Development Bank of Southern Africa
Strategy
To pursue the foregoing, the DBSA follows the following strategy:
- Focuses on public and private sector commercially viable infrastructure projects that enhance regional development and regional integration, which
- Support key and leading economic growth sectors
- Development of capital markets to support domestic mobilization and local currency funding, by
- Bringing regional focus and local expertise into the development process, and
- Forging strategic partnerships for the mobilization of resources
Focus
The Promotion of economic development and growth, human resources development, institutional capacity building and the support of development projects and programmes in the SADC Region.
Instruments
The DBSA uses the following instruments to implement its strategy:
- Direct investment through loans and equity
- Syndication, arranging and underwriting
- Public/Private Sector facilitation
- Technical and project preparation assistance
- Agency functions
- Capacity building
- Development information
- Guarantees
- Policy research, analysis and investment
Major Achievements
- Has provided 1,815 loans to 354 borrowers, represented by
- Local government – 46%; Companies – 15%, Public Utilities 14% and Parastatals – 11%, and categorized in the following sectors
- Water 30.8%; Energy 20.6%; Commercial 12.8%; Roads 12.3%; Sanitation 5.7%; Social 4.5%, Residential 4.4%; and education 2.7%
- Cumulative loan book is $6.1 billion