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Annual Report 2002 : Operations

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Technical assistance

A total of 324 technical assistance grants for $179.0 million were approved in 2002. This represents a 23% increase, compared with $145.5 million in 2001. The increase is primarily attributed to funds made available by multilateral and bilateral sources. Of the technical assistance grants approved, 87 were for project preparation; 160 for advisory and operational purposes; and 77 for regional activities such as conferences, research, studies, and training. Of the total, $56 million will be financed from the OCR current income, $46.7 million from the Technical Assistance Special Fund (TASF), $36.4 million from the Japan Special Fund (JSF), $9.6 million from the Asian Currency Crisis Support Facility (ACCSF), and the remaining $30.3 million from other multilateral and bilateral sources.

The largest recipient of country-specific technical assistance grants (excluding regional technical assistance) was Indonesia ($19.1 million or 14%), followed by Afghanistan ($15.1 million or 11%), India ($13.2 million or 10%), and PRC ($13.2 million or 10%).

By sector (excluding regional technical assistance), social infrastructure ($22.1 million or 16%) received the largest share, followed by multisector ($20.3 million or 14.6%), finance ($17.5 million or 12.6%), transport and communications ($16.2 million or 11.7%), agriculture and natural resources ($15.8 million or 11.4%), energy ($11.5 million or 8.3%), and industry and nonfuel minerals ($6.3 million or 4.6%). Other technical assistance received $28.8 million or 20.8% of the total. For more on technical assistance activities, see http://www.adb.org/ta/ and tables 24–28 in the Statistical Annex.

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