The High-Level Technology (HLT) Fund is a multi-donor trust fund established in 2017. It provides grant financing to promote the integration of HLT and innovative solutions into ADB-financed and administered sovereign and nonsovereign projects throughout the project cycle—from identification to implementation and operation. The fund encourages more widespread adoption of HLT to address development challenges in ADB's developing member countries.
Japan
Project implementation, supervision, and monitoring will be conducted by user departments following ADB’s standard policies, procedures, and guidelines.
HLTF Steering committee reviews and approves fund allocations.
The HLT and innovative solutions to be supported by the fund will have at least one of the following characteristics:
- improves efficiency, productivity, quality, functionality, and/or access to service delivery;
- addresses climate change mitigation, and adaptation, including resilience to disaster risks;
- introduces innovation in processes, methods, techniques, and the use of new --improved equipment and materials in construction, operations, and maintenance;
- reduces environmental and social costs;
- reduces life-cycle cost, increases durability, and improves long-term performance;
- enhances the scaling up of HLT and market opportunities for scale-up; and
- promotes synergies and increases scale and impact through cross-sector collaboration.
To ensure strategic resource allocation, eligibility for the fund will be based on a technology list updated annually. While all sectors are eligible, initially envisaged sectors include, but are not limited to, energy, transport, urban, and water sectors. Proposals for specific development challenges from technology providers will also be considered through the Partnership TA.
All ADB developing member countries
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