Asian Project Management Support Programme (APMAS) is an IFAD-funded 3-year regional programme. It aims at improving the development effectiveness and efficiency of pro-poor rural development programmes in the Asia and the Pacific region. Its short-term objective is to enhance the management capabilities of rural development projects and programmes in the region. This will be achieved by (i) building project management capacity; (ii) strengthening the policy environment; and (iii) improving the capacity of service providers.

The expected main outputs and benefits produced by APMAS implementation are as follows:

• Enhanced capacity of project managers to implement and effectively manage gender sensitive, pro poor rural development interventions;
• Enhanced capacity of sub-regional service providers to support project managers;
• Improved availability and sharing of pro-poor specific project management and implementation best practices to enhance impact;
• Strengthened commitment of national governments and relevant NGO to results based management and participatory community driven development through increased awareness of benefits of improved rural development project management