Sanctions

ADB imposes sanctions on parties that have engaged in fraudulent, corrupt, coercive, collusive, obstructive practices, or other integrity violations.

In accordance with the Cross Debarment Agreement, ADB may cross debar parties that have been debarred by any of the participating multilateral development banks (MDBs), and vice versa.

To ensure a consistent approach, participating MDBs agreed on harmonized principles for sanctions and treatment of corporate groups. Each participating institution may incorporate these guidelines into their respective processes for considerations of sanctions.

The following statistics provide an overview on the number of firms and individuals ineligible to participate in any ADB-financed activity, those whose eligibility have been reinstated, and those who have been imposed with other remedial measures.

Sanctions (covering 1 January to 31 March  2023)	Firms1	Individuals2
Total declared ineligible to participate in ADB-financed activity3	3,112	1,176
Currently ineligible to participate in ADB-financed activity	1,624	880
ADB Sanctions	961	659
Cross debarred entities submitted by Multilateral Development Banks4	663	221
Reinstated	1,488	296
Upon appeal	14	9
Upon completion of ineligibility	357	114
Upon completion of cross debarment	1,117	173
Cautioned/reprimanded	505	289

¹Debarred entities are ineligible to participate in ADB activities. A debarred firm’s ineligibility extends to all employees and officers of a firm, and may extend to other principals and contractual employees of the firm.

²Debarred individuals may not participate in ADB-related activity, as individuals or through nomination by an eligible firm, unless they have completely disassociated themselves with an ineligible firm.

³Since 1998 when ADB's Anticorruption Policy was established.

⁴African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank.

---

Sanctions period

The base sanction for integrity violations is 3-year debarment. The Integrity Oversight Committee (IOC) may impose a greater or lesser debarment period depending on the circumstances of each case. The IOC will be guided by the following ranges:

Debarment	Individuals	Firms
First debarments, including cases where a party has previously been given a reprimand	up to indefinite	up to 7 years
Second debarments	up to indefinite	up to 10 years
Subsequent debarments	up to indefinite	up to 20 years

Sanctions list

• ADB complete Sanctions List [authorized users only]

  Full list of entities that ADB sanctioned (includes published list)

• Published sanctions list

  Sanctions violations, second and subsequent violations, debarred entities who are uncontactable, cross debarred entities

• Cross debarred entities

  Firms and individuals debarred by other multilateral development banks (MDBs) that ADB cross debarred

• Case summaries

  Synopsis of ADB cases involving debarred entities

Sanctions lists of other multilateral development banks (MDBs):

• African Development Bank
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Inter-American Development Bank
• World Bank