Integrating Innovative Knowledge Solutions with Public Sector Management Operations (ADB-59314-001)

Regions
  • East Asia and Pacific
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • South Asia
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Specific Location
Asia and Pacific region
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Financial Institutions
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Project Status
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
U
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Voting Date
Oct 22, 2025
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Borrower
Regional - Asian Development Bank
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Sectors
  • Law and Government
  • Technical Cooperation
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 0.50 million
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Project Cost (USD)
$ 0.50 million
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Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ ADB website

Updated in EWS Mar 28, 2026

Disclosed by Bank Oct 22, 2025

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Project Description
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According to the Bank’s website, the technical assistance (TA) is designed to strategically deliver knowledge solutions that address development challenges, opportunities and emerging areas in the public sector management and governance (PSMG) sector across the Asia and Pacific region. The TA will (i) scope and design strategic and operational approaches that strengthen the impact of PSMG reforms in ADB's developing member countries (DMCs); (ii) deliver knowledge products and solutions that address country-specific and regional PSMG challenges, opportunities and institutional capacity development needs; and (iii) identify, prioritize and integrate emerging areas into ADB's sovereign lending operations through targeted knowledge products, policy dialogue, and capacity building. The TA will also support the conduct of governance and macro-fiscal diagnostic assessments (called GMaPs or governance and macro-fiscal pillars assessments) to identify PSMG development gaps and weaknesses in ADB's DMCs, which will inform the delivery of impactful reforms in the PSMG sector.

Strategy 2030 provides that ADB will help DMCs improve governance and create an enabling environment for sustainable growth by strengthening the quality and capacity of public institutions to undertake policy reforms and promote private sector development. It further provides that ADB will support reforms in a range of PSMG areas through policy-based lending (PBL) and technical assistance (TA), among others. The midterm review of Strategy 2030 stresses the need for ADB to continue emphasizing support for public financial management (PFM), domestic resource mobilization (DRM), strategic development planning, public debt management, and fiscal sustainability and resilience, among others, to ensure that DMCs' fiscal pressures are effectively managed. It also calls for broader upstream and midstream support for private sector development, including through sustained business and investment climate reforms.

The focus on fiscal sustainability and resilience and a more strategic approach to upstream and midstream reforms highlight the importance of continued investments in PSMG knowledge products and capacity development approaches that balance international best practices with regional and country contexts. These also reflect the importance of producing knowledge solutions and country diagnostics that effectively inform the design of ADB's strategic and operational approaches, as well as solutions that proactively address emerging PSMG challenges, opportunities and trends in Asia and the Pacific.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
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According to the Technical Assistance Report, the Risk Categories are:

Environment: Not Applicable
Involuntary Resettlement: Not Applicable
Indigenous Peoples: Not Applicable

Investment Description
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The TA financing amount is $500,000, which will be financed on a grant basis by ADB’s Technical Assistance Special Fund (TASF-other sources).


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Project Officer: Jose Luis C. Syquia
Designation: Principal Public Sector Specialist - Asian Development Bank
Email: jsyquia@adb.org

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