Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2022 to Question 35954 on Development Aid: African Development Bank, what those (a) policy commitments and (b) results targets were; what progress has been made by the African Development Bank on delivering those policy commitments and attaining those results targets; what the performance targets were on which part of her Department’s funding to the 15th Replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF15) was contingent; and if she will publish the data that provides the basis for her statement that those performance targets have now been met.

The policy commitments undertaken by the African Development Bank (AfDB) as part of the seventh General Capital Increase have been published as part of the Bank's Annual Report (Appendix 10, page 81 https://www.afdb.org/en/annualreport). This includes an update on progress against these commitments with the Bank assessing that 79 percent have been completed.

The policy commitments undertaken by the Bank as part of the fifteenth replenishment of the African Development Fund were published by the Bank as part of its report to Deputies on the replenishment (Annex 1, page 76 https://adf.afdb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ADF-15-Deputies-Report-.pdf). The UK made a portion of its funding to the fifteenth replenishment of the African Development Fund contingent on the achievement of a selected sub-set of these policy commitments, covering the following areas:

• Provision of sustainable and quality infrastructure;
• Governance and institutional strengthening, including on domestic resource mobilisation and debt management;
• Support for fragile states;
• Climate change;
• Gender and private sector; and
• AfDB organisational and development effectiveness, including on safeguards.

We will publish the UK's detailed assessment of the Bank's progress against these commitments as part of the next Annual Review of the Fund in line with our normal approach to publishing programme performance assessments.