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, affected people, nongovernment organizations, and civil society organizations, the AM cannot work. Collaboration between the AM and Asian Development Bank (ADB) staff is essential. We are constantly learning from stakeholders in ADB projects and from project staff, and we also learn from our interactions in the field during outreach missions. In this publication, the Office of the Special Project Facilitator, the Office of the Compliance Review Panel, and the Compliance Review Panel itself present their activities in 2014 and some of the challenges for 2015.
