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Country Diagnostic Studies
Updated: 27 June 2008
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 approved Strengthening Country Diagnosis and Analysis of Binding Development Constraints in Selected Developing Member Countries Project , a regional technical assistance, for the amount of $650,000 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. The project will undertake country-specific diagnostic studies in four DMCs, beginning with the Philippines and Tajikistan in the first stage.
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