The government requested the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) support for the PNPM Mandiri scheme to further upgrade basic rural infrastructure in poor villages and promote community-driven sanitation development.

The Second Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Program (the program) comprised two subprograms: Subprogram 1—implemented from December 2010 to July 2011, and Subprogram 2—implemented from November 2013 to June 2014. The program was designed to assist the government’s implementation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development policies in partnership with the Asian Development Bank.

This book offers guidance on the principles, methods, and practice of impact evaluation. It contains material for a range of audiences, from those who may use or manage impact evaluations to applied researchers.

The Program was to provide the resources, the flexibility, and an improved implementation framework to achieve the government’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets more quickly. The program supported the achievement of the MDG targets 1 to 6 on poverty reduction, heath, education, and gender equality.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided in 2007 a project preparatory technical assistance to prepare the Thanh Hoa City Comprehensive Socioeconomic Development Project. In 2009, the ADB Board of Directors approved a 32-year, $72 million equivalent Asian Development Fund loan and a $2 million Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) grant to the Government of Viet Nam to implement the $117.9 million project to contribute to sustainable socioeconomic development of Thanh Hoa through a multisector project.

In October 2009, the government requested the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for support to facilitate an affordable and sustainable water and sewerage service.The Water Sector Improvement Program was subsequently discussed and agreed in May 2010. The policy-based lending modality of ADB was used to align with the government’s urgent development needs.

The 2018 Annual Evaluation Review (AER) adds new perspectives to the development effectiveness discussion in two areas. First, it introduces a new section on ADB’s development results by distilling key findings from its high-level evaluations to analyze changes that have taken place due to ADB’s interventions, particularly achievements in the institution’s strategic agendas, drivers of growth, and country programs.

The learning event, Advancing South–South Knowledge Sharing in Asia, will be held on 4 July 2018 in Seoul, Republic of Korea, to enhance and and broaden knowledge sharing on sources of development in Asia and the Pacific.

The 2018 Evaluation Week will be held on 10–14 September in Chengdu, People's Republic of China with theme, "Making Evaluation Work at the Country Level."