RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/WGTGP/W/20/Add.2
24 September 1998
(98-3678)
Working Group on Transparency
in Government ProcurementOriginal:  English
TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES:  INFORMATION FROM
OTHER INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Addendum
At its meeting of 22 June 1998, the Working Group agreed to request the Secretariat to
provide information on the technical cooperation programmes of international and regional
intergovernmental organizations in the area of gove rnment procurement, so as to enable the Group to
have as complete a picture as possible of the availability of technical assistance in this field.
In consequence, the Secretariat wrote to relevant international and regional intergovernmental
organizations requesting them to provide such information.  The present document reproduces the
information which has been received in response from the Asian Development Bank by means of a
communication, dated 20 August 1998.
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Please be advised that the following procurement-related Technical Assistance (T.A.) was
being implemented or planned for 1998:
- T.A. No. 2802-BHU (Bhutan):  Improv ement of Regulatory Framework for
Procurement and Contracting;
- T.A. No. 2845-PRC (People's Republic of China):  Establishment of National
Procurement Regulations for the Public Sector;
- T.A. No. 2857-LAO (Laos):  Institutio nal Strengthening of the Procurement
Monitoring Office;  and
- T.A. No. 3031-MON (Mongolia):  Development of Procurement Legislation and
Guidelines.
The brief description of the above T.A. can be accessed through the Internet
http://www.asiandevbank.org/law/menlaw.html, section "Law and Development Bulletin", subsection
"Projects by Country" or "Projects by Subject".
In addition, the following Bank activities are relevant to procurement:
- updating of the Bank's Guidelines for Proc urement, expected to be approved within
this year;  and
- the Bank's Anticorruption Policy, approved in July 1998.
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