Information Exchange Funding Agencies

Agence Française de Développement (AfD)

http://www.afd.fr

Assistance Regions:
Latin America & Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia & Pacific, Middle East & North Africa

Agence Française de Développement (AfD), the French bilateral development agency, is active in providing assistance in the financial sector, particularly in banking. AfD's priority regions are Francophone Africa and the South Pacific.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

http://www.adb.org

Assistance Countries:
Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan

Assistance Regions:
East Asia & Pacific, South Asia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966 and is dedicated to the development of countries throughout Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The ADB is active in financial sector development, with about 15% of the ADB's lending in 2002 directed towards the financial sector. The broad themes guiding its projects in the financial sector are creating enabling environments in order to generate business opportunities and catalyzing private investment. The ADB provides assistance to the financial sector through equities, loans, guarantees, and technical assistance, directed towards enhancing regulation and supervision, developing sound banking systems, deepening and broadening securities markets and creating bond markets. The ADB also supports the development of mortgage markets to facilitate housing finance, and the reform of pension and insurance systems to develop sources of long-term capital.

Austrian Development Agency (ADA)

http://www.eza.gv.at

Assistance Countries:
Nicaragua, Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Bhutan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, FYR of, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo)

Austrian Development Agency (ADA) is Austria's bilateral aid agency. ADA's priority in the financial sector is the development of small, medium, and micro enterprises. The majority of assistance is delivered to Africa and South-Eastern Europe, with priority given to Nicaragua, Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Bhutan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo).

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.c [...]

Assistance Countries:
Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is Canada's bilateral aid agency. CIDA provides financial sector technical assistance under the broad remit of private sector development (PSD). The objectives of PSD policy is to create jobs and sustainable livelihoods by facilitating the enabling environment and stimulating the growth of the local private sector in developing and transition countries. CIDA's priority areas are micro-finance, SME development, strengthening of the financial sector legal/regulatory environment, corporate governance and skills training to financial institutions. CIDA's priority countries in the financial sector include Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal and Tanzania.

Department for International Development (DFID)

Assistance Regions:
Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean

The Department for International Development (DFID) is the United Kingdom's bilateral agency for development cooperation. DFID's focus in the financial sector is enhancing the legal and regulatory framework of the financial sector, promoting banking and capital market development and micro, small and medium enterprise development.

In addition, DFID funds the Financial Deepening Challenge Fund (FDCF), a cost sharing grants scheme that encourages the private sector to contribute to poverty eradication efforts. The FDCF awards grants to private sector financial institutions that are committed to increasing access to commercially sustainable financial services for the poor and businesses that employ the poor. FDCF awards were made to bidders who made applications during the seven bidding rounds that ran between 2000 and January 2004. The FDCF operates in Botswana, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Pakistan, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia. In India, the FDCF operates only in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.