Jakarta: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a new Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations and Small Island Developing States Approach (FSA) to guide its support for its most vulnerable developing member countries (DMCs).
The Approach introduces flexible processes and procedures that will allow ADB to tailor interventions to the specific challenges of fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS) and small island developing states (SIDS), with the goal of improving project results.
"The FSA will change the way ADB designs, implements, and monitors projects in its most fragile DMCs," said ADB Advisor for FCAS Samuel Tumiwa in a press release on Tuesday.
"This will be done by expanding training for staff to work more effectively in these countries and through the introduction of tools such as fragility and resilience assessments that will provide project planners and country teams with a comprehensive overview of risks and factors that affect resilience, such as climate change, weak governance, and conflict," Tumiwa stated.
Countries are classified as FCAS based on an assessment of the quality of macroeconomic management, coherence of structural policies, the degree to which policies and institutions promote equity and inclusion, quality of governance and public sector management, and performance of concessional assistance project portfolio.
ADB classifies 11 countries as FCAS: Afghanistan, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, and Tuvalu.
Sixteen ADB DMCs identify themselves as SIDS: the Cook Islands, the FSM, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
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