What criteria does ADB use to evaluate projects?
Your project must be financially viable with significant economic and social merit, and a positive development impact. We look for projects that reduce poverty, protect the environment, and improve the lives of the poor. Specifically, your project should achieve one or more of these: • supply basic needs and services for a wide segment of the population • transfer technology and know-how • expand the role of the private sector • improve the quality of private sector participation. The project’s cost must be reasonable. The sharing of risks and rewards must be fair for both the country and the sponsors. Infrastructure projects should demonstrate a fair and transparent competitive bidding process. We never support projects whose financial viability depends on tariff or nontariff protection, or government subsidy. We encourage projects that promote a better financial environment for business. For example, we like to see new sources of debt and equity financing, and institutions that promo
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