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This document outlines the Greater Mekong Subregion human resource development strategy.

A possible framework for the post-2015 development agenda should have well-being for all at its center and be founded on a results-based approach.

This fourth annual report on the development effectiveness of ADB’s private sector operations reviews how the Private Sector Operations Department has contributed to promoting ADB’s development effectiveness agenda.

The report takes stock of progress since 2008 and shows whether ADB met its 2012 targets for delivery of outputs and outcomes, and improving operational and organizational effectiveness. The review found that the development effectiveness review process introduced in 2008 has successfully propagated a results culture across ADB.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) corporate results framework is a management tool that helps ADB monitor and improve its performance to achieve the long-term development goals set out in Strategy 2020.

This operational plan identifies a number of actions to mainstream fragility- and conflict-sensitive approaches in Asian Development Bank's (ADB) country strategies and operations to achieve its overall goal of improved development progress and strengthened institutions in developing member countries experiencing fragility and the effects of conflict.

This flyer summarizes ADB’s experiences in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS), highlighting flexibility, sustainability, and partnership as guiding principles for working in such difficult situations.

This policy paper (R-paper) describes the proposed piloting of results-based lending (RBL) for programs modality.

This development effectiveness brief presents how ADB's operations in the Maldives has helped it progress from the United Nations’ Least Developed Country designation to Middle Income Country status as of January 2011. It also presents the future challenges ADB and its partners face in pursuing agreed development goals in the country.

In January 2012, ADB began a review of its results framework to ensure its continued relevance as a corporate performance management tool. This paper proposes changes to the structure, indicators, and targets of the results framework.