This evaluation of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) support for gender and development (GAD) examined the relevance and results of ADB's gender priorities at the corporate, country, and project levels during 2005–2015.

ADB's Independent Evaluation Department will host Caught in a Trap? Asia and the Pacific's Middle-Income Countries at a Crossroads - a learning event on 21 June 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Full details are available in the ECG calendar or on the ADB website.

IEG has just published a synthesis of existing evaluations which seeks to draw lessons from key IEG evaluations of World Bank Group support for strengthening client country response and resilience to systemic shocks. The synthesis seeks to draw lessons from key IEG evaluations of World Bank Group support for strengthening client country response and resilience to systemic shocks.

Georgia became a member of ADB in 2007. The Municipal Services Development Project, approved in September 2008, was the first Asian Development Bank operation in the country. A year after project approval, at the government’s request, ADB approved the Phase 2 in 2009, to provide additional financing to rehabilitate poorly maintained infrastructure due to lack of investment and maintenance post-independence from the Soviet Union.