Leading Asia's Private Infrastructure Fund (LEAP)

Type of Recipient
Private sector
Region
East Asia and Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
South Asia
Fund Size

USD 1.5 billion

Co-financing Requirement
No
Sectors and Themes
Cities
Energy
Industry and Infrastructure
Transport
Water
Climate Objective
Cross-cutting
Type of Support Provider
Multilateral
Trustee or Administrator
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The Leading Asia's Private Infrastructure Fund was established in March 2016. The fund is an infrastructure co-financing fund, expected to leverage and complement ADB’s existing non-sovereign platform to fill financing gaps and increase access to finance for infrastructure projects in the region.

The fund will provide cofinancing to non-sovereign infrastructure projects at different stages of development, including early stage, growth stage, and greenfield and brownfield projects. It will support projects with strong anticipated development impacts and alignment with the strategies of ADB and JICA. The fund will undertake project finance (nonrecourse or limited recourse) and corporate finance transactions, and will seek to support a range of private sector participation modalities including public–private partnerships, joint ventures, private finance initiative projects, and privatizations, as well as conventional project finance.

Support Provider

Japan

Purpose of Support
Project and program implementation
Funding Type
Loans (concessional and market-rate)
Other
Monitoring and Reporting Procedures

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

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible project types will include the following infrastructure subsectors:

  1. energy, including renewable energy generation, energy efficiency and conservation;
  2. water and other urban infrastructure and services, including water, wastewater, and solid waste management;
  3. transport, including road transport, water transport, rail transport, air transport, multimodal logistics, urban roads and traffic management, and urban public transport;
  4. information and communication technology; and
  5. health.

The fund will provide financing to companies and projects, as well as to financial intermediaries (e.g., holding companies and local currency vehicles) where there is a link to Infrastructure (with the exclusion of private equity funds).

Eligible Countries

Eligible countries include ADB developing member countries that are also eligible for official development assistance (ODA) from Japan.

Information on how to

Contact ADB for more information.