ADFIAP's Asia-Pacific Institute of Development Finance (IDF) conducts regular training and capacity-building activities under two types: full or partially subsidized and fee-based. Programs which are fully or partially subsidized are organized and implemented with donor-institutions providing grants and technical assistance. Those on fee basis are conducted in partnership with known and reputable learning institutions from around the world.

The Asia-Pacific Institute of Development Finance (IDF) is the professional training and career service center of ADFIAP. It is backed by 30 years of experience and expertise in organizing training programs, seminars, and conferences around the world through the Association, its members, and international affiliates. It has in its training portfolio, a variety of subjects in development banking and management, a worldwide network of resource persons and experts, and a respectable collection of teaching materials and case studies.

The IDF is managed by the Programs & Services Unit of the Association. Its officers and staff have a combined international training experience of over 50 years in training needs assessment, design and delivery, conference and training events organizing, and human resource management. It has a worldwide reach of over a hundred training managers who provide consulting and advisory services to the Institute.

To ensure effectiveness and relevance of the training programs, IDF utilizes a faculty and facilitator composed of carefully-selected professors and management experts from the Asia-Pacific Region.

IDF works through ADFIAP members' learning center and with other international organizations with which it shares similar development objectives. Most of the training courses are conducted in members' and/or partner-institutions around the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world. Partnering arrangements with other educational institutes, associations, and training centers are carefully undertaken on the basis of reputation, synergy and performance.

• Asian Bankers Association (ABA)


• Asian Development Bank (ADB)


• Asian Institute of Management (AIM)


• Association of Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS)


• Association of Development Finance Institution in Malaysia (ADFIM)


• Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)


• Development Bank of Japan (DBJ)


• Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP)


• European Commission (EU)


• Institute of Public Service International of the University of Connecticut (IPSI/UConn)


• International Finance Corporation (IFC)


• International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO


• InWEnt - Capacity Building International, Germany


• Indonesian Banking Development Institute (LPPI)


• Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Development Banking (JNIDB)


• Pakistan Development Banking Institute (PDBI)


• University of Asia and the Pacific


• United Nations Development Programme


• United Nationals Industrial Development Organization


• United States Agency for International Development


• United States-Asia Environmental Partnership


• World Association of Trainers Development


• World Bank Institute


• World Federation of Development Finance Institutions

Human resource development, specifically training, is one the strengths of the Association. ADFIAP, through its Asia-Pacific Institute of Development Finance, has organized over a hundred conferences, symposia, and seminars not only in the Asia-Pacific region but in Europe and North America as well, notably Germany, the U.S. and Canada. These events were mostly in collaboration with international organizations, among others, the World Bank Institute, the German Foundation for International Development (now InWEnt), the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the USAID, the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (now AusAid), the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (ITC), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the ADB, etc. The ADFIAP Secretary General is an international training specialist himself.

The other strength of ADFIAP is in research and publication. The Association regularly publishes the Journal of Development Finance, a compilation of technical papers and studies on related subjects in the field of development finance, the ADFIAP Newsletter, and many others. Research studies and surveys of over 50 subjects have been published so far. ADFIAP has also produced volumes of case studies and training packages on project appraisal, supervision, and rehabilitation, joint ventures, trade finance, environmental due diligence, corporate governance, socially-responsible investment, entrepreneurship, etc.

As of December 2005, ADFIAP has trained more than a thousand officers and staff of its members-institutions various programs, as follows:

ADFIAP’S CAREER CREDENTIALING PROGRAM (ACCP)
 
The ACCP is a process of accrediting and recognizing the professional competence of a development banker.

The credentialing program covers the professional staff of development banks and financial institutions engaged in the financing of development, of members of ADFIAP, or any other development banking association with which the ADFIAP has a working agreement.

The Asia-Pacific Institute of Development Finance (IDF), ADFIAP’s training and career development center, is the credentialing unit of the Association.

