Category 5. Country-Specific Analysis and Strategy Papers
Section 5.A. Country Analysis
Indicator 5.A.v. Other country-specific analysis
5.A.v. Other country-specific analysis
| Indicator |
Information that feeds into the evaluation and redrafting of country strategies. |
| Recommended Standard |
Other country-specific information not covered above that feeds into the evaluation and drafting of country strategies should be disclosed. |
1758
"The country classification determines the access to ADB’s concessional finance window and has implications for cost sharing in project and technical assistance financing." This document is disclosed after Board approval and is made available to the public, according to paragraph 110 of the ADB Public Communications Policy (March 2005).
1759
They review the country’s economic condition and performance. CERs are disclosed after Board circulation.
| Reference | Confidentiality and Disclosure of Information: Examples of Unclassified and Declassified Documents (http://www.adb.org/Disclosure/disclosurematrix.pdf) |
| Examples | "Country Economic Review" search of ADB's Publications webpage (http://www.adb.org/scripts/rwisapi.dll/@adb.env) |
| Sector | Private and Public |
| Languages | English |
| Location | On-line and from the office of external relations, representative offices in donor countries, resident missions in borrowing countries or publications unit for $10. |
| Last Updated | |
| Status Updated | 2/7/2005 |
1783
This document helps to identify environmental and social priorities, constraints and key actors.
1784
This document helps to identify environmental and social priorities, constraints and key actors.
1802
"Each of the Bank’s country and sector strategies will reflect the EBRD’s sustainability mandate and will contain a section which describes the environmental and social implications and opportunities of the EBRD’s proposed activities, including technical
co-operation projects. The strategies will summarise the principal environmental, human rights, gender equality and other social issues
in the relevant country/sector." "The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)/Social Impact Assessment (SIA) shall meet PR 10 and any applicable requirements of national EIA law and other relevant laws. In exceptional circumstances,
a regional, sectoral or strategic assessment
may be required."
1823
The EIB provides information on its lending by region and in some cases by country
1845
These documents are disclosed “after the Board of Executive Directors has reviewed them. When approval by the Board of Executive Directors of any of these documents is required, such document will not be available to the public until after it is approved. Furthermore, when such documents contain as attachments the documents of Bank member countries or of other institutions, such attachments will be made available to the public with the document, unless such country or other institution objects to their disclosure.”
1846
1906
This document is sometimes disclosed through the IFC Publications webpage.
1878
No information on this is available from the IIC’s website.
| Reference | IIC homepage (http://www.iic.int) |
| Sector | Private |
| Last Updated | |
| Status Updated | 2/7/2005 |
1580
They are in support of a loan request and are submitted by the borrowing government. These documents are disclosed after Board approval.
1581
This is a collection of country strategy papers, specific analysis, portfolio evaluations, etc.
1582
Article IV refers to the Obligations Regarding Exchange Arrangement.
1559
MIGA’s independent Operations Evaluation Unit (OEU), first granted funds in 2002, does not disclose any information anywhere on the web.
1899
The Bank prepares assessments of the policies and institutions for borrowing countries.
1900
This document is disclosed for IDA, but not for IBRD. The relative CPIA ratings for countries eligible for IDA financing, classified by quintile, are publicly available.
2707
"In the context of strengthening Bank-Fund collaboration on country programs and conditionality, IMF staff prepare a Fund Relations Note to accompany the Bank’s Program Documents for development policy lending, and Bank staff prepare an IMF-Bank Relations Annex to accompany Board documents for new IMF programs or when warranted by significant changes in country circumstance. Both Boards look to these annexes to transparently document the division of labor and each institution’s substantive views on reform priorities and conditionality in the areas in which it takes the lead...the IMF-Bank Relations Annex [will] be made publicly available by the Bank after it is distributed to the Executive Directors for information, taking into account the need to protect confidential or sensitive information, and relations between the Bank and the country concerned."
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