Recipient Countries
Eligibility criteria
Country eligibility to the African Development Fund (ADF) is based on IDA eligibility criteria namely:
- Per capita income
- Lack of creditworthiness.
The ceiling of per capita income for eligibility has been fixed at USD1,135 in 2009 by IDA (in fiscal year 2010) on the basis of the World Bank Atlas methodology. This ceiling represents an operational cut-off and is updated annually. Creditworthiness is the ability of a country to borrow on capital market and thus to be able to service its new debt at market interest rate such as the terms of loans provided by ADB or IBRD.
ADF eligible countries
Angola1 |
Democratic Rep. of Congo |
Kenya |
Rwanda |
1. Hardened lending terms
2. Inactive RMCs
3. Blend RMCs
Top ADF Recipients (1974-2008)
ADF cumulative approvals for the period 1974-2008 totaled UA19.14 billion (including multilateral operations). Ethiopia (8.9 percent), Tanzania (7.3 percent), Uganda (6.3 percent), Mozambique (5.6 percent) and Ghana (5.5 percent) are the top five ADF recipient countries for the period.
