Regional and Sustainable Development Department

Key Result Areas

RSDD's Key Result Areas (KRAs) represent areas in which it plans and delivers concrete and tangible outputs.

The KRAs emerge from RSDD's mission and mandate to

• support quality and compliance in ADB operations
• provide knowledge support
• create innovation services

See RSDD's Key Accomplishments in 2007. [ PDF: 49kb | 8 pages]

Key Result Area 1: Support Quality and Compliance in ADB Operations

Objectives:

• Provide upstream operational support to operations departments (ODs) for Country Strategy Programs (CSPs) and complex projects (e.g. sectoral and thematic assessments) through technical, strategic, and knowledge contributions
• Rationalize policies and strategies
• Support due diligence and compliance responsibilities for projects
• Support project implementation on a selective basis

Targeted Outputs:

• Technical contributions in the field in operations as agreed with each operations department (these include CSPs and project processing, with particular focus on complex and challenging projects)
• Technical contributions through document reviews
• Operational support and compliance reviews for the safeguard policies
• Rationalized policies and strategies
• Due diligence reviews

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Key Result Area 2: Knowledge Support

Objectives:

• Promote knowledge development and knowledge sharing within ADB and the region
• Act as focal point for specific sectors and themes under RSDD purview with respect to staffing competencies, training, and external relations based on the advice of Communities of Practice
• Anchor sector/thematic committees and networks

Target Outputs:

• Knowledge products for ADB, DMCs and the region such as issues papers, briefing and technical notes, good practice documentation, publications and flagship reports
• Sector and thematic regional databases
• Support from the KM Help Desk on sector/thematic issues
• Retrospective and annual reports for selected sector and thematic areas
• ADB-wide knowledge management systems and processes
• Links with regional and international institutions for the concerned sector/thematic area

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Key Result Area 3: Innovation Services

Objectives:

• Ensure ADB is at the forefront of key development issues in sectors and themes under RSDD purview
• Create new business concepts and development approaches for ADB in its work with DMCs and with development partners.

Targeted Outputs:

1. New instruments, modalities, and product structures.
2. Assistance to ODs in applying these new modalities including pilot testing.
3. Technical work on selected Asia-wide development issues and themes to advance innovative development thinking in the region.
4. New business opportunities for ADB, assessment of their potential, and assistance for mainstreaming them into ODs' operations.