AfDB Asia External
Representation Office(SNAR)The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Asia External
Representation Office (SNAR) is the Bank’s sole representative officeoutside Africa, opened in Hibiya, Tokyo, Japan on 15 October 2012,
and relocated to Kasumigaseki on 8 June 2020.
The SNAR’s mandate is to cover the Bank’s four Asian member
countries, which are China, India, Japan, and Korea. The SNAR isconveniently located in Tokyo’s business district, closer to government
offices, and easily accessible by all the major partners of the Bank,including African Embassies in Japan.
The Bank’s major objectives are to enhance partnerships and dialogue
with Asian countries, promote business and investment opportunities
in and with Africa, and widely disseminate and exchange information
about the Bank, itself, and development issues and projects in Africa.
The mission of SNAR is promoting external partnership and dialogue,
innovative approaches to business and investment, and knowledge
dissemination and exchange, all of which contribute to the mobilizationof resources for the Bank’s Ten-Year Strategy and five development
priorities known as the “High 5s.”

The AfricanDevelopment
Bank Group
African Development Bank GroupAsia External Representation Office
24F No:2408 Kasumigaseki Building,
3-2-5 Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-6024, Japan
Tel: +81 3 4589 8721
Fax: +81 3 4589 8725
Email: tokyo.info@afdb.org
Website: www.afdb-org.cn (Chinese)
www.afdb-org.jp (Japanese)
www.afdb-org.kr (Korean)

African Development Bank Group
Headquarters
African Development Bank Group
Avenue Joseph Anoma
01 B.P. 1387 Abidjan 01
Côte d’Ivoire
Tel: +225 2026 1020
Fax: +225 2021 3100
Website: www.afdb.org (English)
www.afdb.org/fr (French)

African Development Bank GroupAsia External Representation Office
SNAR

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Who We Are
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is one of the major Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) in the world. The Bank aims to assist its
regional (Africa) member countries (RMCs) in achieving a sustainableeconomic development and social progress, by mobilizing and allocating
resources for investment and offering policy advice and technicalassistance.
The Bank is composed of three institutions: the African Development Bank(AfDB), the African Development Fund (ADF), and the Nigeria Trust Fund(NTF). While the Bank Group primarily receives funds from its donorcountries, it also actively borrows from the capital markets to meet thedevelopment needs of African countries, as the Bank is rated AAA by all
the major credit agencies.
The Bank Group has Country Offices or Liaison Offices in some 41 Africancountries, and three Regional Development, Integration and Business
Delivery Hubs, in Nairobi, Pretoria and Tunisia. The Group also has theAsia External Representation Office (SNAR) as the sole office outside theAfrican continent.
The Bank Group Capitals (as of 31 December 2019)
Authorized Capital: USD 211.84 billion
Subscribed Capital: USD 91.47 billion
Paid-up Capital:
USD 6.85 billion
Callable Capital:
USD 84.63 billion
Total Reserves:
USD 3.87 billion

Our Members
The Bank Group currently has 81 member countries, of which 54 areAfrican (regional member countries) and 27 are non-African (nonregional member countries). The ADF comprises 33 contributing countries
and benefits 37 countries.

“High 5s”
AfDB’s Five Priority Areas

What We Do
The Bank Group has three major financial tools to promote the developmentof Africa.

1. Loans and Grants
The Bank Group offers loans and grants as its major operations in the RMCs.
Its loans are categorized either as Sovereign Guaranteed Loans (SGL) or
Non-Sovereign Guaranteed Loans (NSGL). The ADF offers grants and loanson concessional terms to the 37 lower-income RMCs. The AfDB offers loanson quasi-commercial terms for public enterprises and projects in non-ADF
countries, as well as loans on commercial terms for projects operated byprivate firms in RMCs under NSGL＊.
＊Eligibility criteria for both AfDB’s and ADF’s loans and grants are listed onthe Bank’s website.

2. Other Financial ProductsThe Bank Group offers other financial products, comprised of loans(including synthetic local currency and syndicated loans), lines of credit,guarantees, risk management products, as well as equity and quasi-equity.

3. Technical AssistanceIn addition to the aforementioned financial tools, the Bank Group also offers
technical assistances (TAs). TAs are to help the RMCs modernize theirfacilities and enhance both their public and private institutional capacities fordevelopmental project preparations, through grants and loans to train
experts, especially central and local or regional government officials.

The Bank seeks to promote strong, sharedand sustainable growth in Africa. Its 2013-2022
Strategy is designed to place the Bank at thecenter of Africa’s transformation and to improve
the quality of Africa’s growth. In September
2015, President Adesina set out five BankGroup priorities aligned with the 2013-2022
Strategy. These are: Lighting up and powering
Africa; Feeding Africa; Industrialising Africa;
Integrating Africa; and Improving the quality oflife for the people of Africa. The five priority
areas are referred to as the High 5s.

①②③④Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina
The Bank’s 8th President⑤Africa Investment Forum

Areas and Volume of Our Work
Sector distribution of Bank Group
total approvals, 2019
(USD 10.1 billion)
Industry･Mineral 1.2%
Social 4.3%

Environment 0.3%
Communication 0.5%
Water Supply
and Sanitation
4.6%

Finance
12.5%
Multisector
14.2%

Infrastructure
52.4%

Energy Supply
22.7%

Transport
24.6%

Agriculture
15.1%

In 2019, 293 operations totaling USD 10.1 billion were approved. The
diagram above shows the distribution of approved loans and grants bysectors in 2019. Since its inception, in 1967, and until 31 December 2019,the Bank Group has committed approximately USD 161.5 billion to support
6,162 development projects and programs in Africa.

In 2018, the African Development Bank launched the Africa Investment
Forum, a 100% transactional platform, to promote investments in Africa
and close its huge infrastructure gap. AIF is Africa’s investment marketplace —a multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary platform dedicated toadvancing projects to bankable stages, raising capital, and accelerating
the financial closure of deals. The 1st Africa Investment Forum was held
in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November 2018. In 2019, the 2nd AIF
once again took place from 11-13 November 2019. 2,258 participants,including 4 African Heads of States, representing 101 countries attended the 2nd AIF. It secured investment interest for 52 projects worth USD
40.1 billion.

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