Projects

Week 1

Monday,
6 October

Introduction & Overview

8:00 – 8:15

Transport from Linden Suites to ADB Headquarters

8:15 - 8:30

ADB visitors' registration and temporary ID issuance (at the Visitors Registration Center)

8:30 - 9:15
With coffee

• Program registration
• Photo-taking for the Program ID

9:15 - 9:20

Introduction of Vice President

H.J. Yu
Director, Human Resources Division

9:20 – 9:45

Welcome

Ursula Schaefer-Preuss
Vice President, Knowledge Management & Sustainable Development

9:45 – 11:30

• Introductions & Objectives Setting
• Administrative Briefing
• Program Overview

Sally Pedersen
Head, Learning and Development Unit, Human Resources Division

11:30 – 12:00

Documentary:"Fighting Poverty in the Asia-Pacific Region"

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:30

Role of ADB in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities

Rajat Nag
Managing Director General

• Presentation [ PDF: 869kb | 14 pages ]

2:30 – 3:00

ADB Historical Perspective and Organization

• Legal Framework
• Corporate structure
• Membership
• The Board

• Presentation

3:00 – 3:15

Coffee break

3:45 – 4:15

Security Briefing

Richard Jacobson
Head, Security and Emergency Services,
Office of Administrative Services

• Presentation [ PDF: 1,101kb | 15 pages ]

4:15 – 4:45

Information Resources & Services Orientation

Albert Atkinson
Head, Information Resources and Services Unit,
Office of Administrative Services

4:45 – 5:00

Tour of ADB Headquarters

5:30 – 7:00

Welcome Cocktails (at the Courtyard)

Hosted by
Masayuki Tamagawa
Director General, Budget,
Personnel and Management Systems Department

Welcome Remarks by
Haruhiko Kuroda
President, ADB

 9:00 - 9:15

Learning Reflection

4:15 – 4:45

Regional and Sustainable Development Department (RSDD):
Knowledge Solutions for Quality and Innovation

Xianbin Yao
Director General,
Regional and Sustainable Development Department

10:00 – 10:15

Coffe break

10:15 – 12:00

Climate Change

• Overview
• ADB initiatives
• Funding options

• Presentation [ PDF: 2,265kb | 34 pages ]

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:15

Governance and Capacity Development

Kathleen Moktan
Director, Capacity Development and Governance Division,
Regional and Sustainable Development Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 354kb | 24 pages ]

2:30 – 3:15

Social Services Delivery

Sonomi Tanaka
Principal Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development),
Gender, Social Development and Civil Society Division,
Regional and Sustainable Development Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 737kb | 16 pages ]

• Presentation [ PDF: 138kb | 13 pages ]

3:15 – 3:30

Coffee break

3:30 – 4:15

Sustainable Transport and Urban Services

James Leather
Senior Transport Specialist, Energy, Transport and Water Division,
Regional and Sustainable Development Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 2,796kb | 30 pages ]

4:15 – 5:30

Learning Review

9:00 – 9:30

Learning Review

9:30 – 10:30

ADB's Strategic Directions: Strategy 2020
(Long-Term Strategic Framework 2008-2020)

• Development challenges
• ADB's vision and strategic agenda
• Core areas of operations

• Presentation [ PDF: 1,764kb | 15 pages ]

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00

Implementing Strategy 2020

• Institutional changes
• Resources (OCR, ADF, other funds)
• Operations planning cycle
• Monitoring progress

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00

Achieving Development Effectiveness Together

• Community of Practice in Managing for Development Results (MfDR)
• Results-based country programming (Nepal, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Laos)
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

• Presentation [ PDF: 638kb | 24 pages ]

3:00 – 3:30

Coffee break

3:30 – 4:30

Regional Economic Integration

Srinivasa Madhur
Director, Office of Regional Economic Integration

• Presentation [ PDF: 150kb | 15 pages ]

4:30 – 5:30

Learning Review

Dialogue with Vice President

Zhao Xiaoyu
Vice President, Operations 1

9:30 - 10:30

Private Sector Participation in Development

S. Chander
Deputy Director General,
Private Sector Operations Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 352kb | 24 pages ]

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00

Project Cycle in ADB Operations

John Cooney
Director, Southeast Asia Infrastructure Division,
Southeast Asia Regional Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 12,244kb | 49 pages ]

