Strategy 2020
Working for an Asia and Pacific free of Poverty
Updated: 6 June 2008
Strategy 2020, ADB’s new long-term strategy, sets ADB’s strategic course for its operations to the year 2020. It reshapes, redirects, and repositions ADB for a more innovative and effective development role in our rapidly changing region and within the international aid architecture.
To fight poverty in a region of more than 600 million poor people surviving on $1 a day, Strategy 2020 will refocus ADB operations on three development agendas — inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration.
By 2012, 80% of ADB’s lending will be in five core operational areas identified as ADB’s comparative strengths
- Infrastructure
- Environment
- Regional cooperation and integration
- Finance sector development
- Education
By 2020, about 50% of operations will be in private sector development and private sector operations, and 30% in regional cooperation and integration. ADB will continue to operate on a more selective basis in health, agriculture, and disaster and emergency assistance.
The Strategy will serve as ADB’s main strategic document from 2008 to 2020, replacing the long-term strategic framework for 2001-2015 released in 2000.
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