Contract Management: Guidance Note on Procurement

Contract management encompasses three stages: preparation and planning activities prior to contract award, contract administration during contract implementation, and contract closure.

Fostering Regional Cooperation and Integration for Recovery and Resilience: Guidance Note

The coronavirus disease or COVID-19 has brought countries together to mitigate its spread and cushion its adverse consequences. Regional cooperation will be perhaps even more important in building an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable economic revival. This guidance note advocates wider, deeper, and more open regional cooperation and integration. Cooperation can be widened to include regional health security, trade in information and communication technology-enabled services, and financial safety nets, for example. It can be deepened to reach more stakeholders and sectors. It can also become more open through flexible collaboration and greater sharing of knowledge and expertise.

Sustainable Public Procurement: Guidance Note on Procurement

This guidance note aims to assist ADB staff and borrowers (including grant recipients) on how to incorporate aspects of sustainability in the public procurement process.

Procurement Risk Framework: Guidance Note on Procurement

This guidance note describes ADB’s procurement risk framework for managing procurement risk throughout the procurement cycle. Effective risk management minimizes impacts on project objectives from adverse events. The guidance note describes how risks are identified, assessed, and managed at the country and sector/agency levels, and how those risks are used as inputs into the identification, assessment, and management of risk at the project level during procurement planning and through contract implementation.

Detailed Guidance for Issuing Green Bonds in Developing Countries

This guidance note aims to help bond issuers and their advisors to understand the process and key considerations for a successful green bond issuance. Demand for green bonds and other sustainable finance products is increasing rapidly, and issuers are seeing an opportunity to be part of the green bond market. This publication covers all the steps required to follow best practices in labeling bonds as green. It includes examples, links to further details, and key resources for green bond issuers and their deal teams.

COVID-19 and the Finance Sector in Asia and the Pacific: Guidance Note

This publication highlights short-term actions that can mitigate pressures and medium-term policy considerations for finance sector resilience in the post-COVID-19 period.

Value for Money: Guidance Note on Procurement

This guidance note discusses the principle of value for money (VFM) and its relevance and application to the different phases of the ADB procurement cycle. It also introduces “life cycle costing,” which takes into account not only the acquisition cost, but also a combination of paid price plus the cost of operating and maintaining the goods or services procured. The guidance note provides a matrix of the relationship of VFM with other ADB core procurement principles to give a better understanding of how VFM works with the other principles.

Strategic Procurement Planning: Guidance Note on Procurement

This guidance note aims to assist borrowers in developing a procurement strategy and procurement plan for projects financed in whole or in part by an ADB loan or grant, or by ADB-administered funds. Effective and strategic procurement planning helps ensure that fit-for-purpose procurement approaches are developed to achieve value for money and the project’s development objectives. The note enables borrowers to take a flexible approach to developing a procurement strategy and procurement plan, applying tools and techniques widely used across public and private sector organizations to provide the necessary intelligence to make sound procurement decisions.

Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Guidance Note: Addressing Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Urban Sanitation Projects

This guidance note underscores why addressing gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) is fundamental to the success of citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) project success. Equity and inclusion is one of the four elements of CWIS. As such, CWIS projects need activities to target specific unserved and underserved groups, including women and children, ethnic minorities, the urban poor, and persons with disabilities. This guidance note is part of a series that aims to share essential knowledge to embed CWIS principles in planning and delivering sanitation services to ADB developing member countries. These learning materials were prepared by ADB’s Water Sector Group and structured along the ADB project processing cycle.