The African Development Bank Launches Operations Data Portal (ODP)

 

The Operations Data Portal (ODP) is a one-stop-shop web-based platform that consolidates information and data on approvals and disbursements of Bank Group operations on all Regional Member Countries since the inception of the Bank. The approvals information include the traditional loans, grants and lines of credit, private and public equity investments, emergency operations, HIPC debt relief, loan reallocations and guarantee, Post Conflict Country Facility and Special funds operations such as the African Water Fund (AWF), the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI), the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Congo Basin Forest Fund (CBFF). The approvals information are provided on a time series basis with sector, financing instruments, region and window classifications while the disbursements information include only disbursements on loans and grants with sector classification.

The AfDB Operations database Portal (ODP) features visually-compelling interactive maps and an analytical interface to create and share customized reports in one user-friendly platform. The Portal is available in both English and French.

This Platform is a work-in-progress and will continue to be improved, updated and complemented over time in particular with regard to the refinement and addition of indicators, as they become available. We welcome your comments to enable us improve on this service.

As part of its Public Disclosure Policy, the Bank is making this portal publicly available.

For assistance, contact: Kouakou Louis:  [email protected] and Penthesilea Lartey: [email protected] (on operations and data issues); and Christophe Baradandikanya: [email protected] (on IT issues).

 

 

Concepts, Definitions and Classifications

 

Concepts and Definitions

 

Approval: Financing approved by the Boards of Directors of ADB, and/or ADF, for the implementation of development projects and programs. Loan approval amounts are those indicated in the resolutions and summary decisions of the Boards of Directors.

Bank Group: The Bank Group comprises the following institutions: The African Development Bank (ADB), the African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF).

Cancellation: Loan cancellation comprises fully and partially cancelled loan amounts, and reductions in loan amounts agreed upon between the borrower and the Bank.

Co-financed Project: Project or program financed by at least one of the Institutions of the Bank Group and at least one external financier other than the borrower.

Commitment: Approved loan/grant for which an agreement has been signed between the borrower (guarantor) and the Bank.

Disbursement: Payments made by the Bank at the request of the borrower according to established procedures for the procurement of goods or services. Negative figures for disbursement indicate a reversal of financing instruments disbursements in prior periods.

Infrastructure: Infrastructure comprises Transport, Communication, Power Supply, Water Supply and Sanitation.

Loan Involving Co-financing: Loan and Grants approved for the implementation of a co-financed project or program. Over a specific period, the number of loans involving co-financed projects may be higher than the number of co-financed projects. This is due to the fact that a project cofinanced during a previous period may receive additional co-financing owing to increased cost of implementing the project.

Loan Reallocation: Application of loan balances from cancelled non-performing projects and loan savings on completed projects to new projects or to supplement loans of on-going projects.

Multiplier Coefficient: Extra number of monetary units mobilized for every one unit committed by the Bank Group on co-financed projects.

Other Approvals: Other approvals include HIPC Debt Relief, Equity Participation, Guarantee, Post Confl ict Countries Facility, Reallocations and Special Funds for Water.

Outstanding Loans: Loans excluding fully repaid loans and cancelled loans minus unsigned loans amount and undisbursed balance.

Private Sector Loans: Private sector development in Regional Member Countries through the provision of financial and technical assistance to private sector projects and programs.

Repayment: Refund, by the borrower to the Bank, of the principal of disbursed loan funds.

Social: Includes Education, Health, stand alone Poverty Alleviation, Micro-Finance, Gender, Population and Nutrition and other social.

Total Approvals: Includes loan and grant approvals plus other approvals.

Unspecified Sources: Refers to non-defined or unallocated sources of finance mainly pertaining to a project financing gap for which co-financiers have not yet been identified.

 

Regional classification:

 

Central Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon.

East Africa: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia.

Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Multinational: Financing which benefits more than one country.

 

Sectoral Classification:

 

Agriculture and Rural Development: Food crops, irrigation and drainage, cash crops, agroindustry, livestock, fisheries, and forestry.

Communications: Includes telephone, radio, telegram, postal services and satellite.

Education: Refers to support for educational infrastructure; general primary, secondary and higher education; technical and professional education, adult literacy.

Environment: Includes stand-alone operations that address environmental conservation and management issues such as reforestation to curb soil erosion, clean-up of water bodies, treatment and disposal of waste material, etc.

Finance: Refers to development banking, commercial banking and non bank financial operations.

Gender: Refers to interventions that address the specific potentials and needs of men and women, thus leading to equitable and sustainable development with the optimal participation of both sexes in development

Health: Refers to support for medical infrastructure, teaching of medical professionals and technicians, provision of medical equipment and care, production of pharmaceuticals, primary health care, and disease control.

Infrastructure: comprises: Transport, water supply and sanitation, power supply and communication.

