Lao People's Democratic Republic: Validation of Country Partnership Strategy Final Review, 2012–2016

This report validates the country partnership strategy final review for Lao People's Democratic Republic country partnership strategy for 2012‚Äì2016 and assesses the quality of the self-evaluation and identifies lessons and recommendations to inform the new CPS.

New Guidelines for the Evaluation of Public Sector Operations published by the Independent Evaluation Department, AsDB

The guidelines focus on the four core and three non-core assessments to be undertaken for projects by both self- and independent evaluations within ADB. They are also effective for IED evaluations and validations initiated from 1 May 2016 onwards. Evaluations and validations that are at advanced stage may still be completed using the old guidelines.