Commitments in 2009
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Loans: Public Sector
Public Sector Loans approved (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Country | Purpose | Amount (in US$ million) |
Approval Date |
| Azerbaijan | Janub Power Plant (Euro 20 million) | 29.60 |
17.12.2009 |
| Benin | Kandi-Segbana-Nigeria Border Road | 11.00 |
17.12.2009 |
| Bolivia | Extreme Poverty Eradication Program Plan Vida | 10.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Rural Livelihoods Development | 6.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Botswana | Integrated Transport | 40.00 |
09.10.2009 |
| Burundi | Ntamba-Ndora Road | 8.00 |
17.12.2009 |
| Cambodia | Road Asset Management. Read more... | 7.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Cameroon | Sangmelima District Hospital – Phase II | 8.607 |
11.03.2009 |
| Central African Republic | Commodity Import Program | 9.30 |
17.12.2009 |
| China | Bosten Lake Basin Rehabilitation. See press release 19/2009. | 10.50 |
11.03.2009 |
| China | Gansu Healthcare | 10.00 |
09.10.2009 |
| Congo, DR | Rehabilitation of Primary Schools. Read more... | 5.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Cuba | Las Tunas Province Water Supply System Rehabilitation | 17.00 |
09.10.2009 |
| Dominican Republic | Electricity Distribution Rehabilitation | 30.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Egypt | Social Fund for Development | 25.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Ethiopia | Nekemte-Bedelle Road. Read more... | 15.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| The Gambia | Banjul Airport Rehabilitation, Phase II. Read more... | 8.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Haiti | Péligre Hydroelectric Plant Rehabilitation Program. Read more... | 15.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Honduras | Rehabilitation of the Agricultural Corridor Road | 25.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Jamaica | Eastern Jamaica Rural Roads Rehabilitation | 10.00 |
17.12.2009 |
| Kenya | Dundori Olkalou Njabini Road (Supplementary Loan) | 10.00 |
17.12.2009 |
| Madagascar | Bekoratsaka – Boriziny (RN6) Road Rehabilitation. Read more... | 10.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Malawi | Teacher Training Colleges | 11.00 |
09.10.2009 |
| Mali | Taoussa Dam. Read more... | 8.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Morocco | Rural Roads Rehabilitation and Construction – Phase II | 30.00 |
17.12.2009 |
| Mozambique | Energy Development and Access Program | 8.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Nepal | Lumbini Connectivity and Infrastructure Improvement | 15.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Pakistan | Neelum Jheleum Hydropower Plant | 31.10 |
17.06.2009 |
| Pakistan | Promotion of Rain Water Harvesting in the Earthquake Affected Areas. Read more... | 6.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Paraguay | National Rural Roads Program – Stage 2, Phase II. Read more... | 29.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Philippines | Road Sector Institutional Development and Investment Program | 30.00 |
09.10.2009 |
| Rwanda | Electricity Access Scale-up. Read more... | 10.00 |
17.06.2009 |
| Senegal | Linguère-Boulal Road (Supplementary Loan) | 4.70 |
17.06.2009 |
| Senegal | Agricultural Value Chains Support. Read more... | 9.10 |
11.03.2009 |
| Sri Lanka | Kalu Ganga Development | 16.00 |
17.12.2009 |
| Tajikistan | Kulyab-Kalaikhum Road | 13.00 |
09.10.2009 |
| Tanzania | Poverty Reduction, Phase II | 12.00 |
09.10.2009 |
| Tanzania | Same Water Supply | 12.00 |
17.12.2009 |
| Tunisia | Natural Gas Distribution Development – Phase II | 30.00 |
11.03.2009 |
| Turkey | Ankara-Istanbul Railway Upgrading (loan approved in Euro 25 million) | 36.80 |
09.10.2009 |
| Uganda | Vocational Education | 22.95 |
17.12.2009 |
| Uzbekistan | Rehabilitation of Irrigation Network and Drainage System in Djizzak and Sirdarya Region. Read more... | 12.73 |
11.03.2009 |
| Zambia | Cancer Disease Hospital, Phase II. Read more... | 6.00 |
11.03.2009 |
Loans: Private Sector
| Private Sector Loans signed (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Country | Recipient Institution | Type and Purpose of Financing | Amount (in million) |
Date Signed |
| Azerbaijan | Azerigazbank | Line of credit. See press release 17/2009. | 5.0 | 02.04.2009 |
| Azerbaijan | Access Bank Closed Joint-stock Company | Line of credit | 5.0 | 12.03.2009 |
| Djibouti | Doraleh Container Port | Loan. See press release 04/2009. | 15.0 | 19.01.2009 |
| Jordan | Airport International Group P.S.C (AIG) | Loan. See press release 03/2009. | 15.0 | 19.01.2009 |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura(CIFI) | Loan. | 15.0 | 25.08.2009 |
| Mauritius | Blue Financial Services Limited | Line of credit. | 15.0 | 08.05.2009 |
HIPC II Debt Relief
| HIPC II Debt Relief (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Country | Purpose | Amount (in US$ million) |
Date Signed | |
| Côte d’Ivoire | HIPC II | 8.5 | 08.08.2009 | |
Grants: Technical Assistance
| Technical Assistance Grants (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Amount (in US$) |
Purpose | Approval Date |
| 450,000 | This will support poverty-reduction efforts being carried out by the Austrian Red Cross, which has been working in cooperation with the Nepalese Red Cross Society. The initiative will help reduce poverty in some of the poorest areas in the country by carrying out community development programs aimed at improving water supply and sanitation, boost literacy and provide income-generation opportunities, among other goals. The present scheme will conduct similar activities in nine villages in the Rukum District in Nepal. | 17.12.2009 |
