Bangladesh Resident Mission

	Process of CSP Preparation
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Supporting Implementation of NPRS

Fully consistent with the Millennium Development Goals, Bangladesh's national poverty reduction strategy (NPRS) aims to halve the number of poor people by 2015, and to achieve substantial improvement in most aspects of human development, built on the policy triangle of growth, human development and governance.

ADB's new CSP is aligned with the NPRS vision, strategies and priorities. The new strategy is built on:

• improving the investment climate for private sector led growth and employment
• advancing the social development agenda to empower the poor so that all benefit from growth
• addressing key governance issues as a crosscutting enabler

ADB's role

ADB will play a major role in supporting policy and institutional reforms to increase sector efficiency in the energy, transport, education, urban health, and urban water supply and sanitation sectors. In other areas such as agriculture (i.e., agribusiness), water resource management, and the financial sector (including small- and medium-sized enterprise development), ADB will play a supportive role to initiatives led by other partners.

Key features of ADB operations over the CSP period are:

• building country capacity and ensuring community participation (especially by women and disadvantaged groups) in designing and implementing projects
• cross cutting issues such as disaster mitigation, regional cooperation and environment
• aligning private sector operations to complement ADB's public sector operations to address critical infrastructure and policy constraints to attract private domestic and foreign investment

ADB will scale up its assistance in improving local governance by building local government capacity in planning and delivering local services through partnership with the private sector and civil society. These efforts will be address

• critical constraints to core governance, including measures aimed at combating corruption,
• improving access to justice and building governance management capacity in cooperation with other development partners
• corruption risks in ADB's own programs, through enhanced disclosure, strengthened supervision and better enforcement.

Monitoring and evaluation

ADB will assist the Government in building the capacity of existing monitoring and evaluation systems. The Government and the development partners have agreed on a process of joint monitoring and managing for results to help maintain the momentum and spirit of harmonization and alignment to support poverty reduction in Bangladesh.

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