Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund

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Type of Recipient
Public entity at the national level
Region
East Asia and Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
South Asia
Countries
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Cambodia
China
Cook Islands
Fiji
Georgia
India
Indonesia
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Kyrgyz Republic
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Micronesia
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nauru
Nepal
Niue
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Samoa
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Sri Lanka
Tajikistan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Fund Size

Approximately USD 98 million as of 2021.

Co-financing Requirement
No
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
Climate Objective
Cross-cutting
Type of Support Provider
Multilateral
Trustee or Administrator
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Contact Information

Contact ADB for more information.

Official Website
https://www.adb.org/what-we-do/funds/regional-c…

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.

The fund aims to:

  • improve cross-border physical connectivity;
  • increase trade and investment flows in developing member countries from regional and nonregional economies;
  • preserve macroeconomic and financial stability in the region; and
  • improve the regional environmental, health and social conditions.
Support Provider

Asian Development Bank, Japan

Purpose of Support
Strengthening enabling environments and stakeholder capacity
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

The Organizational and decision-making structure follows ADB’s standard policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Eligibility Criteria

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.
Eligible Countries

All ADB Developing Member Countries are eligible to receive support from the fund.