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Strengthening Country Diagnosis and Analysis of Binding Development Constraints in Selected DMCs
Technical Assistance Project

Commitments under the Paris Declaration require development agencies to align their assistance programs with partner countries' national development plans and priorities so as to achieve greater aid effectiveness. The commitments also call for supporting the development of partner countries’ capacity to plan, implement, and account for results of development policies and programs. As a signatory to the Paris Declaration, ADB has undertaken a number of initiatives to transform its relationship with DMCs and reorient the business process to ensure that its assistance strategies and operations are aligned with DMCs' own development plans and poverty reduction strategies. The revised ADB Country Partnership Strategy process recognizes that DMCs may need ADB assistance in strengthening their planning processes and capabilities for undertaking underlying diagnostic and analytical assessments.

To strengthen DMCs’ capability for diagnosing and analyzing binding development constraints, ADB approved Strengthening Country Diagnosis and Analysis of Binding Development Constraints in Selected Developing Member Countries Project, a regional technical assistance, for the amount of $650,000 on 26 April 2007. The project is expected to enhance the development impacts of the DMCs’ own interventions and ADB’s lending and nonlending operations in the DMCs. The envisaged outcome is enhanced DMC capacity to undertake development diagnostic studies and formulate development plans or poverty reduction strategies targeting the binding constraints. The project will undertake country-specific diagnostic studies in four DMCs. DMCs to be studied in the first stage, the Philippines and Tajikistan, have been selected in close consultation with the regional departments. DMCs for the second stage will also be selected in close consultation with the regional departments and keeping in view the DMCs’ needs.