| 500,000 | This grant will support an ongoing Guinea Worm Disease eradication program in six endemic countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and the Sudan. The current program, which is in its final phase, aims at achieving full eradication by the end of 2012. Current activities will involve the development and maintenance of surveillance, reporting and response capacity of national agencies in endemic countries through the provision of technical and financial assistance and conducting of capacity-building activities. | 17.12.2009 |
| 500,000 | This grant was extended to support a project developed by the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research that aims at helping improve socio-economic conditions of women in six Arab countries; namely, Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Jordan, the Sudan and Yemen. This will be achieved by carrying out capacity-building among NGOs and governmental institutions that target the needs of disadvantaged women. It will also seek to empower rural women by facilitating their access to information relating to their rights and services available to them. | 17.12.2009 |
| 1 million | To co-finance an initiative of the UNHCR, which is carrying out reintegration assistance activities to insure the safe return of Mauritanian refugees from Senegal and Mali. UNHCR plans on providing returnees with the support services needed to facilitate their reintegration; insuring that they receive access to basic social services; and developing projects aimed at assisting communities that will be accommodating the returnees. The total number of beneficiaries is estimated at 28,000 people. | 09.10.2009 |
| 800,000 | To sponsor a program of the International Committee of the Red Cross Special Fund for the Disabled (ICRC/SFD). This will support operations in 15 SFD collaborative national centers in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe), as well as the SFD regional office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This will help boost the capacity of the participating centers so that they can provide high-quality physical rehabilitation services, benefitting over 3,000 disabled individuals. | 09.10.2009 |
| 600,000 | To co-finance the upgrading of radiology equipment at the King Hussein Cancer Foundation (KHCF) in Jordan. The KHCF, which is the only specialized center in the Middle East, is equipped to treat both adult and children. The facility needs to modernize its Interventional Radiology Suite through the acquisition of new equipment, thus enabling physicians to perform radiological procedures with greater accuracy. | 09.10.2009 |
| 1.2 million | To support research at eight CGIAR-sponsored (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) agricultural research centers See press release 31/2009. | 17.06.2009 |
| 1 million | To co-finance a rural water supply and sanitation project in Haiti sponsored by the Pan American Development Foundation. See press release 31/2009. | 17.06.2009 |
| 400,000 | To support a rural development scheme of the NGO Hilfswerk Austria International that will be carried out in the coastal zones of Lake Managua, Nicaragua. See press release 31/2009. | 17.06.2009 |
| 300,000 | To support an initiative of the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture (FPSC) and its national Peruvian implementing partner, Condoray NGO. See press release 11/2009. | 11.03.2009 |
Grants: Research
| Research Grants (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Amount (in US$) |
Purpose | Approval Date |
| 150,000 | This grant will sponsor a project of the Center for World Food Studies entitled Improving Pastoral System's Drought Resilience in Afar State, Ethiopia. The project will implement a Decision Support Tool (DST), which will assist policy-makers in the planning of drought-coping strategies for pastoralist societies in the Awash Basin, with a focus on optimizing allocation and management of pumping stations and the provision of price-weather insurance contracts. | 23.11.2009 |
| 100,000 | This grant will support the construction of a secondary school and hostel for homeless and impoverished children and youth in Tabora, Tanzania. Sponsored by FOSTER (Fransalian Organization for Social Transformation, Education and Renewal), the scheme will also insure that not only will beneficiary children be provided with a good-quality education, but also clothing, meals, medical care and shelter. The new facility will have the capacity to accommodate 600 pupils. | 23.11.2009 |
| 15,000 | This grant was extended to the University of Vienna, Austria to sponsor the translation of the Virtual Museum of Islamic Art website from German to English. This project will enable non-German speaking public internet users, as well as university libraries, journalists, museum staff and scholars, to benefit from the website. | 23.11.2009 |
| 100,000 | This grant is co-sponsoring the 8th General Conference of the Arab Thought Foundation entitled FIKR 8 Kuwait 2009, which will hold on December 9 – 10 in the State of Kuwait. The Conference bears the theme Integrating the Arab Economy Partners for Prosperity, and will bring together over 500 Arab and foreign leaders, businesspeople, scientists and researchers. | 18.08.2009 |
