Bangladesh : Capacity Building for Portfolio Management
The TA will continue earlier support (see below) over a longer period and in a more targeted way primarily (i) addressing identified weak capacities of implementing/executing agencies (EA), line ministries, Foreign Aided Projects Audit Directorate, and Planning Ministry in project preparation, approval, monitoring and implementation; (ii) identifying and addressing bottlenecks/gaps; and (iii) support system development. This will lead to timely and early government approval of ADB projects; reduced time for contracting, land acquisition and resettlement; reduced start-up delays; improved governance and raised contract and disbursement ratios.
Project Details
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Project Officer
Haque, Mohammed Sayeedul
South Asia Department
Request for information -
Country/Economy
Bangladesh -
Modality
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Sector
- Public sector management
| Project Name | Capacity Building for Portfolio Management | ||||||||||||
| Project Number | 45376-001 | ||||||||||||
| Country / Economy | Bangladesh |
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| Project Status | Closed | ||||||||||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Strategic Agendas | Inclusive economic growth |
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| Drivers of Change | Governance and capacity development |
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| Sector / Subsector | Public sector management / Economic affairs management |
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| Gender | No gender elements | ||||||||||||
| Description | The TA will continue earlier support (see below) over a longer period and in a more targeted way primarily (i) addressing identified weak capacities of implementing/executing agencies (EA), line ministries, Foreign Aided Projects Audit Directorate, and Planning Ministry in project preparation, approval, monitoring and implementation; (ii) identifying and addressing bottlenecks/gaps; and (iii) support system development. This will lead to timely and early government approval of ADB projects; reduced time for contracting, land acquisition and resettlement; reduced start-up delays; improved governance and raised contract and disbursement ratios. TA design was formulated and will be implemented building on success and lessons learned from CDTA 7614 , including preparing of specific capacity building program at the outset of the assignment, more involvement of ADB staff and skilled government resource persons to make the training more cost effective and relevant, and using more realistic and measurable outcome and output indicators to allow for proper monitoring and evaluation of results. | ||||||||||||
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | To provide technical assistance (TA) to support governance and capacity building to enhance operational efficiency of the ADB Bangladesh portfolio | ||||||||||||
| Impact | Enhanced operational effectiveness of ADB''s Bangladesh portfolio |
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| Project Outcome | |
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| Description of Outcome | Satisfactory implementation of projects in full compliance with ADB Guidelines |
| Progress Toward Outcome | Progress is satisfactory. Various training, seminars and workshops have been conducted in compliance with ADB guidelines. |
| Implementation Progress | |
| Description of Project Outputs | 1. Improved capacity in procurement and governance of executing agencies and line ministries implementing ADB projects 2. Improved readiness of ADB projects 3. Improved financial reporting and auditing of ADB projects 4. Improved results-based monitoring of ADB projects, sharing of best practices, and knowledge management |
| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | 1. Under the TA, seventeen (20) safeguards workshops, seven (9) gender workshops, nineteen (24) procurement clinics, eight (8) audit workshops, one (1) business opportunity seminar, and 1 knowledge sharing event have been held. Procurement consultant and training consultant have been mobilized to organize (1) workshops, clinic style seminars and on-the job training have been conducted. Over 380 participants have been trained. (2) Two (2) trainings on web-based procurement activities monitoring tool (PAMT) was conducted for 34 officials of EAs/IAs. As of 31 Aug 2018, 31 (75%) among the procurement-active 41 projects have started using PAMT. PAMT has been upgraded to have alerts feature and mobile based application. These features enable users to monitor the progress online and improve procurement process.2. Planning consultant conducted a workshop on the best practices on the government approval (DPP/TPP) process in the region. He is also following up with DPP/TPP approval in different line ministries, planning divisions, planning commission and agencies etc.3. Audit consultant conducted series of workshops for FAPAD staff and executing agencies staff on ADB's guidelines for financial reporting and auditing, international audit standards etc. Over 980 participants have been trained.4. Ten consultants with varying duration have been engaged so far in various consulting areas, such as, portfolio management (18 PM), safeguards (1.5 PM), environment (7.5 PM), procurement (13 PM), planning (9.3 PM), training (4.3 PM), and audit (10.5 PM).5.. Under the TA so far fourteen high level portfolio monitoring meetings/missions including (13) TPRMs, two (2) country portfolio review missions have been conducted primarily on quarterly basis. 5. TA closing date has been extended to December 2018 with additional financing of $225,000, for a cumulative amount of $850,000. 6. TA closure process has been completed. |
| Geographical Location | Nation-wide |
| Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects | |
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| Involuntary Resettlement | |
| Indigenous Peoples | |
| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
| During Project Design | Economic Relations Division (ERD) under the Ministry of Finance has been consulted in preparing the TA concept and COBP. Discussions were also held with Foreign Aided Projects Audit Directorate under the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General for the support to the audit process, and Central Procurement and Technical Unit under Ministry of Planning for support on procurement management. Action plans agreed during CPRM (2012 and after) and TPRM (June 2012 and after) were taken into account when formulating the TA. The impact, outcome, outputs, implementation arrangements, cost, financing arrangements, and terms of reference were agreed with the government during the fact-finding mission. |
| During Project Implementation | Training plan and progress has been shared with ERD. |
| Business Opportunities | |
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| Consulting Services | The TA will be carried out by international and national individual consultants and resource persons (around 3 person-months of international and 18 person-months of national consultant inputs) who will be engaged following procedures for recruitment of individual consultants or resource persons as applicable on an as-needed basis for studies, training, or capacity development. The consultants engaged under the TA will be recruited by ADB in accordance with its Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2013, as amended from time to time). Equipment will be procured using shopping procedures in accordance with ADB's Procurement Guidelines (2013, as amended from time to time) and will be turned over to the government after completion of the TA. Consulting services will commence in August 2013 and continue on an intermittent basis till August 2015. |
| Procurement | n/a |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Haque, Mohammed Sayeedul |
| Responsible ADB Department | South Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Bangladesh Resident Mission (BRM) |
| Executing Agencies |
Ministry of Finance |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 24 Jun 2013 |
| Fact Finding | 23 Jun 2013 to 23 Jun 2013 |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 13 Aug 2013 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 28 Mar 2019 |
TA 8426-BAN
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 13 Aug 2013 | 26 Aug 2013 | 26 Aug 2013 | 15 Aug 2015 | 31 Dec 2018 | 29 Mar 2019 |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 850,000.00 | 0.00 | 60,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 910,000.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 745,404.43 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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| Capacity Building for Portfolio: Technical Assistance Completion Report | TA Completion Reports | Jun 2020 |
| Capacity Building for Portfolio Management | Technical Assistance Reports | Aug 2013 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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| Bangladesh: Capacity Building for Portfolio Management | Validation of Technical Assistance Completion Reports | Apr 2021 |
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Tenders
| Tender Title | Type | Status | Posting Date | Deadline |
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| Capacity Building for Portfolio Management | Individual - Consulting | Closed |
Contracts Awarded
Procurement Plan
None currently available.