The Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund is a special fund established in February 2007 in response to the increasing demand for regional cooperation and integration activities among ADB’s member countries in Asia and the Pacific. Its main objective is to improve regional cooperation and integration by facilitating the pooling and provision of additional financial and knowledge resources.
Asian Development Bank, Japan
Project implementation, supervision, and monitoring will be conducted by user departments following ADB’s standard policies, procedures, and guidelines.
The Organizational and decision-making structure follows ADB’s standard policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Activities to be supported by the fund are projects that:
- require collective efforts and actions of two or more countries to jointly respond to cross-border issues;
- are national in nature but with significant regional dimensions/implications;
- facilitate regional policy dialogues, including the establishment of regional policies for greater RCI;
- support research and promote knowledge generation and dissemination among developing member countries in the area of regional cooperation and integration;
- strengthen institutional capacity of regional/subregional groupings;
- support regional partnership building with regional and international institutions; and
- have linkages to Regional Cooperation Strategies and/or Country Partnership Strategies.
All ADB Developing Member Countries
Contact ADB for more information.