Industry, Mining and Quarrying: Refers to operations in manufacturing, tourism, mining, and quarrying and small and medium-size industrial enterprises.

Multisector: Includes public sector management (including structural adjustment loans), private sector development, industrial import, export promotion, etc ...

Other Social Sector: Refers to operations covering more than one social sub-sector.

Population and Nutrition: Includes fertility and family planning issues; mortality, with a special emphasis on the emerging issue of HIV/AIDS; migration; refugees and displaced persons; and family structures.

Poverty Alleviation: Operations aimed at targeting benefits to the poor.

Power Supply: Production, transportation and distribution of electricity, gas, solar, coal, petroleum and other reusable energy sources.

Social: Includes: Education, Health, stand alone poverty allaviation, gender, population and nutrition, and other.

Transport: Includes road, air, water and rail transport, pipe transport, feeder roads.

Urban Development: Projects related to strategic urban planning activities.

Water Supply and Sanitation: Production, treatment, transportation and distribution of potable water; and development of sewerage systems.

 

Classification by Financing Instrument

 

Africa food Crisis Response Grant: Assistance provided to address the rising price of food, achieve food security and reduce the over-reliance on food imports, thereby reducing poverty.

Budget Support: Refers to Loan and/or Grants aimed at supporting government budgets in the implementation of a program of policy and/ or institutional reform that promote growth and to achieve sustainable reductions in poverty.

Debt and Debt Service Reduction: Refers to SFM Debt Alleviation and HIPC Debt Relief and Mechanism for clearing the arrears (Grant). Financing to eligible countries to ADF to assist in clearing arrears to ADF.

Emergency Operations: Assistance provided to mitigate the effects of unpredictable disasters in RMCs.

Emergency Post-Confl ict Reconstruction: Assistance provided to mitigate the effects of civil strife in post-confl ict RMCs.

Equity Participation: Share holding by the ADB in the capital stock of other development finance institutions and private enterprises.

Fragile States Facility Grant: A financing mechanism Assistance that provides assistance to poor and fragile countries for the purpose of meeting arrears clearance and budget support.

HIPC Debt Relief: Initiative designed to address debt problems of heavily indebted poor countries by supporting economic reforms and reducing the debt burden to sustainable levels.

Institutional Capacity Building : Loans and grants for acquiring expertise needed for strengthening national and regional institutions.

Lines of Credit: Funding provided to national or regional development finance institutions for investment in specific projects, generally for small and medium-size enterprises.

Loan Guarantee: An undertaking by the Bank to provide a guarantee facility to a public or private institution to enable it mobilize funds in the local or international financial markets. The facility covers the principal amount, and /or interest and other charges.

Middle Income countries Grant : Grant for Middle income countries was initiated in ADB financing of approvals for the countries as technical assistance.

Policy-Based Loan: refers to Sectoral and Structural Adjustment Loans.

Post Conflict Country Facility: Facility for clearing arrears of Post Confl ict Countries.

Project Cycle Loan/Grant : Loans and grants for financing feasibility and engineering studies.

Project Grant : Project grant financing was an innovative step taken in 2003 under ADF-IX guidelines to support activities in priority areas such as HIV/AIDS interventions, post-conflict reconstruction, investments in education, health and water supply and sanitation, and natural disaster reconstructions.

Project Lending: Refers to project loans, lines of credit and sector investment and rehabilitation loans.

Project Loans: Discrete investments aimed at creating specific productive assets or increasing identifiable outputs.

Project Preparation Facility: A complimentary facility to Technical Assistance Operations with a distinct note of financing project preparatory activities on a reimbursable basics.

Sectoral Adjustment Loan: Financing in support of policy and institutional reforms in a given sector.

Special funds for Water: Refers to operations by the African Water Fund and Rural Water Supply and Sanitation initiatives. In the tables, the approvals for this financing instrument are included in the Bank Group total approvals and excluded from the three windows. Hence, there is a discrepancy between the sum of the three windows approvals and the total bank Group approvals.

Structural Adjustment Grant: Grants for structural adjustment loans.

Sector Investment and Rehabilitation Loans:Investments aimed at strengthening or rehabilitating sector specific planning, production or marketing capabilities; often used to finance imports of equipment or inputs for a sector; and financing of reconstruction and rehabilitation following major disasters and economic dislocations.

SFM Debt Alleviation: A Supplementary Financing Mechanism that provides assistance to ADF-Only countries for the purpose of meeting interest payments due on outstanding ADB debt.

Structural Adjustment Loan: Investment in support of macro-economic policy and institutional reforms aimed at improving economy-wide efficiency.

Technical Assistance: Refers to Institutional building and project cycle loan and grant operations. As from 1996, technical assistance is provided on a grant basis only.