Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Nonsovereign
30.00
Technical
Assistance
4.00
Grants Total
7.00 1,196.00
= nil.
Note: Grants and technical assistance include cofinancing.
b
c
12
Amount ($ million)
297.30
14.98
70.00
20.00
402.28
BANGLADESH
The Asian Development Bank (ADB)
has been supporting Bangladesh since
1973, with its first field office established
in the country in 1982.
ADB has provided Bangladesh
with $17.2 billion for 259 loans,
$244.55million for 411 technical
assistance projects, and $787.10 million
for 35 grants. Bangladesh is a major
recipient of concessional resources from
ADBs Asian Development Fund.
From 1990 to 2015, Bangladesh halved
its incidence of povertymeeting one
of its core Millennium Development
Goalsand gained lower-middleincome status in 2015. The countrys
economic growth has been robust over
the past decade, and was almost double
the global average in the fiscal year (FY)
that ended on 30 June 2015.
In 2015, the Government of Bangladesh
developed its Seventh Five Year Plan.
The plan covers FY2016FY2020
and aims for Bangladesh to reach the
middle-income level by 2021. Also in
2015, ADB started preparing its country
partnership strategy, 20162020 for
Bangladesh, which will align with the
Seventh Five Year Plan.
Cumulative disbursements to
Bangladesh for lending and grants
financed by ordinary capital resources,
the Asian Development Fund, and other
special funds amount to $11.43 billion.
ADB-SUPPORTED PROJECTS
AND PROGRAMS
In recent years, ADB development
efforts in Bangladesh have focused
on energy security, transport services
and connectivity, education and
skills development, water resources
management, urban infrastructure,
and finance.
In 2015, ADB approved eight projects,
with loans totaling $1,155 million and
technical assistance of $4 million.
ADB also mobilized $1,087 million
in cofinancing during 2015.
NONSOVEREIGN OPERATIONS
As a catalyst for private investments,
ADB provides direct financial assistance
to nonsovereign public sector and
private sector transactions in the form
of direct loans, equity investments,
guarantees, B loans, and trade finance.
Since its inception, ADB has approved
$402.28million in nonsovereign
financing for 12 private sector
transactions in Bangladesh.
Success Rate
(%)
100.0
100.0
50.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
80.0
85.7
No. of Independently
Evaluated Projects
and Programs
1
4
4
1
3
5
3
2
5
28
COFINANCING
Cofinancing operations enable ADBs
financing partners, governments
or their agencies, multilateral
61
2014 ($ million) 2015 ($ million)
583.19
722.49
649.62
660.34
= nil.
Note: Totals may not add up because of rounding.
a
Note: Year refers to the circulation year of the project completion report (PCR). The success
rates reported here are based on the ratings from validated PCRs and independently evaluated
performance evaluation reports only and do not include self-evaluations. With small sample
size, the success rate does not necessarily represent country operations performance.
= nil.
Includes closed loans/grants that had contract awards or disbursements during the year.
Excludes policy-based lending/grants.
Includes only Asian Development Fund and other ADB special funds.
Source: PCR validation reports and project/program performance evaluation reports ratings
database as of 31 December 2015.
No. of Projects
27
15
17
2
25
Amount ($ million)
4,906.82
724.14
3,074.50
1,108.18
20.40
Item
Goods, Works, and
Related Services
Consulting Services
Total Procurement
2014
2015
Amount % of
Amount % of
($ million) Total ($ million) Total
264.25
3.51
267.77
3.15
0.63
2.99
605.93
16.91
622.84
5.45
2.65
5.30
Cumulative
(as of 31 Dec 2015)
Amount
% of
($ million)
Total
6,604.60
181.44
6,786.04
4.53
1.71
4.33
Sector
TRA
TRA
TRA
Contract Amount
($ million)
55.51
47.01
46.90
WUS
30.79
WUS
Others
19.70
1,684.44
Total
1,884.35
Navana-Pratibha-Jain Irrigation JV
TRA = Transport, WUS = Water and Other Urban Infrastructure and Services.
Contract Amount
($ million)
5.19
4.74
ANR, WUS
4.27
FIN
2.76
Consultant
TRA, WUS
Individual Consultants
2.32
13.55
Others
19.05
Total
51.89
PARTNERSHIPS
ADB is a leading multilateral
development partner in Bangladeshs
PROCUREMENT
Share of ADBs Procurement
Contracts
Consulting Services
OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES
The timely implementation of projects
remains a key operational challenge in
Bangladesh. In 2015, the Government of
Bangladesh and ADB began conducting
joint reviews of individual project
readiness and the status of key start-up
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
ADB will support Bangladeshs
efforts to achieve the objectives in
the governments Seventh Five Year
Plan. These objectives include faster,
inclusive, and sustainable growth;
the newly endorsed Sustainable
Development Goals; and attainment of
middle-income status by 2021.
ADB will provide assistance for largescale, transformational infrastructure
projects, especially in transport
and energy. This includes projects
contributing to regional connectivity,
which will foster the development of
economic zones and corridors, and
generate associated development
benefits.
$0.05 million
Umesh Kumar is the Director and Sharafjon Sheraliev is the Alternate Director representing
Bangladesh on the ADB Board of Directors.
Kazuhiko Higuchi is the ADB Country Director for Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Resident Mission
was opened in 1982 and provides the primary operational link for activities between ADB and the
government, the private sector, civil society stakeholders, and development partners. The resident
mission engages in policy dialogue, country partnership strategy development and programming, and
portfolio management, while also acting as a knowledge base on development issues in Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh government agency handling ADB affairs is the Ministry of Finance.
ADB is a multilateral development bank owned by 67 members, 48 from the region and 19 from
other parts of the world. ADBs main instruments for helping its developing member countries are
policy dialogue, loans, equity investments, guarantees, grants, and technical assistance (TA). In
2015, lending volume was $15.45 billion (107 projects), with TA at $141.30 million (199 projects) and
grant-financed projects at $365.15 million (17 projects). In addition, $10.74 billion was generated
in direct value-added cofinancing in the form of official loans and grants, other concessional
cofinancing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, guarantee
cofinancing, parallel loans, parallel equity, and cofinancing for transactions under ADBs Trade
Finance Program. From 1January 2011 to 31 December 2015, ADBs annual lending volume averaged
$12.93 billion. In addition, investment grants and TA funded by ADB and Special Funds resources
averaged $580.66million and $150.23 million in TA over the same period. As of 31 December
2015, the cumulative totals excluding cofinancing were $231.53 billion in loans for 2,822 projects in
44countries, $7.23 billion in 274 grants, and $3.90 billion in TA grants, including regional TA grants.
Contacts
Bangladesh Resident Mission
Plot E-31
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Tel +880 2 5566 7000
Fax +880 2 911792526
adbbrm@adb.org
www.adb.org/bangladesh
ADB Headquarters
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City
1550 Metro Manila, Philippines
Tel +63 2 632 4444
Fax +63 2 636 2444
Ministry of Finance
Economic Relations Division
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh
Tel +880 2 911 3743
Fax +880 2 918 0788
secretary@erd.gov.bd
Useful ADB websites
Asian Development Bank
www.adb.org
Asian Development Outlook
www.adb.org/publications/series/asiandevelopment-outlook
Annual Report
www.adb.org/documents/series/adb-annualreports
Depository Libraries
www.adb.org/publications/depositories
To access a complete list of development
and economic indicators, visit:
Statistics and Databases
www.adb.org/data/statistics
In this publication, $ refers to US dollars. Figures are estimated by ADB unless otherwise cited. Data are as of 31 December 2015 unless otherwise indicated. Fact sheets are updated annually in April.