• ADF – Asian Development Fund (ADB’s concessional financing facility)
• ADTA – advisory technical assistance (an ADB category of technical assistance)
• APF – advance payment facility
• BIC – Bank Identifier Code
• BOF – Business Opportunities Fair (organized by ADB)
• BOS – Business Opportunities Seminar (organized by ADB)
• BTOR – back-to-office report
• BTP – bio-data technical proposal
• CAPE – Country Assistance Program Evaluation (by ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department)
• CBO – community-based organizations
• CDTA – capacity development technical assistance
• CFA – channel financing agreement
• CMS – Consultant Management System
• COBP – Country Operations Business Plan
• COP – Community of Practice (at ADB)
• CPRM – country portfolio review mission
• CPS – Country Partnership Strategy (framework for an ADB country program)
• CQS – consultant’s qualifications selection (ADB method for evaluating proposals)
• CSC – consultant selection committee (an internal committee of ADB)
• CSO – civil society organization
• CSRN – Consulting Services Recruitment Notice
• CTA – Cluster Technical Assistance (a group of related TA grants)
• CV – curriculum vitae
• DMC – Developing Member Country (of ADB)
• EA – Executing Agency (usually referring to an agency of the borrowing DMC)
• EM – extended mission (temporary assignment of ADB staff or consultant to a DMC where there is no Resident Mission
• EOI – expression of interest (by a consultant for a business opportunity)
• ETP – evaluated total price (ADB method of evaluating proposals)
• FBS – fixed budget selection (method of ADB for evaluating proposals)
• FTP – full technical proposal
• GEFP – gross evaluated financial proposal
• GFP – gross financial proposal
• BAN – international bank account number
• IADB – Inter-American Development Bank
• IBRD – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (also called World Bank)
• ICS – individual consultant system
• IEI – innovation and efficiency initiative
• INGO – international non-governmental organization
• JFPR – Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction
• LCS – least cost selection (ADB method for evaluating proposals)
• MDB – multilateral development bank
• MOU – memorandum of understanding
• MRM – management review meeting (an internal committee of ADB)
• NEFP – net evaluated financial proposal
• NGO – non-government organization
• OCR – Ordinary Capital Resources (non-concessional lending window of ADB)
• OM – operations manual (of ADB)
• PAU – project administration unit
• PCP – project completion report
• PID – project information document
• PO – purchase order
• PPTA – project preparatory technical assistance (ADB category of technical assistance)
• QBS – quality-based selection (ADB method for evaluating proposals)
• QCBS – quality- and cost-based selection (ADB method for evaluating proposals)
• RDTA – research and development technical assistance (an ADB category)
• RETA – regional technical assistance (an ADB TA covering more than one country)
• RFP – request for proposals
• RM – Resident Mission (of ADB)
• RO – Representative Office (of ADB)
• RRP – Report and Recommendation of the President (to ADB Board of Directors)
• R-PPTA – regional project preparatory technical assistance
• R-CDTA – regional capacity development technical assistance
• R-PATA – regional policy and advisory technical assistance
• SAPE – sector assistance program evaluation (by ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department)
• SEIA – summary environmental impact assessment (mandatory for certain classes of project)
• SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound
• SOE – statement of expenditure
• SRC – staff review committee
• SSS – single-source selection
• SSTA – small scale technical assistance
• STP – simplified technical proposal (used for small TA contracts)
• S-CDTA – small-scale capacity development technical assistance
• S-PATA – small-scale policy and advisory technical assistance
• S-PPTA – small-scale project preparatory technical assistance
• S-RDTA – small-scale research and development technical assistance
• TA – technical assistance
• TAIS – technical assistance information system
• TASF – Technical Assistance Special Fund (of ADB)
• TASU – technical assistance supervising unit
• TF – trust fund
• TOR – terms of reference
• WB – World Bank (also called IBRD-see above)

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