NEWS & EVENTS

On Friday, November 16, 2018 the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies hosted a discussion with the Asian Development Bank – ADB’s Mr. Ding Ding Tang, Compliance Review Panel Chairman, Mr. Warren Evan, Special Project Facilitator, and Ms. Sushma Kotagiri, Senior Facilitation Specialist.

Titled “Improving Development Effectiveness in Asia: Lessons from the Asian Development Bank’s Accountability Mechanism,” they gave an overview of the ADB’s accountability mechanisms, and discussed some of the lessons they learned from recent compliance review and problem solving cases. Their discussion focused on the development of capacity in financial intermediaries and the strengthening of grievance redress mechanisms in order to improve the ADB’s development effectiveness on projects it finances in Asia and the Pacific.