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00

Role of Regional Departments (RDs) and Resident Missions:
Towards Better Coordination and Communication
among DMCs, RMs and ADB HQ

Sean O'Sullivan
Deputy Director General, Central and West Asia Regional Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 678kb | 25 pages ]

• Presentation [ PDF: 152kb | 14 pages ]

3:00 – 3:15

Coffee break

3:15 – 4:15

Accountability Mechanism

• Presentation [ PDF: 8,093kb | 46 pages ]

4:15 – 5:30

Learning Review

9:00 – 9:30

Pacific Region

Hafeez Rahman
Director General,
Pacific Regional Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 334kb | 14 pages ]

9:30 – 10:00

Southeast Asia Region

Thomas Crouch
Deputy Director General,
Southeast Asia Regional Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 1,642kb | 15 pages ]

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee break

10:15 – 10:45

South Asia Region

Kunio Senga
Director General, South Asia Regional Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 2,549kb | 44 pages ]

10:45 – 11:15

Central and West Asia Region

Juan Miranda
Director General, Central & West Asia Regional Department

11:15 – 11:45

East Asia Region

Klaus Gerhaeusser
Director General, East Asia Regional Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 964kb | 23 pages ]

11:45 – 12:00

Discussion

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:00

Group Photo-taking (at the Courtyard)
View the photo.

2:00 – 5:00

Participants' Meetings with Regional Departments

Tour of Metro Manila

Week 2

9:00 – 10:00

Learning Team Presentations of Week 1 Learnings

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee break

10:15 – 12:00

ADB's Financial Structure and Resource Mobilization
The Role of ADB in the Greater Mekong Subregion

• Ordinary Capital Resources (OCR) Operations
• Asian Development Fund (ADF) Operations

• Presentation [ PDF: 280kb | 18 pages ]

• Presentation [ PDF: 548kb | 27 pages ]

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:30

PHI: Electricity Market Development Project

Yongping Zhai
Principal Infrastructure Specialist, Southeast Asia

• Presentation [ PDF: 1,660kb | 23 pages ]

2:30 – 2:45

Coffee break

2:45 – 4:30

Site Visit: Wholesale Electric Spot Market (WESM)

9:00 – 10:30
With coffee

Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) Design and Delivery

• Presentation [ PDF: 286kb | 22 pages ]

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00
With coffee

Monitoring and Implementation of Results-Based Country Partnership Strategy

Hans Carlsson
Principal Project Performance Management Specialist,
South Asia Office of the Director General

• Presentation [ PDF: 633kb | 31 pages ]

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 4:00
With Coffee

Design and Monitoring Framework

Andrea Iffland
Principal Project Management Specialist, Central Operations Services Office

• Presentation [ PDF: 964kb | 49 pages ]

4:00 - 4:30

Briefing for Field Visits

Paulus van Klaveren
Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, Social Sectors Division,
Southeast Asia Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 658kb | 12 pages ]

4:30 – 5:30

Learning Review

8:00 - 1:30

Visit to ADB Project Sites

• Pasig River Environment Management Project
• Rodriguez Rizal Resettlement Site

1:00 – 2:30

Lunch (at the Executive Dining Room Coffee Lounge)

2:30 – 5:00

Briefing and initial discussions on presentations to Regional Directors General.

9:00 – 10:00

Public Communication Policy

Ann Quon
Director, Department of External Relations

• Presentation [ PDF: 752kb | 20 pages ]

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee break

10:15 – 11:00

Introduction to the ADB Website

Graham Dwyer
Web Specialist, Department of External Relations

• Presentation [ PDF: 766kb | 10 pages ]

11:00 – 11:30

Workshop on the on-line DMC Community of Practice

Carmina Esguerra

• Presentation [ PDF: 494kb | 12 pages ]

11:30 – 12:00

Workshop on the on-line MfDR Community of Practice

Guanghui Li
Advisor, Results Management Unit

12:00 – 1:30

Working Lunch at PDRs 2-4
"Greening the Work Environment – ADB Walking the Talk"

Amarjit Wasan
Director General, Office of Administrative Services

Chatiya Nantham
Head, Facilities Planning and Management Unit, Office of Administrative Services

• Presentation [ PDF: 1,209kb | 24 pages ]

1:30 – 2:30

The Role of the Central Operations Services

• Towards Harmonization of Guidelines

• Presentation [ PDF: 84kb | 14 pages ]

