Validates the completion report’s assessment of the project aimed to strengthen institutional capacity to ensure the delivery of basic skills training relevant to market needs and commensurate with the capacity of beneficiaries, increase access to basic skills training by expanding TVET and rehabilitating and establishing facilities, improve the quality of basic skills training by strengthening links with the private sector, and promote the use of basic skills by developing employment guidance and job placement services. IED overall assessment: Partly Successful.

This study evaluates the impact of two ADB-funded rural electrification projects in Bhutan.

On 18 October 2010, the Director General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank received this response from the Managing Director General on behalf of Management on the Asian Development Bank's Assistance for Rural Electrification in Bhutan: Does Electrification Improve Quality of Rural Life?

On 13 September 2010, the Director General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank received this response from the Managing Director General on behalf of Management on the Sector Assistance Program Evaluation for Bhutan Energy Sector.