The technical assistance (TA) aimed to assist developing member countries (DMCs) to introduce essential innovations, promising technologies, and new business and partnership approaches in the agriculture, natural resources, and rural development (ANR) sector. These strategies were intended to accelerate the implementation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Operational Plan for ANR: Promoting Sustainable Food Security in Asia and the Pacific in 2015–2020.
IED's overall assessment is less than successful.