Funds and Resources

ADB offers loans, grants, and technical assistance from Special Funds, Trust Funds, and other sources to help reduce poverty in Asia’s poorest countries.

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ADB Institute Special Fund ADB Ventures Investment Fund 1 Afghanistan Infrastructure Trust Fund (AITF) Artificial Intelligence and Digitalization Fund ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility (ACGF) ASEAN Infrastructure Fund Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund Asia Pacific Project Preparation Facility Asia-Pacific Climate Finance Fund Asian Clean Energy Fund Asian Development Fund (ADF) Australian Climate Finance Partnership Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia II Carbon Capture and Storage Fund Cities Development Initiative for Asia Clean Energy Fund Climate Change Fund Climate Innovation and Development Fund Community Resilience Financing Partnership Facility (CRFPF) Cooperation Fund for Project Preparation in the Greater Mekong Subregion and in Other Specific Asian Countries Cooperation Fund for Regional Trade and Financial Security Initiative Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility Domestic Resource Mobilization Trust Fund Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) Partnership Trust Fund Financial Sector Development Partnership Fund Financial Sector Development Partnership Special Fund Future Carbon Fund High-Level Technology (HLT) Fund Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP) Investment Climate Facilitation Fund Ireland Trust Fund for Building Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Small Island Developing States Japan Fund for Information and Communication Technology Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific (JFPR) Japan Fund for Public Policy Training Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism Japan Scholarship Program Japan Special Fund (JSF) Leading Asia's Private Infrastructure Fund Multidonor Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility Netherlands Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility Pakistan Economic Corridors Programme People's Republic of China (PRC) Poverty Reduction and Regional Cooperation Fund Project Preparation and Implementation Support Trust Fund Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund Regional Malaria and Other Communicable Disease Threats Trust Fund Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility Spanish Cooperation Fund for Technical Assistance Technical Assistance Special Fund United Kingdom Fund for Asia Regional Trade and Connectivity Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund Urban Environmental Infrastructure Fund

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Most of ADB's lending comes from its ordinary capital resources (OCR), offered at near-market terms to lower- to middle-income countries—and beginning in 2017—at very low interest rates to lower income countries. The Asian Development Fund (ADF) offers grants that help reduce poverty in ADB's poorest borrowing countries.

ADB also partners with the private sector by investing in smaller, riskier projects that are innovative, complex, and in challenging markets and sectors through financing programs such as the Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program.

Ordinary Capital Resources

ADB’s Ordinary Capital Resources operations are diverse, covering focus areas and sectors supporting operational priorities.
Asian Development Fund

ADF provides grants to ADB's lower-income developing member countries. Activities supported by the ADF promote poverty reduction and improvements in the quality of life in the poorer countries of the Asia and Pacific region.
All Funds

ADB also establishes and utilizes other funds and financing facilities to administer for its projects. These may involve partnerships with private entities and/or member countries and are given the same amount of care as ADB's own resources.

Innovations and Enhancements in Funding

ADB continues to add value to its provision of financing by developing new and innovative funding mechanisms. An innovation to combine ADF’s equity and lending operations with OCR balance sheet to enhance ADB’s lending capacity, while retaining ADF as a grant-only donor fund to provide grant assistance to eligible countries, took effect on 1 January 2017. This has increased ADB’s financial capacity to well over $20 billion by 2020.

Concessional lending to poor countries continue from the expanded OCR, on the same terms and conditions as current ADF loans.

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