2:30 – 3:30

Supporting ADB's Long-term Strategic Framework

• ADB's Human Resources Policy

• Presentation [ PDF: 213kb | 6 pages ]

3:30 – 4:00

Coffee break

4:00 – 5:30

Preparation of presentations to Regional Directors General

7:00

Informal Function

BPHR

9:00 – 10:30

Independent Evaluation

Ramesh Adhikari
Director, Operations Evaluation Division 1

• Presentation [ PDF: 1,793kb | 22 pages ]

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 12:00

ADB's Results Framework

Shiladitya Chatterjee
Practice Leader (Poverty Reduction), Regional and Sustainable Development Department

• Presentation [ PDF: 176kb | 15 pages ]

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 2:15

Anticorruption and Fraud Awareness

• Presentation [ PDF: 1,501kb | 48 pages ]

2:15 – 3:45

Multi Tranche Financing Facility

Elsie Araneta
Principal Evaluation Specialist, Operations Evaluation Division 1

• Presentation [ PDF: 558kb | 8 pages ]

3:45 – 4:00

Coffee break

4:00 – 4:30

Cofinancing Operations

Werner Liepach
Principal Director, Office of Cofinancing Operations

• Presentation [ PDF: 2,042kb | 50 pages ]

4:30 – 5:00

Dialogue with Vice President

C. Lawrence Greenwood
Vice President, Operations 2

5:00 – 6:00

Movie: "The Inconvenient Truth"

Visit to the International Rice Research Institute at
Los Baños, Laguna and Tagaytay City

Week 3

Monday,
20 October

Electives
Participants must complete 5 electives
(indicate preferences by 14 October)

9:00 – 12:00

• Elective 1
  Opportunities for Public
  – Private Partnerships in Infrastructure and Services in the Pacific
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Stephen Blaik Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, Pacific Operations Division Anand Chiplunkar Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, Regional & Sustainable Development Department

  
  
  
• Elective 2
  Carbon Markets Initiatives:
  Asia Pacific Carbon Fund and Future Carbon Funds and Energy Efficiency
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Toru Kubo Senior Clean Energy and Climate Change Specialist, Energy, Transport and Water Division, Regional & Sustainable Development Department Joseph Carmody Senior Project Specialist (Clean Energy and Climate Change), Energy, Transport and Water Division, Regional & Sustainable Development Department Jiwan Acharya Climate Change Specialist, Transport and Water Division, Regional & Sustainable Development Department

  
  
  
• Elective 3
  Microfinance for Inclusive Development
  
  

  Principal Resource Person:

  Nimal Fernando Practice Leader (Microfinance) Office of the Director General, East Asia Department Presentation [ PDF: 630kb | 26 pages ]

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 4:30

• Elective 4
  Procurement of Goods, Works and Consulting Services in ADB Projects
  
  
  • Presentation [ PDF: 665kb | 54 pages ]
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Terence Woods Senior Procurement Specialist Central Operations Services Division 1, Central Operations Services Office Robert Rothery Principal Procurement Specialist COS1

  
  
  
• Elective 5
  Private Sector Development
  - Financing Modalities and Capital Market Transactions
  
  

  Principal Resource Person:

  Jo Yamagata Director, Infrastructure Finance Division 2, Private Sector Operations Department Presentation [ PDF: 1,381kb | 92 pages ]

• Elective 6
  Managing for Outcomes in the DMCs
  
  

  Principal Resource Person:

  Bruce Purdue Head, Results Management Unit, Strategy and Policy Department

9:00 – 12:00

• Elective 7
  Results – Based Partnerships in the Pacific
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Bruxe Purdue Head Results Management Unit, SPRU Hans Van Rijn Governance Specialist RSCG Stephen Pollard Principal Economist Pacific Department, PARD Richard Bolt Principal Evaluation Specialist, OED2

  
  
  
• Elective 8
  Safeguards and Civil Society Participation for Project Quality
  
  
  • Presentation [ PDF: 4,003kb | 49 pages ]
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Xiaoying Ma Senior Environment Specialist, Environment and Social Safeguard Division, Regional and Sustainable Division Department Bart Edes Head, NGO and Civil Society Center Regional and Sustainable Division Department

  
  
  
• Elective 10
  Mobilizing Resources for DMCs through Cofinancing
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Christophe Bellinger Principal Guarantees and Syndications Specialist, Office of Cofinancing Operations Presentation [ PDF: 107kb | 30 pages ] Riccardo Loi Principal Financing Partnerships Specialist Office of Cofinancing Operations

