Regional : Business Development and Implementation Support for Non-Sovereign Operations (ADB-57279-001)

Regions
  • East Asia and Pacific
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Sectors
  • Law and Government
  • Technical Cooperation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Advisory Services, Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 5.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 5.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 5.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ ADB website

Updated in EWS Jan 15, 2024


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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

As stated by the ADB, reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific requires strong private sector engagement to address key development and infrastructure gaps, offer stable trade opportunities, and create gainful employment. While there has already been a robust growth in the region in recent years with substantial private sector engagement, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to significantly increase its private sector support through providing financing and support to commercially viable private sector projects. In many of ADB's developing member countries (DMCs) particularly fragile and frontier economies, identification and development of sustainable private sector projects for ADB to support remains a key challenge.

Such challenges arise from inadequate awareness of private sector sponsors and borrowers about the value which ADB's private sector operations support can bring to potential interested private sector partners in terms of products and expertise in designing and preparing projects that would comply with ADB's safeguards and credit requirements, would encourage women's participation, and, in certain cases, helping to correct deficiencies in a business' enabling environment that fall short of attracting private sector investments.

Corruption, fraud, and money laundering harm economic development and hinder efforts to reduce poverty and have emerged as one of the key development challenges in Asia and the Pacific. To address this, ADB's Anticorruption Policy requires ADB projects and staff to adhere to the highest standards in these regards.

Among the the sub-sectors stated in the technical assistance report there are: "Oil and gas transmission and distribution", and "Conventional energy generation".

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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ADB Team Leader:

Genevieve H. Abel - Principal Transaction Support Specialist (Integrity), Private Sector Transaction Support Division (PSTS)

No contacts provided at the time of disclosure.

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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF ADB

The Accountability Mechanism is an independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who believe they are likely to be, or have been, adversely affected by an Asian Development Bank-financed project. If you submit a complaint to the Accountability Mechanism, they may investigate to assess whether the Asian Development Bank is following its own policies and procedures for preventing harm to people or the environment. You can learn more about the Accountability Mechanism and how to file a complaint at: http://www.adb.org/site/accountability-mechanism/main.

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