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More effort is needed to ensure that GAPs and gender provisions are institutionalized by both executing agencies and ADB through inclusion of GAP elements and gender-sensitive indicators in RRP DMFs and in the monitoring frameworks for project performance reports. Overall, the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data, including baseline and monitoring data, need to be strengthened. More attention must be given to the implementation and monitoring of loan covenants. ADB loan review missions need to engage in dialogue with project implementers on results achieved for women, and executing agencies should provide regular reports on overall GAP implementation, results, challenges, and ongoing relevance of GAP strategies. Another important challenge for both executing agencies and ADB is to move beyond monitoring of women’s participation to monitoring and assessing outcomes such as practical benefits to women and men and positive changes in gender relations, particularly in midterm review, impact assessment, and project completion reports.

The CERD and SCBD projects benefited from the involvement of the ADB resident mission gender specialist during design and implementation. The ADB resident mission gender specialist has an important role to play in institutionalization, including sharing knowledge on effective GAP strategies across the portfolio and in priority sectors. This requires explicit and active support from resident mission country directors and ADB headquarters and a clear mandate that is understood and supported by ADB team leaders. GAP implementation would be strengthened if the ADB country partnership strategy explicitly identified gender equality results and the links between gender equality and ADB’s strategic areas of engagement in Indonesia. The absence of a GAP in the DBEP highlighted the importance of early engagement by the ADB resident mission gender specialist in project preparation in order to develop activities that are based on sound gender analysis and well integrated into the project design. The limited reporting of gender equality results across all three projects also highlighted the need for involvement of the ADB resident mission gender specialist in more loan review missions.