Development Effectiveness Reports: Private Sector Operations

The Private Sector Operations—Report on Development Effectiveness series reviews the development effectiveness of operations carried out by the Asian Development Bank Private Sector Operations Department.

This report highlights the wide-ranging responses of ADB's Private Sector Operations Department to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and its contributions to help achieve Strategy 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.

ADB is targeting private sector operations to comprise one-third of total operations in number by 2024. To achieve this, private sector projects will include smaller, riskier projects that are innovative, complex, and in challenging markets and sectors.

This report highlights the Asian Development Bank (ADB) private sector operations’ development results in 2018 and major contributions to ADB’s Strategy 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Achieving the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change will require significant contributions by the private sector. 

ADB is partnering with private financiers to mobilize resources in support of public priorities by financing projects with significant development impact.

ADB's private sector operations made record contributions to promoting clean power generation and inclusive financial services in 2014 and 2015, and broadened engagement in other areas that contribute to economic development and growth.

This fifth annual report on the development effectiveness of ADB’s private sector operations reviews how the Private Sector Operations Department has contributed to promoting ADB’s development effectiveness agenda.

This fourth annual report on the development effectiveness of ADB's private sector operations reviews how the Private Sector Operations Department has contributed to promoting ADB's development effectiveness agenda.

This third annual report on the development effectiveness of ADB's private sector operations reviews how the Private Sector Operations Department has contributed to promoting ADB's development effectiveness agenda.