Islamic Development Bank (IDB) approved more than $1 billion for global development projects

The 284th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank, which convened at IDB headquarters starting Sunday 16 July, under the chairmanship of Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali, President, IDB Group, approved more than $ 1,158 million towards development projects financing for IDB member countries and Muslim communities in non-member countries.

This is the largest amount of approvals by a single IDB board meeting since the Bank’s inception in 1975. The approvals covered a large number of strategically important development projects comprising:

$683 million for power generation and power transmission projects in five IDB Member Countries:  Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan;

$274.8 million for food security and rural development activities in African countries:  Cameroon, Chad, Uganda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Togo;

$146.2 million for educational projects in Indonesia, Yemen and Bangladesh;

$45 million to Indonesia Exim Bank for the financing of export-oriented small and medium size industries;

$7.6 million as additional financing for Durres fishing in Albania (bringing IDB contribution for that project to $16.8 million);

$400,000 technical assistance grant to Djibouti for the Mother to Child AIDS Transmission Prevention Project in the health sector.

In line with the Islamic Development Bank’s resolve to support development efforts in Muslim communities in non-member countries, the board also approved $1.1 million as grants from the Wakf fund for participation in four educational projects for Muslim communities in Ethiopia, India, Papua New Guinea and Germany and one health project in the Philippines.

During its meeting, the board reviewed a number of important reports including the progress report on the implementation of IDB’s program for supporting Youth Employment in Arab Countries for which the Bank had already allocated $250 million and another report on the latest developments on the establishment of the ‘Mega Bank’, aiming at liquidity management for Islamic banks, and for which a tripartite Memorandum of understanding was signed earlier between the Government of Qatar, the IDB and the Dallah Al Baraka Group.

(Albawaba / 19 June 2012)

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