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 – 4:30

• Elective 11
  Project Implementation: e-Handbook
  
  

  Principal Resource Person:

  Chi Nai Chong Principal Procurement Specialist Central Operations Services Division 2, Central Operations Services Office

  
  
  
• Elective 13
  Financial Reporting and Loan Administration
  to Support Project Implementation
  
  
  • Presentation [ PDF: 1,862kb | 72 pages ]
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Hong-Sang Jung Controller Office of the Controller Qiao Yong Senior Financial Control Specialist Loan Administration Division Controller's Department

9:00 – 12:00
With coffee

• Elective 14
  Financing Water for All
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Wouter Lincklaen-Arriens Lead Water Resources Management Specialist Energy, Transport and Water Division, Regional and Sustainable Development Department Presentation [ PDF: 442kb | 28 pages ] Amy S.P. Leung Director Social Sectors Division Michael Barrow Director Infrastructure Finance Division Private Sectors Operations Department

• Elective 15
  Legal Matters
  
  

  Principal Resource Persons:

  Eveline Fischer Deputy General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel Cheong Ann Png Counsel Office of the General Counsel Donald Kidd Principal Counsel Office of the General Counsel

  
  
  
• Elective 16
  ADF Currency Management and SDR Conversion Option
  
  

  Principal Resource Person:

  Im-Em Unkavanich Senior Treasury Specialist, Financial Policy and Planning Division, Treasury Department Presentation [ PDF: 1,690kb | 101 pages ]

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 4:30
With coffee

Preparation of presentations to Regional Director Generals

9:00 – 11:00

Central & West Asia
Afghanistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic,
Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Juan Miranda
Director General, Central & West Asia Department

11:00 – 12:30

East Asia
People's Republic of China, Mongolia

Edgar Cua
Advisor East Asia Department

Kunhamboo Kannan
Director Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Division

Naomi Chakwin
Director Regional Cooperation, Governance and Finance Division

Amy S.P. Leung
Director Social Sectors Division

Chwoon Sam Chin
Head, PAU Transport Division

12:30 – 2:30

Lunch

2:30 – 4:30

Pacific
Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia,
Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu

Sirpa Jarvenpaa
Director Pacific Department

Cai Li
Infrastructure Specialist Pacific Department

Nakamitsu Kiyoshi
Education Specialist Pacific Department

Craig Sugden
Country Economist Pacific Department

9:00 – 11:00

Southeast Asia
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic,
Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam

Arjun Thapan
Director General, Southeast Asia Department

Mohammed Parvez Imdad
Operations and Administration Specialist,
Country Coordination and Regional Cooperation Division,
Southeast Asia Department

11:00 – 12:30

South Asia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka

Kunio Senga
Director General, South Asia Department

Sunniya Jamal-Juyani
Economist Office of the Director General

Thevakumar Kandiah
Director Energy Division, South Asia Department

Frederick Roche
Director Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Social Services Division
South Asia Department

Bruno Carrasco
Director Country Coordination and Regional Cooperation Division
South Asia Department

Hideaki Iwasaki
Senior Transport Specialist, Transport and Communications Division,
South Asia Department

Hun Kim
Director Urban Development Division South Asia Department

Ashok Sharma
Director Governance, Finance and Trade Division,
South Asia Department

12:00 – 2:30

Lunch

2:30 – 2:55

Summary and wrap-up

2:55 - 3:00

Introduction of Mr. Bindu Lohani,
Vice President, Finance and Administration

H.J. Yu
Director, Human Resources Division

3:00 – 3:30

Awarding of Certificates

Bindu Lohani
Vice President, Finance & Administration

3:30 – 4:15

Responses from DMC Officials

Pacific Representative – Luke Koroisere (FIJ)

South Asia Representative – Krishna Bohara (NEP)

Southeast Asia Representative - Mary Anne Z. Dela Vega (PHI)

Central & West Asia Representative – Amanullah Khan Naizi (Pakistan)

East Asia Representative – Jie Yang (PRC)

4:15 - 4:45

Closing Statement

Bindu Lohani
Vice President, Finance & Administration

4:45 - 5:00

Group Photo with the Vice President

5:30

Farewell Cocktails (Executive Dining Room)