a regional technical assistance, for the amount of $650,000 approved on 26 April 2007. The project is expected to enhance the development impacts of the DMCs' own interventions and ADB's lending and nonlending operations in the DMCs. The envisaged outcome is enhanced DMC capacity to undertake development diagnostic studies and formulate development plans or poverty reduction strategies targeting the binding constraints.
  
  
• Development for Partnership Program for South Asia - Bhutan Country Diagnostic Study [ PDF ]
  
  
• a subproject for TA 6337, for the amount of $275,000, approved on 14 July 2010. The project is expected to enhance the development impact of Bhutan's own interventions and ADB's and other development partners' lending and nonlending operations in the country. The outcome is the enhanced capacity of the country in undertaking country/ sector development diagnosis, identifying critical constraints to growth and formulating development plans and poverty reduction strategies addressing them.
  
  
• Diagnosing Critical Constraints to Growth and Structural Transformation in Selected DMCs [ PDF ]
  
  
• a regional technical assistance, for the amount of $1,000,000 approved on 7 December 2010. The project is expected to enhance the development impact of DMCs' medium-term plans and poverty-reduction strategies. The outcome will be the use of diagnostic approaches in assessments and analytical work underlying national development plans.