Regional : Strengthening the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office
Project Details
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Project Officer
Schipani, Steven M.
Southeast Asia Department
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Sector
- Industry and trade
| Project Name | Strengthening the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office | ||||
| Project Number | 44300-012 | ||||
| Country / Economy | Regional |
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| Project Status | Closed | ||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Strategic Agendas | Inclusive economic growth Regional integration |
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| Drivers of Change | Governance and capacity development Knowledge solutions |
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| Sector / Subsector | Industry and trade / Trade and services |
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| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | |||||
| Impact | Successful implementation of the GMS Tourism Sector Strategy. | ||||
| Project Outcome | |
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| Description of Outcome | MTCO effectively performs its key functions as GMS TWG Secretariat. |
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| Description of Project Outputs | 1. MTCO's vision and purpose, structure of governance, roles and responsibilities, staffing and reporting, and planning, administration and finance procedures documented and agreed. 2. Functional web-based GMS tourism knowledge management platform established. 3. TWG-endorsed Explore Mekong regional marketing strategy and action plan is launched. |
| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | The GMS national devlopment coordination specialist was engaged by ADB on 24 Mach 2014. The detailed TA work program is being prepared in consultation with the GMS Tourism Workign Group. A working draft of the MTCO Operations Plan and upated Explore Mekong Marketing Strategy will be tabled for discussion at the 34th Meeting of the GMS Tourism Working Group in November 2014. |
| Geographical Location | Regional |
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| Business Opportunities | |
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| Consulting Services | 2 international consultants (a institutional development and knowledge management - 4 person-month and a tourism marketing specialist (3 person-month) 1 national consultant from GMD countries (15 person-month) will be intermittently engaged. |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Schipani, Steven M. |
| Responsible ADB Department | Southeast Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Thailand Resident Mission |
| Executing Agencies |
Asian Development Bank 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City 1550, Philippines |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Fact Finding | - |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 29 Sep 2014 |
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 22 Oct 2013 | - | 22 Oct 2013 | 30 Jun 2015 | 30 Jun 2016 | 01 Sep 2016 |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 225,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 225,000.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 185,023.40 |
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| Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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| Strengthening the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office: Technical Assistance Completion Report | TA Completion Reports | Apr 2017 |
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