Financing Opportunities for the CAREC Region

ADB offers loans, grants, and technical assistance from Special Funds, Trust Funds, and other sources to move towards a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the region.

Most of ADB’s lending comes from its ordinary capital resources, 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 offers grants that help reduce poverty in ADB’s poorest borrowing countries.

ADB offers a wide range of lending and grant modalities which include investment lending, policy-based lending, and results-based lending.

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.

ADB’s Strategy 2030 Health Sector Directional Guide describes ADB’s support to developing member countries through financing, knowledge and technical assistance. ADB seeks to increase the health sector’s share to 6-10% of total commitments.

The Central and West Asia Health Sector Approach paper outlines strategic priorities for the Central and West Asia region in integrated health services, health financing reforms, digital health and regional health security. It is closely aligned with the CAREC Health Strategy.