High-Level Technology Fund (HLTF)

Climate Objective
Adaptation
Mitigation
Sectors and Themes
Agriculture
Cities
Disaster Risk Reduction
Economic Recovery
Education
Energy
Forestry and Other Land Use
Gender
Health
Industry and Infrastructure
Jobs
Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
Oceans and Coasts
Poverty
Rural Development
Transport
Waste
Water
Youth
Type of Support Provider
Multilateral
Type of Recipient
Public entity at the national level
Private sector
Fund Size

$92.1 million

Co-financing Requirement
No
Application Timeframe

No batch schedule.  Open for submission any time of the year. Total duration of approval process is estimated at 15 days.

Trustee or Administrator
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Contact Information

Fund Focal: Hiroki Kasahara - hkasahara[at]adb.org

Fund Team: Richievel Ibanez - ribanez[at]adb.org

Region
East Asia and Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
South Asia

The fund aims to promote the integration of high-level technology and innovative solutions in the design and implementation of ADB projects in Asia and the Pacific.

Support Provider

Japan

Purpose of Support
Prepare Proposals, Projects and Pipelines
Project and program implementation
Funding Type
Grants
In-kind contributions
Monitoring and Reporting Procedures

Project implementation, supervision, and monitoring will be conducted by user departments following ADB’s standard policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Organizational and Decision Making Structure

HLTF Steering committee reviews and approves fund allocations.

Eligibility Criteria

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. 

Eligible Countries

All ADB developing member countries
 

Information on how to

Contact ADB for more information.