Cover -- Contents -- 1. The Handbook -- 1.1 Purpose and Scope -- 1.2 For Inquiries -- 2. General Information on Technical Assistance Operations -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Objectives -- 2.3 Types of Technical Assistance -- 3. Technical Assistance Financing Policies -- 3.1 Basic Principles -- 3.2 TA Milestone Event Dates -- 3.3 Expenditures Financed -- 3.4 Standard TA Cost Categories -- 3.5 Retroactive Financing -- 3.6 TA Cost Recovery -- 3.7 Change of TA Scope and Implementation Arrangements/Increase TA Amount -- 3.8 Consultant's Contracts under TA Projects -- 4. Payment Instructions and Practices -- 4.1 Payment Instructions -- 4.2 Requests for Payments -- 4.3 Payments to Consultants -- 4.4 Authorization of Disbursement -- 4.5 Disallowances/Nonpayments -- 5. Disbursement Procedures -- 5.1 Direct Payment -- 5.2 Reimbursement/Statement of Expenditures -- 5.3 Advance -- 6. Request and Liquidation of Advance -- 6.1 Request for Advance -- 6.2 Liquidation of Advance -- 6.3 Refunds -- 7. Required Supporting and Other Documentation -- 8. Closing of TA Account -- Annexes -- 1. Required Documentation for Claims by Consultants -- 2. Required Documentation for Claims by Executing Agencies/Cooperating Institutions/Others -- 3. Required Documentation for Claims by ADB Staff -- Forms -- 1. Certification Form for User Division -- 2. Certification for Compliance of Equipment Purchased/to be Purchased -- 3. Request for Payment to Individual Consultant/Non-ADB Staff (claim form for individual consultants) -- 3-1. ADB Instructions to Consultants (Firms & Individual) on Submission of Claims -- 3-2. ADB Individual Consultant Timesheet -- 4. Monthly Statement of Consultant Inputs (Claim Form for Consulting Firms) -- 5. Advance Payment Facility (APF) -- 6. Details of Cost Estimate for Workshop -- 7. Details of Cost Estimate for Non-Workshop.

8. Form for COSO's Endorsement of Resource Person's Honorarium -- 9. Liquidation of Advance Form (for Workshops) -- 10. Summary of Payments to Participants (for Workshops) -- 11. Details of Payments to Participants (for Workshops) -- 12. Liquidation of Advance Form (for Non-Workshop) -- 13. Summary of Expenditures (Non-Workshops) -- 14. Liquidation of Advance-Statement of Expenditures (SOE) -- 15. Liquidation of Advance-Project Financial Status (SOE) -- 16. Request for Closing of TA Account -- 17. Certificate of Turnover/Disposal of TA Equipment and Vehicles Purchased.