Strengthening Partnerships

This year's Annual Report of the Accountability Mechanism (AM) has the theme "Strengthening Partnerships" with good reason: Cooperation is the heart and soul of the mechanism. Without close collaboration among the AM, governments, affŽected people, nongovernment organizations, and civil society organizations, the AM cannot work. Collaboration between the AM and Asian Development Bank (ADB) staffŽ is essential. We are constantly learning from stakeholders in ADB projects and from project staffŽ, and we also learn from our interactions in the field during outreach missions. In this publication, the O–ffice of the Special Project Facilitator, the O–ffice of the Compliance Review Panel, and the Compliance Review Panel itself present their activities in 2014 and some of the challenges for 2015.