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Managing for Development Results

INFOCUS ADB manages our work to ensure that operationscontribute to development and reduce poverty

Providing the right development aid is not only

about the size o the loan or the number o roads

or schools built. It is about knowing the loan is

improving peoples lives. It is about ensuring that

the road is designed to move people in the best

direction, and that the school educates children

with skills to support a countrys economic uture.

ADB serves people, and we need to be accountableto them by measuring and reporting our delivery

perormance as promised.

Using a new tool toimprove our perormance

ADB became the frst multilateral development bank

to adopt a corporate-wide results management

ramework. The new ramework, driven by our

Strategy 2020, uses perormance indicators and

targets. These help us review the state o the region

and assess our contribution to development and

operational and organizational eectiveness.The ramework allows managers to answer three

key questions:

1. Are we being eective?

2. How do we know we are?

3. How do we use this inormation or uture action?

Challenge Despite rapid economic growth in Asia and the Pacifc, millions remain poor. Given our limited resources,how can ADB help reduce poverty in the region?

Strategy ADB operates with increased ocus on development results, and helps our member countries build their owncapacity or gaining results.

Response ADB comprehensively monitors delivery o our planned development results and identifes perormanceweaknesses and actions or improvement. We support country capacity-building and knowledge-sharinginitiatives. Countries can then better manage their development programs. We are teaming with ourdevelopment partners to increasingly coordinate and share knowledge about managing or results.

Managing for results is not new to ADB. We are now measuring our performancemore systematically to show how we contribute to the regions development.

Noriko Ogawa, Head, Results Management Unit

Inspiring a results-driven culture, the ramework

ocuses on areas ADB and our shareholders

consider important. To assess and report on our

perormance in achieving desired corporate-wide

results, ADB now uses an annual perormance

reportthe Development Eectiveness Review. The

review identifes perormance issues and actions or

resolving them based on our levels.

Level 1: Whats happening in Asia and the Pacifc?

We begin by tracking progress in the region based on

selected development areas. These include poverty

and human development, gross domestic product

per capita, regional cooperation and integration,

access to basic inrastructure, governance, and

environment.

Level 2: How has ADB contributed to development?

Next, we assess our contribution to country and

regional development by checking i our operations

have helped achieve specifc development goals.

Level 3: How eectively is ADB managingits operations?

We then look at operational-eectiveness indicators,

such as operational quality and portolio

ADBs Strategy 2020meeting the needs o Asiaand the Pacifc

Strategic Direction Inclusive Economic Growth

EnvironmentallySustainable Growth

Regional Integration

Drivers o ChangePrivate Sector

Good Governance

Gender Equity

Knowledge Solutions

Partnerships

Read more at

www.adb.org/Strategy2020/

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ADB Focal Point

Noriko Ogawa

Strategy and Policy Department

www.adb.org/MDR/

For inquiries, contact

ADB Media Center

mediacenter@adb.org

Tel +63 2 632 5090

perormance, fnance mobilization, strategic ocusin operations, knowledge development, and

partnerships.

Level 4: How is ADB improving as an organization?

Finally, we measure our progress in increasing

eectiveness in three key areas: use o human

resources, use o budgetary resources, and business

processes and practices.

Putting the results o our reviewto immediate use

Our frst-ever Development Eectiveness Reviewor

2007ound that Asia and the Pacifc economies

continue to quickly grow and reduce poverty. Yet,

the region still struggles to meet some o its human

development targets.

As or our contribution, ADB has helped deliver

development resultsmore jobs, increased

incomes, better access to health and education,

improved living environment, and better policies and

institutions. ADBs operational quality is improving,

and the organization is becoming more efcient. The

review, however, also reveals areas to improve and

spells out steps to take.ADB Management is already benefting rom the

fndingsensuring that department, ofce, and

division actions become ully aligned with strategic

priorities and responsive to issues the review revealed.

The review enables ADBs managers to reer

to results data, and issues and lessons beore

deciding their next steps. This frst review is only the

beginning.

Visit ADBs Online Resource Center on Managing or Development Results (MDR)(www.adb.org/mdr/resources)

The MDR Resource Center can help you better understand managing or development results concepts and processes. There you will fndexamples o MDR applications at the country, sector, institutional, and project levels. You will also fnd valuable MDR tools and casestudies. Plus, you may access hundreds o documents and fles related to MDR that can help in your practice.

Helping countries manage ordevelopment results

ADB also helps increase country capacity or results

management with unding to

introduce results-based planning, budgeting, and

monitoring techniques;

improve methods or measuring, monitoring, and

managing or results;

prepare results-oriented national development

plans and strategies, sector plans, and road

maps; and

train country ofcials and enable their

participation in international managing or

development results events.

The Managing or Development Results

Cooperation Fund has fnanced a number o these

initiatives. Canada, the Netherlands, and Norway

contributed to this $2.9 million multidonor und.

Supporting communities o practice toincrease results management capacity

ADB is also working to increase results management

capacity in our member countries by promoting

learning and knowledge exchange throughcommunities o practice.

These inormal networks oster exchange

between public managers, organizations, executing

agencies, and practitioners or managing better or

development results. The networks disseminate

good practices; assist with problem solving; and

oer learning opportunities, products, tools, and

support services.

Communities o practice also create an ever-

increasing, virtual knowledge base to help members

improve their understanding and skills, enabling them

to better respond to particular development needs.

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