Four Major Types
6.1 Procedures for withdrawal of loan proceeds are standardized to facilitate
disbursements under most loans. There are four major types of disbursement
procedure, described briefly as follows:
direct payment procedure, where the Asian Development Bank (ADB), at the
borrower’s
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request, pays a designated beneficiary directly (Chapter 7);
commitment procedure, where ADB, at the borrower’s request, provides an
irrevocable undertaking to reimburse a commercial bank for payments made
or to be made to a supplier against a letter of credit (LC) financed from the loan
account (Chapter 8);
reimbursement procedure, where ADB pays from the loan account to the
borrower’s account for eligible expenditures which have been incurred and paid
for by the project out of its budget allocation or its own resources (Chapter 9);
and
imprest fund procedure, where ADB makes an advance disbursement from the
loan account for deposit to an imprest account to be used exclusively for ADB’s
share of eligible expenditures (Chapter 10).
Simplified Documentation under the Reimbursement Procedure
6.2 While normally ADB requires submission of full supporting documentation, there are
special cases where it accepts simplified documentation procedures:
the statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure involves the borrower submitting
a SOE to support an application (Sections 9.9–9.25), and
the force account works procedure involves the borrower submitting periodic
certification of the progress or completion of civil works in support of its
application for reimbursement (Sections 9.26–9.30).
commercial bank for payments made or to be made to a supplier against
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