Infrastructure

At appraisal, the project components were selected from an inventory of all the destruction caused by the “El Nino” which had been prepared by the relevant government ministries with the assistance of the affected communities and United Nations agencies in Kenya. The key priorities were – reversal of life threatening situations; restoration of essential human services; restoration of vital economic functions and of life-line roads to cut off areas; and the protection of economic assets at risk. The project had four physical and one institutional component. The physical components were i) provision of chemicals, ii) the replacement of components in the national water resources monitoring network, iii) replacement and repair of components and machinery on the water supply system, and iv) the repair of 74 different category of roads. The fifth component was for consultancy services for the final designs, supervision of works, and technical, financial and management audits. See Annex 1

The evaluation will serve as an input into a larger evaluation of Bank’s overall assistance to Ethiopia. Thus it is a comprehensive review of Bank’s operations in support of macroeconomic stabilization, adjustment, institutional reforms, and capacity building in Ethiopia, covering all completed project in the sector. Some preliminary views will also be expressed on the performance of on-going projects. The evaluation focuses on Bank’s products and services, the achievement of objectives of those products and services, their efficiency, the sustainability of the achievements, their institutional development impact as well as economywide impact. The performance of development partners (the Bank, government of Ethiopia and other donors) is also assessed.

This evaluation examines the African Development Bank Group’s assistance to Chad over the period 2002–2012 which covers three programming cycles, namely 2002–2004, 2005–2009 and 2010–2014, each of which is based on a Country Strategy Paper (CSP).