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Policy and Strategy Papers

ADB prepares a large number of documents that provide it with mandates and/or direction and guidance for undertaking activities in diverse areas. Policy and strategy papers are the two most important directional documents of ADB. A list of key existing policy and strategy papers is given below.

Procedural requirements and guidance on the implementation of policies are spelled out in the Operations Manual.

ADB has recently updated the sector and thematic classification of operational projects. The new system lists both the sectors/themes as well as subsectors/subthemes.

View the list of safeguard policies and sector or thematic strategies to be developed or reviewed over the next 12 months.


Policy Papers
  1. Accountability Mechanism May 2003
  2. Anticorruption July 1998
  3. Bank Criteria for Subsidies October 1996 [ PDF ]
  4. Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism March 2003
  5. Cooperation between ADB and NGOs March 1998
  6. Cost Sharing and Eligibility of Expenditures for Asian Development Bank Financing: A New Approach August 2005
  7. Disaster and Emergency Assistance May 2004
  8. Environment November 2002
  9. Financing Foreign Exchange Component of Local Expenditure September 1969
  10. Financing of Interest and Other Charges During Construction September 1990
  11. Gender and Development June 1998
  12. Governance: Sound Development Management August 1995
  13. Graduation
  14. Guarantee Operations
  15. Increasing the Impact of the Asian Development Bank’s Technical Assistance Program May 2008
  16. Indigenous Peoples June 2003
  17. Involuntary Resettlement September 1995
  1. Introducing the Local Currency Loan Product August 2005 [ PDF ]
  2. Lending Foreign Exchange for Local Currency Expenditure January 1995
  3. Loan Terms for the ADF November 1998
  4. Mainstreaming the Multitranche Financing Facility June 2008
  5. OCR Financial Loan Products June 2001
  6. Performance-Based Allocation for ADF Resources November 2004
  7. Pilot Financing Instruments and Modalities August 2005
  8. Private Sector Operations August 2001
  9. Procurement Guidelines February 2007
  10. Program Lending
  11. Public Communications Policy (PCP)
  12. Regional Cooperation April 1994 [ PDF ]
  13. Review of ADB's Credit Enhancement Operations August 2006 [ PDF ]
  14. Revising the Framework for Asian Development Fund Grants September 2007 [ PDF ]
  15. Sector Lending May 1980
  16. Supplementary Financing
  17. Use of Consultants by the Asian Development Bank and Its Borrowers February 2007

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Sector Policy Papers
  1. Agriculture and Natural Resource Research November 1995
  2. Education August 2002
  3. Energy June 2000
  4. Fisheries September 1997
  1. Forestry February 1995
  2. Health February 1999
  3. Population July 1994
  4. Water October 2001

Strategy Papers
  1. ADB Results Framework August 2008 [ PDF ]
  2. ADB's Financing Partnership Strategy June 2006 [ PDF ]
  3. Cofinancing
  4. Long Term Strategic Framework 2008-2020
  5. Medium-Term Strategy 2006–2008
  6. Microfinance Development June 2000
  7. Poverty Reduction January 2004
  8. Private Sector Development March 2000
  1. Regional Cooperation and Integration May 2006
  2. Social Protection Strategy April 2008
  3. Toward E-Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Strategic Approach for Information and Communication Technology November 2003
  4. Urban Sector December 1999
  5. Enhancing Asian Development Bank Support to Middle-Income Countries and Borrowers from Ordinary Capital Resources

Works in Progress
  1. Safeguard Policy Update July 2005
  1. Special Evaluation Study on the Energy Policy - Position Paper June 2006

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