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More effort is needed to ensure that GAPs are institutionalized by both executing agencies and ADB through the inclusion of GAP elements and gender-sensitive indicators in the design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) in reports and recommendations to the President (RRPs) and in project performance reports. Overall, ADB and executing agencies need to strengthen the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data including baseline and monitoring data. ADB also needs to pay more attention to the implementation and monitoring of loan covenants. ADB loan review missions need to engage in dialogue with executing agencies on results achieved for women, and executing agencies need to provide regular reports on overall GAP implementation, results, and challenges. Another important challenge, for executing agencies and ADB, is to move beyond monitoring of women’s participation, to monitoring and assessing results and outcomes such as practical benefits to women and men and positive changes in gender relations, particularly in midterm reviews, impact assessments, and project completion reports.

Participation by the ADB resident mission gender specialist in CRUEIP and the HICH project loan review missions, and in supporting project gender advisers, improved the quality of project implementation. The ADB resident mission gender specialist has an important role to play to ensure that GAPs are institutionalized. 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. ADB could have further strengthened institutionalization by sharing knowledge on effective GAP strategies across projects and in priority sectors.