| 50,000 | This grant will help sponsor the IPI (International Press Institute) Business Journal Forum 2009, which will convene on November 12 – 13, 2009 in Baden, Austria. The Forum offers the opportunity for leading executives and journalists to a heavily-debated issue; namely, the relationship between businesses and the media. OFID’s contribution will specifically cover the costs of 30 journalists from least-developed countries to attend the Forum. | 18.08.2009 |
| 100,000 | This grant will support a scheme of Oxfam International, which aims at improving the living conditions and boosting food security among women in Senegal who are engaged in food processing/production. This will be achieved by providing financial and technical assistance to help them improve the quality and marketability of their produce as well as establishing local sales outlets, or kiosks. Some 2,500 rural women are expected to benefit from the project. | 17.08.2009 |
| 100,000 | This grant is sponsoring the 2nd Annual Conference of the Arab Fund for Environment and Development (AFED) which will be held under the theme The Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries. The event will take place in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 19-20, 2009, and is expected to bring together over 500 top Arab and international delegates, including 30 Ministers of Energy and Environment. | 17.08.2009 |
| 100,000 | This grant will help finance a project of the Nyma e.V, a non-profit NGO that aims at helping improve the welfare of the Tibetian people. The scheme intends to strengthen Tibetian traditional medicine (TTM), which uses local plants to cure various illnesses. Activities include bolstering the use of TTM in health care settings and the education and training of stakeholder in using these treatments. In addition, income- generation activities will be promoted through the construction of greenhouses for cultivating medicinal plants and herbs. | 17.08.2009 |
| 100,000 | To help finance a program of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) that aims at improving the quality of education at the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblas, a remote mountainous region in Tajikistan. | 17.06.2009 |
| 45,000 | To support of the 17th conference of the Islamic Academy of Sciences entitled Towards the Knowledge Society in the Islamic World: Knowledge Production, Application and Dissemination. The event will hold December 14-17 in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. | 17.06.2009 |
| 200,000 | To help fund the production of a series of TV programs in Arabic covering scientific topics. The initiative is being sponsored by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), a major library and cultural center established in Alexandria, Egypt in 2002. The series will include 40 programs grouped into ten parts which will cover a wide range of scientific subjects. The programs will target a large regional and local audience in the Arab-speaking world, particularly students, young scientists, researchers and educators. | 04.06.2009 |
| 200,000 | To co-finance an outreach program Claim Intake Activities of Damages caused by the Separation Wall in Palestine, sponsored by the United Nations Register of National Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (UNRoD). The program aims at insuring that all individuals who sustained material damage as a result of the separation wall in the West Bank are duly informed of their rights and be given the opportunity to file a legal claim. Temporary offices will be set up at various places in the West Bank and Gaza, each of which will be staffed by two claim intake teams. | 04.06.2009 |
| 50,000 | To support the Colombo Plan Secretariat's Professional Development Program for Sciences and Mathematics Educators (PDPSM), which will be held from July 29 - August 18 in Penang, Malaysia. The Program is expected to directly benefit 30 educators from 17 countries, including 10 least-developed countries. | 04.06.2009 |
| 30,000 | To sponsor the attendance of 25 students from developing countries at two conferences of the International Association for Energy Economics, which will be held this year in San Francisco, CA, USA and Vienna, Austria. | 16.04.2009 |
| 100,000 | To co-finance a pilot project of the Friends of Environment and Development Association (FEDA), that, since 1999, has rehabilitated and constructed important infrastructure in the Gamalia District in Cairo, Egypt. OFID's grant will support additional activities, which include provision of vocational and technical training courses and literacy programs, as well as schemes to raise locals' awareness of environmental issues. | 16.04.2009 |
| 100,000 | To support the participation of 45 young scientists from Arab and developing countries at the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, which will hold at Lake Constance on June 28 - July 3, 2009. The program will consist of lectures and discussions, including two panel discussions entitled The Role and Future of Chemistry for Renewable Energy and Global Warming and Sustainability. | 16.04.2009 |
| 100,000 | To sponsor the Vienna City Marathon, which will be taking place on April 19. The grant will be divided equally between two prominent Austrian NGOs; namely, Doctors for the Disabled and the Society for Austro-Arab Relations in support of their activities in poverty-reduction in least-developed countries. Based on VCM’s estimates, over 30,000 runners from over 80 countries are expected to take part in the event. | 11.03.2009 |
