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1 IED'S PROPOSED WORK PROGRAM FOR by Year of Approval by DG, IED IED's Proposed Work Program for 2011 (i) DERIVED PROGRAM: OPERATIONS Country Operations a 1 CAPE Uzbekistan 2 CAPE Kyrgyz Republic 1 CPS-FR Validation Report PRC 2 CPS-FR Validation Report Thailand 3 CPS-FR Validation Report Sri Lanka 4 CPS-FR Validation Report Maldives 5 CPS-FR Validation Report Kazakhstan 6 CPS-FR Validation Report Micronesia, Fed. States of 1 SAPE - Agriculture and Natural Resources in Kyrgyz Republic 2 SAPE - Transport in Kyrgyz Republic 3 SAPE - (TBD) Kyrgyz Republic 4 SAPE - Transport Sri Lanka NSO - PPERs SO - PPERs TPERs (for advisory TAs over $1.5 million) Annual Reports 1 Annual Evaluation Review and Acting on Recommendations Work Program and Budget 3 Annual Report on Portfolio Performance (ii) REAL-TIME FEEDBACK/CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT/OTHER REGULAR ACTIVITIES 1 Commenting on Asian Development Bank Documents and Participating in Management Review Meetings (over 400 documents) 2 Project Completion Report Validations (55) 3 Continuation of Learning Curves, Success Rates under KMU 4 Continued Upgrading of the Evaluation Website and its Features 5 RETA Preparation for Broader Evaluation Studies 6 Provision of Lecturers to SHIPDET - twice a year 7 ECG Activities and Part-Time Secretariat 8 Support Peer Review of Independent Evaluation Function by the ECG 9 Participate in the Evaluation Network of OECD-DAC Activities 10 Chair Evaluation Cooperation Group in Training and Evaluation Capacity Development a Subject to change based on actual program of regional departments Attachment

2 IED's Proposed Work Program for (iii) KNOWLEDGE PROGRAM Special Evaluation Studies 1 SES - Transport Sector in PDMCs 2 SES - Implementation of MfDR at ADB 3 SES - Support to Agriculture Value Chains Development for Inclusive Growth 4 SES - Paris Declaration Phase II 5 SES - Enabling Environment for Private Sector Development 6 SES - Sector-Wide Approach/Program-Based Approach in Education: Why Does Transaction Cost Matter and to Whom? 7 SES - ADF Operations (VIII, IX, X) 8 SES - Asian Development Bank Institute 9 SES - ADB Assistance for Financial Sector Reforms in DMCs 10 SES - Effectiveness of ADB's Operations in the Pacific: Study of Investments, Policies, Institutional, and Governance Reforms Impact Evaluation Studies 1 IE - Low-Income Housing Finance in Sri Lanka 2 IE - Vocational and Technical Education: Access to the Poor, Women, and Ethnic Minorities Real-Time Evaluations 1 RTE - ADB's Response to Economic Crisis Other Knowledge Products 1 Brief - Good Practices from Public Expenditure Management Assistance 2 Brief - Good Practices to be Considered for Project Designs with Multi-components, Multi-executing and/or Implementing Agencies 3 Brief - Evaluation of ADB's Renewable Energy Interventions for Inclusive Growth 4 Synthesis of Studies on Effectiveness of TA in Support of Environment Management 5 Guidelines- Improving Business Process for PCRVRs 6 Guidelines- Revision of performance evaluation report guidelines for both SO and NSO Stand-by for Further Consideration Depending on Budget Availability 1 SES - Loan Covenants and Development Effectiveness 2 SES Update - Sustainability of Policy Reforms through ADTA

3 IED'S PROPOSED WORK PROGRAM FOR by Year of Approval by DG, IED IED's Proposed Work Program for 2012 (i) DERIVED PROGRAM: OPERATIONS Country Operations a 1 CAPE Afghanistan 2 CAPE Samoa 3 CAPE Tonga 1 CPS - FR Validation Report Pakistan 2 CPS - FR Validation Report Cook Islands 3 CPS - FR Validation Report Nauru 4 CPS - FR Validation Report Tuvalu 1 SAPE - Energy in Pakistan SAPEs to feed into CAPEs NSO - PPERs 1 SO PPER Loan 1986-SRI: Road Sector Development Project SO - PPERs TPERs (for advisory TAs over $1.5 million) Annual Reports 1 Annual Evaluation Review and Acting on Recommendations Work Program and Budget 3 Annual Report on Portfolio Performance (ii) REAL-TIME FEEDBACK/CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT/OTHER REGULAR ACTIVITIES 1 Commenting on Asian Development Bank Documents and Participating in Management Review Meetings (over 400 documents) 2 Project Completion Report Validations (60) 3 Continuation of Learning Curves, Success Rates under KMU 4 Continued Upgrading of the Evaluation Website and its Features 5 RETA Preparation for Broader Evaluation Studies 6 Provision of Lecturers to SHIPDET - twice a year 7 ECG Activities and Part-Time Secretariat 8 Support Peer Review of Independent Evaluation Function by the ECG 9 Participate in the Evaluation Network of OECD-DAC Activities 10 Training and Evaluation Capacity Development a Subject to change based on actual program of regional departments 3

