Support to the Implementation of Strategy 2030 Operational Plans

Knowledge and Support Technical Assistance (TA) 54023-001

MATRIX OF SAMPLE ACTIVITIES TO BE SUPPORTED

Note: The consultants’ position titles indicated in the matrix are specific areas that are identified in the qualifications sections of the
terms of reference.

Output 1 Output 2 Output 3

OP1 Activities OP1 Activities OP1 Activities
• Support preparation of Inclusive and • Knowledge products: to support DMCs in • Monitoring of OP1 implementation
Sustainable Growth Assessment (ISGA) developing policies to address issues related across regional departments, including
on human capital and social protection for to human capital, and the impact of COVID 19 assessment of current indicators’
selected CPS • Workshop: Visionaries meeting on skills alignment with broader sector and
• Identify integrated multisectoral OP1 required to address emerging human capital thematic plans
opportunities for projects in the areas of issues (health workers, teachers, social
healthy aging and care; develop prevention workers) Consultant:
policies in schools and health care facilities • M&E Specialist by Q3 2020
• Enhance the role of civil society Consultants:
organizations in awareness raising and • Subject matter experts to develop policy
assistance with social distancing, contact briefs (international)
tracing and livelihood recovery related to • International consultant
COVID-19

Consultants:
• Poverty Economist
• Education and skills expert
• Health expert
• Aged care expert
• Digital technology expert
• Social Dev’t/CSO expert
OP2 Activities OP 2 Activities OP2 Activities
• Support for designing/ processing • Workshop: Asia and the Pacific Gender • Review of OP2 implementation in
transformative gender agenda in projects, Forum sovereign and nonsovereign operations
e.g., on TVET and STEM for girls, • Knowledge products: (i) Technical study on
transition from schools to jobs, randomized measuring the gender impact of quality Consultant:
control trials infrastructure investment; (ii) Technical Study • Gender and Dev’t specialist
on "Fostering a 'new normal' for the future of
Consultant: work of women"; (iii) Progress
• Gender and Dev’t specialist review/technical update of SDGs and gender
data; (iv) OP2 and OP3 joint guidance note on
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Output 1 Output 2 Output 3

synergies between gender and climate
change

Consultants:
• Gender and infra specialist
• Gender and labor economist/gender and
digital economy specialist
• Gender and SDGs specialist
• Gender and climate change consultant
• Forum expenses: 200 participants

OP3 Activities OP3 Activities OP3 Activities

• Strategic support to 2-3 CPS to address • Knowledge products to support ODs in • To measure the implementation of
climate change, disaster risk management, delivering innovative projects: (i) Coastal OP3, selected measures will be
and environmental issues, to demonstrate Resilience; (ii) Quality infrastructure; (iii) OP2 supported, such as: indicator
a new approach for other CPSs. and OP3 joint guidance note on synergies development; baseline assessments;
between gender and climate change; (iv) New guideline development to measure the
Consultant/s: sources of climate finance; and (v) Blue indicators.
• Subject matter experts (international and finance.
national) assigned in RMs to assist in the • Knowledge services/events: Examples of
preparation and development of the CPS requests that could be supported on an ad
hoc basis: support of capacity building
events; analysis and assessments; support of
policy dialogues; support in the design of
specific components of investment projects

Consultants:
• Budget will support consultants and event
expenses.
OP4 Activities OP4 Activities OP4 Activities
• Country analysis and support for the • Knowledge products: Prepare KPs for various • Monitoring and reporting for OP4
preparation and development of CPS for 2 topics as indicated in OP4 including support to ODs in creating
DMCs • Knowledge sharing/ capacity building events: awareness-raising materials on outputs
• Identification of integrated multisectoral on localization of SDGs and NDCs by and outcomes of OP4 implementation
opportunities for 2 CPS and projects under preparing city-level SDGs and Low Carbon taking into consideration all seven OPs
preparation. plans, integrated solutions for livable cities
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Output 1 Output 2 Output 3