| 10,000 | To support a workshop sponsored by the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands entitled The Safe Use of Treated Wastewater in Arab Agriculture, which will hold in May, 2009, in Damascus, Syria. | 11.03.2009 |
| 100,000 | To help finance participation of experts from developing countries at the 2009 Technical Meetings of the CTBTO (Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization), which will hold in Vienna, Austria. | 30.01.2009 |
| 5,000 | To purchase copies of the NIPCC report published by Professor S. Fred Singer: Nature, not human activity rules the climate, which will be distributed to educational and scientific institutions in developing countries. | 30.01.2009 |
Grants: Emergency Assistance
| Emergency Assistance Grants (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Amount (in US$) |
Purpose | Approval Date |
| 500,000 | To assist the World Food Program in its efforts to fight hunger. See press release 46/2009. | 13.10.2009 |
| 750,000 | To assist natural disaster victims in Indonesia and the Philippines. See press release 41/2009. | 02.10.2009 |
| 1 million | To assist flood-damaged African countries. See press release 40/2009. | 09.09.2009 |
| 600,000 | To assist cyclone victims in India and Bangladesh.See press release 25/2009. | 08.06.2009 |
| 200,000 | To assist flood victims in Indonesia. See press release 16/2009. | 31.03.2009 |
Grants: Special Grant Account for Palestine
| Special Grant Account for Palestine (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Amount (in US$) |
Purpose | Approval Date |
| 2 million | This grant will support interventions necessary to increase the efficiency of the use of water resources for irrigation purposes in the North Western districts in the West Bank. Works to be carried out will include the upgrading of groundwater wells and irrigation systems, as well as the construction of water storage facilities. Capacity-building among Water User Associations and the Ministry of Agriculture and the Palestinian Water Authority is also envisaged. | 17.12.2009 |
| 2.5 million | The grant will be distributed among 25 Palestinian NGOs that are providing vital assistance in the areas of education, health and agriculture, as well as social and community development. The fund will help insure that the NGOs can continue delivering their services that would otherwise be unavailable to the Palestinian population. | 09.10.2009 |
| 1.2 million | To an UNRWA Scholarship Fund for Talented Palestinians. See press release 33/2009. | 17.06.2009 |
| 1.5 million | To support a project aimed at improving the quality of life for Palestinians in Jerusalem. See press release 11/2009. | 12.03.2009 |
| 2.5 million | To aid reconstruction efforts in Gaza. See press release 09/2009. | 26.02.2009 |
Grants - HIV/AIDS Special Account
| Special Grant Account for HIV/AIDS Operations (as of December 17, 2009) |
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| Amount (in US$) |
Purpose | Approval Date |
| 3.5 million | This grant will support an OFID/WHO Partnership on the Prevention of Transfusion-Transmitted HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Infections in Priority Countries. Activities will be carried out in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan contain the following components: assessing and developing national action plans for strengthening, and, where necessary, restructuring blood screening systems; upgrading of blood screening laboratory facilities and improvement of blood screening practices; and, implementation of blood screening quality assistance programs. | 17.12.2009 |
| 3.5 million | To co-finance an OFID/IAVI (International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) partnership. IAVI sought OFID’s support to bolster its research and development program in Africa and India. The partnership will support original and unconventional research to advance the design and development of AIDS vaccines to halt the virus before initial infection, control HIV should an infection occur, slow the disease’s progression and limit viral transmission. | 09.10.2009 |
| 2.5 million | To co-finance support an OFID/ILO (International Labor Organization) multi-regional project on Strengthening the World of Work Response to HIV/AIDS. See press release 31/2009. . | 17.06.2009 |
| 3.5 million | To co-finance an OFID/UNESCO project Partnership for Comprehensive Education Sector Responses to HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa. See press release 11/2009. . | 11.03.2009 |
| 2 million | To support an OFID/IDLO Joint Program on Legal Reform to More Effectively Manage HIV/AIDS. See press release 11/2009. . | 11.03.2009 |
Grants - Cumulative Commitments
| 1,159 grants, worth a total of US$476 million had been approved. Of this amount (as of end of December, 2009) |
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| Amount (in US$) |
Purpose | |
| 134 million | was made available as technical assistance. | |
| 62 million | was extended in emergency relief. | |
| 13 million | sponsored research and similar activities. | |
| 64 million | million was given to finance projects within the framework of the Fund's HIV/AIDS Special Account. | |
| 20 million | went to the Food Aid Special Grant Account. | |
| 78 million | was approved from the Special Grant Account for Palestine. | |
| 20 million | was a Special Contribution to IFAD | |
| 84 million | was approved for the Common Fund for Commodities | |