4 IED's Proposed Work Program for (iii) KNOWLEDGE PROGRAM Special Evaluation Studies 1 SES - Effectiveness of Emergency Assistance Policy and Action Plan 2 SES- Development Impact of Private Sector Operations 3 SES - Knowledge Management System and Products 4 SES - ADB's Achievement in Assisting its DMCs in Attaining their Millennium Development Goals 5 SES - Evaluation of Effectiveness of Program Loans 6 SES Social Protection Policy 7 SES -ADB's Microfinance Development Strategy (2000) and Related Operations 8 SES - Effectiveness on Capacity Building for Involuntary Resettlement and Indigenous People 9 SES - TA Support for Promoting PPPs in the Infrastructure Sector in India and in Other Selected Countries Impact Evaluation Studies 1 IE- Impact of Irrigation Investments on Agriculture 2 IE -TBD Real-Time Evaluations 1 RTE- Multi-tranche Financing Facility Other Knowledge Products 1 EKB - Regional Benefits of Regional Cooperation and Integration Projects Stand-by for Further Consideration Depending on Budget Availability 1 SES - Effectiveness of ADB's Assistance in Improving Road Safety 2 Guidelines - Evaluation of Regional Cooperation Programs 3 Update - Effectiveness of Assistance for Reform of Public Expenditure Management

5 IED'S PROPOSED WORK PROGRAM FOR by Year of Approval by DG, IED IED's Proposed Work Program for 2013 Strategic Agenda Drivers of Change Core Areas of Operations (i) DERIVED PROGRAM: OPERATIONS Country Operations a 1 CAPE Tajikistan 2 CAPE TBD 1 RCAPE - Central Asia 1 CPS - FR Validation Report India 2 CPS - FR Validation Report Cambodia SAPEs determined by CAPEs RSAPEs determined by RCAPEs NSO - PPERs SO - PPERs TPERs (for advisory TAs over $1.5 million) Annual Reports 1 Annual Evaluation Review and Acting on Recommendations Work Program and Budget 3 Annual Report on Portfolio Performance (ii) REAL-TIME FEEDBACK/CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT/OTHER REGULAR ACTIVITIES 1 Commenting on Asian Development Bank Documents and Participating in Management Review Meetings (over 400 documents) 2 Project Completion Report Validations (65) 3 Continuation of Learning Curves, Success Rates under KMU 4 Continued Upgrading of the Evaluation Website and its Features 5 RETA Preparation for Broader Evaluation Studies 6 Provision of Lecturers to SHIPDET - twice a year 7 ECG Activities and Part-Time Secretariat 8 Support Peer Review of Independent Evaluation Function by the ECG 9 Participate in the Evaluation Network of OECD-DAC Activities 10 Training and Evaluation Capacity Development a Subject to change based on actual program of regional departments 5

6 IED's Proposed Work Program for (iii) KNOWLEDGE PROGRAM Special Evaluation Studies 1 SES - Safeguards Implementation (inclusive of Country Systems) 2 SES - Role of Mass Transit in Environmentally Sustainable Transport 3 SES - Effectiveness of ADB's Corporate Risk Management 4 SES - Evaluation of Public Communication Policy 5 SES- Post-Completion Sustainability of ADB Assisted Operations in the Transport Sector 6 SES - Review of the Streamlined Business Processes at ADB 7 SES - ADB's Co-financing Operations 8 SES- Project Financial Management-Managing Fiduciary Risk Impact Evaluation Studies IEs-TBD Real-Time Evaluations 1 RTE - PHI Social Protection Support to the Poor (Conditional Cash Transfer Program) Other Knowledge Products 1 Brief - Factors Affecting the Incorporation of Lessons in New Operations Briefs-TBD 4 Sector Summation Series - Urban Services 5 Sector Summation Series - Water Resources Management Stand-by for Further Consideration Depending on Budget Availability 1 SAPE- Urban Sector Nepal 2 RTE- Ongoing Regional Gender Projects in the Pacific

7 ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank ADF Asian Development Fund ADTA advisory technical assistance CAPE country assistance program evaluation CPS country partnership strategy CPS-FR country partnership strategy final review DEC Development Effectiveness Committee DMC developing member country ECG Evaluation Cooperation Group EKB Evaluation Knowledge Brief IE impact evaluation IED Independent Evaluation Department KMU Knowledge Management Unit MfDR Managing for Development Results NSO nonsovereign operations OECD-DAC Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -Development Assistance Committee PCRVR project completion report validation report PDMC developing member country in the Pacific region PHI Philippines PPER project/program performance evaluation report PPP public-private partnership PRC People's Republic of China RCAPE regional cooperation assistance program evaluation RETA regional technical assistance RSAPE regional sector assistance program evaluation RTE real-time evaluation SAPE sector assistance program evaluation SES special evaluation study SHIPDET Shanghai International Program for Development Evaluation Training SO sovereign operations SRI Sri Lanka TA technical assistance TBD to be determined TPER technical assistance performance evaluation report WP Work Program 7

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