• Support DMCs on one of 8 themes as plans and smart cities plans; and improving
follows: Low Carbon Transformation, governance: local revenue generation, land-
Ocean Health and Nature-based Solution, based financing & property tax, municipal
Localization of SDGs, G20 Quality financing, PPPs, developing SMEs and jobs
Infrastructure, Integrated Urban/Regional in cities, performance-based institutional
Planning including Peri-urban/Economic strengthening mechanisms.
Corridor, Urban Mobility, Community
Health, Urban Design, Strengthening Consultants:
Urban Institutions and Urban Utilities • International and national specialists:
Capacity Development Specialist;
Consultants: Governance and Institutional Development
• International Specialist and National Specialist; Urban Planner / Urban Designer /
Specialists in Climate Change and Project Coordination Specialist; Urban
Disaster Resilience Specialist; Urban Development Specialist / PPP Specialist;
Water Supply / Wastewater Specialist; Smart City / ICT Specialist; Urban Economist
Urban Infrastructure Specialist; - Urban / Urban Finance Specialist; Environment
Development Specialist; Urban Transport Specialist; Community Health Specialist;
Specialist; Urban Waste Management Infrastructure Specialist; Low Carbon
Specialist; Affordable Housing Transformation Specialist; Ocean health /
nature-based solution Specialist; Localization
of SDGs Specialist; Urban Mobility Specialist;
Urban Water Supply / Wastewater Specialist;
Urban Waste Management Specialist;
Affordable Housing Specialist
OP5 Activities OP5 Activities OP5 Activities
• Support selected projects in • Knowledge products: (i) sector research to
conceptualization stage explore potential ADB investments; (ii) sector • Benchmark studies to determine
• Make available a roster of experts for each priorities based on consultation with baselines for OP5 indicators
operational plan in collaboration with other operations departments and stakeholders in • Database to monitor progress of OP5
operational priorities to jointly fund governments; (iii) cross-country studies on implementation (i.e., vis a vis ADB
activities that match TRTAs of operations rural development strategy and country Corporate Results Framework)
departments experiences (can include linking agri- • Support operations in creating
• Develop a database of internal and processing SME’s to e-commerce markets, awareness-raising materials on outputs
external experts aligned with the three OP5 and (ii) linking smallholders with digitized and outcome of OP5 implementation.
pillars (rural development, agricultural value chains).
value chains, and food security, including • Knowledge services/capacity building events: Consultants:
cross-cutting areas) (i) policy dialogues and consultations; (ii) • Evaluation Specialists
training materials and workshops; (iii) flagship • ICT Specialist
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Output 1 Output 2 Output 3

• Develop a TA financing facility to support events to convene key stakeholders from • Communications Specialist
OP5 implementation government, private sector, civil society, • Graphics Design
youth and academe; (iv) sponsor participation • Multimedia and Visual Communications
of government officials in knowledge events; Specialist
Consultants: (v) Co-organize/Co-sponsor international
• Agriculture Specialists to undertake events to share ADB initiatives
collaborative research on nexus areas in
OP5 that match operations TRTAs Consultants:
• Knowledge Management Specialist to • [for KPs] International: Rural Development
develop the database structure; undertake Specialist; Agricultural Value Chains
research of internal and external experts; Specialist; Food Security Specialist; value
populate the content chain and e-commerce specialists
• ICT Specialist to set up the database • [for policy dialogues]: Policy Development
platform; populate the content Specialist
• Institutional/Strategy Development • [for trainings/capacity development] Learning
Specialist Specialist, Knowledge
Management/Knowledge Sharing Specialist,
Rural Development Specialist, Agricultural
Value Chains Specialist, Food Security
Specialist
• Costs for workshops and sponsoring
government officials events.
OP6 Activities OP6 Activities OP6 Activities
• Support preparation of Governance Risk • Knowledge products: (i) 1 or 2 notes to help • Review 15‒20 projects both national
Assessments for at least 4 CPS. operationalize the 6 Principles of Quality and sub-national and provide a
• Support 2 CPSs to model good practices in Infrastructure Investment as it applies to methodology to support OP6 indicators
stakeholder consultations to inform and urban infrastructure; (ii) guidance notes on in the CRF including aggregation
design CPSs including giving voice to KPI, stakeholder engagement, and across the DMF project indicators over
youth, aged, women, poor and other performance management in energy, water, the 2020‒21 period
vulnerable groups. and transport; (iii) relevant lessons from the • Prepare guidance notes and revisions
• Support preparation of 2 investment Open Government Partnership (OGP), to OMs and Staff Instructions to support
projects to integrate service delivery and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives RDs in generating reports to easily help
fiscal sustainability, including access to (EITI), and good practice in Beneficial track indicators for OP6 and
non-sovereign financing and relevant Ownership and Accountability in Asia; (iv) contribution to those indicators across
regulatory changes develop a dashboard for policymakers and other OPs for the CRF
district and local administrators; (v)
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Output 1 Output 2 Output 3

