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Gender in

ADB Organizational Structureand Operations

11th Session of the External Forum onGender and Development (EFG)

27-29 June 2011, Room 4204N, ADB HQ, Manila

Sonomi TanakaPrincipal Social Development Specialist (Gender & Development)

Regional and Sustainable Development Department Asian Development Bank

The views expressed in this paper are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB), or its Board of Governors, or the governments they represent. ADB does not guarantee the accuracy

of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. The countries listed in thispaper do not imply any view on ADB's part as to sovereignty or independent status or necessarily conform to ADB'sterminology.



Outline

• Gender Architecture in GAD Policy

– GAD Expertise in Organization

– EFG – GAD Cooperation Fund

• ADB Operations and GAD

– Types of financing – Country strategy and project cycle



GAD Expertise in ADB

Central & West Asia

HQ (2)

ResidentMissions (RMs)

AFG GEOKGZ PAKKAZ TAJUZB*

East Asia

HQ (0)

PacificHQ (1)

South Asia

HQ (1)

Southeast

AsiaHQ (1)

MON

N/A

BAN*NEP*INDSRI*

CAM

INOLAOVIE*

• Sector

• Projectprocessing

• Advisory

• Knowledge

• Reporting

ExternalForum onGender

and Dev’t.

Gender Equity

Committee of CoP

GAD Fund Committee

Recommend

to

ADBManagement

RSDD

(3)

• Country• Projectadministration

* are nat’l staff

Communityof Practice

(CoP)

Other CoP Members

•Divisional GAD FocalPoints

• Staff interested inGAD

Senior Advisor(Gender),VPO2



External Forum on GAD

• Established in 2001

• Members on average 8-10, now 7

• TOR

– Facilitate dialogue b/w ADB and external GADexperts and advocates

– Advise ADB Management on effectiveimplementation of GAD Policy

– Share external good practice

• Influenced critical moments



GAD Cooperation Fund (GDCF)

• Established in 2003• $13 million- AUS, CAN, DEN, IRE, NOR

• ADB $3 million additional

• Mostly committed• “Leverage fund”

– Supports only activities that leverage core

ADB GAD operations (influenced 120 projectstotaling $6.5B)

• Difficult replenishment



Key GDCF Accomplishments 2010 (1)

(i) Country Partnership Strategies

• Support to “Joint” Country Gender Assessments inNepal and Lao PDR

(ii) Project Processing (assisting new loans)

• PHI Gender in Social Protection (grant component)• PRC Yunnan ethnic women road maintenance

• TIM Gender and community participation in watersupply

(iii) Project Implementation

• 9 projects (water, law, health, rural dev’t)

• Example: PHI Supporting Governance in JusticeReform (video)

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Key GDCF Accomplishments 2010 (2)

(iv) Policy Dialogues and Reforms

• Example: MON Gender Equality Law

(v) DMC Capacity Development

• NEP EA/IA in Selected Sectors of ADB operations

• BAN Disaster Damage Rehabilitation

(vi) Knowledge and Partnerships

• Central Asia Rural Women’s Entrepreneurship

• South Asia Good Practice Case Studies

• PHI Gender, Slum Poverty and Climate Change

• Women and Labor Market – ADB/ILO Joint Work

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Core ADB Projects

A. Sovereign or sovereign guaranteed – Loans

• Ordinary Capital Resources (OCR) – hard loans

• Asian Development Fund (ADF) – soft loans

– ADF grantsB. Non-sovereign investments

– Equity investments in an institution or enterprise

– Loans and other debt instruments (bonds)

– Guarantees (credit guarantees, political risk guarantees) of loans and other debt obligations

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OCR and ADF - Modalities

• Investment projects – Plain

– Sector projects

• Program/policy-based loans/grants

• Sector development program

• Multitranche financing facility (MFF)



• ADB TASF - Technical Assistance SpecialFund (own funding)• Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction

– (a) JFPR for TA grants (replacing previousJapan Special Fund)

– (b) JFPR for project grants

• External Sources – bilateral,multilateral or private sector sources forindividual projects

• Thematic Multidonor Trust Funds(Gender, Water, Environment, ClimateChange/Clean Energy, HIV/AIDS )

Technical Assistance Grantand Sources

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ADB Country

Partnership

Strategy &Project Cycle

1. CPS (directions) informingCOBP (pipeline)

2. Project concept

paper approval

3. Project preparation

(with or without TA)

4. Project fact findingmission & agreement

with Exec Agency

11. Project review

missions including mid-term review & reporting

8. Project signing by EA

5. Circulation of RRP

and discuss in ADB

13. Project evaluation

10. Projectimplementation

12. Project completion

7. Project approval by

ADB Board

6. Loan/grant negotiation9. Project effectiveness

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Two basic activities of country-basedstrategic planning and programming:

• Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for

each DMC every 5 years

• Country Operations Business Plan (COBP)- A brief annual update of the CPS that

includes operational program for the next3 years, identifies specific lending andnon-lending operations for processing.

Country Partnership Strategy andProgramming

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• Project concept stage – Project Concept Paper

• Project preparation/design – with or without TA• Project processing and approval – “Report and

Recommendations of the President (RRP)”

• Project effectiveness

• Project implementation – Review Mission Reports

• Project completion – Project Completion Report

• Evaluation – Project completion evaluation

– Post completion evaluation

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Project Approval, Implementation, andCompletion



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