• Prepare 3 “snapshots” to identify local level knowledge products to showcase • Identify improved methodology to
sub-projects that support collaborative applications using better data analytics, account for value addition for
initiatives as part of voluntary national machine learning and big data to diagnose intangibles such as citizen engagement
requirements. development challenges and identify smart and tangibles such as higher
solutions technology solutions in projects.
• Knowledge/ capacity building events: (i)
Governance Forum; (ii) events for quality
Consultants: infrastructure and sustainability of livable Consultants:
• [for CPS] PSM/Governance Specialists cities, PEFA subnational programs, National consultants
• [for projects] PSM/Governance Specialists successful SOE reform, and assessing
• [for snapshots] PSM/Governance governance fiscal risks from mobilizing
Specialists/Technical writer commercial resources for local infrastructure
projects; (iii) training for institutional
strengthening such as results based
budgeting and derived applications such as
gender-based budgeting; (iv) capacity
building for young leaders.

Consultants:
• [for knowledge products] PSM/Governance
specialists with expertise in 1) infrastructure
and PPPs 2) SOE reform 3) performance
management and 4) digital technology,
international, national
• [for capacity development] specialists in 1)
meeting support; 2) governance and gender;
and 3) youth and NGOs, international,
national

OP7 Activities OP7 Activities OP7 Activities

• Support use of subregional platforms to • Knowledge products: (i) intersubregional • 2022 Mid-term Review of Strategy 2030
create a NSO RCI pipeline: (i) identify publication on cross-differentiated RCI Operational Plan
priority NSO projects, (ii) assess programming focused on COVID-19 recovery
commercial viability of pipelines and/or and linking subregional platforms; (ii) cross- Consultants
policy reforms and structuring required to thematic studies on (a) Bangladesh- • International consultant (Regional
make them viable in conjunction with RDs, Myanmar Cross Border Migration and (b) Cooperation Specialist and
OPPP and PSOD, (iii) work with RDs to Indonesia-Papua New Guinea Cross-Border Development Economist)
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Output 1 Output 2 Output 3

incorporate priority projects into relevant cooperation; and (iii) joint MDB publication on • National consultant (Research
country CPS/ COPB, (iv) identify a high-priority RCI subject Associate and Data Analyst)
systematic changes in subregional • Knowledge services/capacity building events: • Resource persons (connectivity
platforms to promote greater private sector (i) policy dialogues and knowledge sharing specialist, and RPG specialist)
engagement. amongst subregional platforms through
seminars on cross-sectoral RCI topics to
Consultant: encourage policy dialogue; and (ii) 2021 RCI
• PPP specialist Conference

Consultants:
• Regional cooperation specialist
• Health Specialist
• [policy dialogues] Resource persons, Event
coordinator;
• Two to three consultants on trade,
connectivity and SME
• Regional Cooperation Specialist and
Development Economist
• Sector/theme specialists
• Research Assoc/Data Analyst
• [conference] Event Coord.
• Resource persons
• Conference costs for the 2021 RCI
Conference (around 70 participants)