There are three (3) levels of credentials for the professional and managerial staff of DFIs, as follows:

• Level 1 – Associate in Development Banking (ADB)
• Level 2 – Affiliate in Development Bank Management (ADBM) and
• Level 3 – Fellow in Development Banking (FIDB)

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The objective of this project was to establish national courses on development financing in selected countries of the region; and to improve the training capabilities of 15 member-DFIs. The following activities were undertaken:

• Case Development Workshop (December 1985, Manila): Developed case studies and training materials.
• Faculty Development for the following national development finance courses:



• Indonesian National Course (January and September 1986, Jakarta)
• Pakistan National Course (March and October 1988, Karachi)
• Malaysian National Course (June 1986 and January 1987, Kuala Lumpur)
• Pacific National Course (August 1986, Suva and October 1987, Port Vila)


• Provided training advisory services to 15 DFI member-institutions in Korea, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Egypt and the Pacific Islands.

• Curriculum Design Workshop for a Training Program on Small-Scale Enterprise Financing, September 1978, Manila
• Prototype Course on Financing of Small Industries September 1979, Berlin
• Courses on the Promotion and Financing of Small-Scale Enterprises, conducted annually from 1980 to 1982 in Manila. Co-sponsored with the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP)

• Curriculum Design Workshop on Project Supervision, July 1983, BerIin
• Prototype Course on Project Implementation and Supervision: for Southeast Asian DFls, July-August 1985, Berlin
• Prototype Course on Project Implementation and Supervision: for South Asian DFs, March-April 1986, BerIin
• Pilot Course a Managing Problem Projects, July 1986, Kuala Lumpur. Conducted in cooperation with the Association of DFls of Malaysia (ADFIM)
• Case Development Workshop for Project Supervision Courses July-August 1987, Berlin

• Seminar for Lecturers in Development Banking
  January 1981, Washington, D.C.



• DFI Training Managers Program
  November 1981, Washington, D.C.



• Seminar for DFl Management Trainers
  June 1984, Washington, D.C.



• DFl Personnel Managers Training Program
  February 1983, Washington, D.C.



• Ten (10) Annual Seminars for Trainers in Development Banking (1985 to 1994)
• Regional Symposium on Financial Control, Accounting and Auditing Practices of DFIs, April 1987, Manila. Conducted with ADB



• Seminar-Workshop on Information Development in DFls, March-April 1989, Manila: Conducted with EDI/World Bank (EDI/WB)



• From LDC to NIC: The Role of Private Capital and Entrepreneurs, May 1989, Taipei. Conducted with China Development Corporation (CDC)



• Seminar on the Application of the COMFAR (Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting) Software for Investment Project Preparation and Evaluation, September to October 1989, Manila. Conducted with UNDP/UNIDO



• Senior Policy Seminar for Chief Executives of Development Banks, October 1991, Bangkok, Thailand (EDI/WFDFI)



• Symposium on Opportunities for DFIs in Export Development and Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises, April 1992, Jakarta, Indonesia



• Seminar-Workshop on Public Relations Management for DFls, March 9-13, 1992, Bangkok, Thailand; June 22-26, 1993 Bangi, Selangor, Darul Ehsan, Malaysia; Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 1994, Jakarta, Indonesia



• Symposium on Strategic Human Resources Management for DFIs, September 1991, Manila

A four-year technical assistance program to develop and improve the export financing capability of DFIs, in collaboration with the government of Switzerland and UNDP. The training events under this project were as follows:

• Workshop on the Financial Rehabilitation of Non-Performing Export-Oriented Projects
  
  Manila, September 10-21, 1990
  Bombay, September 16-27, 1991
  Jakarta, November 18-29, 1991
  Colombo, August 19-27, 1992
  Kuala Lumpur, September 6-11, 1993



• Workshop on the Promotion and Financing Export-Oriented Joint Ventures
  
  Seoul, November 5-10, 1990
  Bangkok, July 29-August 2, 1991
  Kuala Lumpur, June 1-4, 1992
  Sydney, October 26-29, 1992
  Manila, March 1-4, 1993



• Workshop on Identification, Development and Financing of Export-Oriented Projects
  
  Fiji, November 26-December 7, 1990
  Malaysia, June 3-14, 1991
  Jakarta, September 29-October 3, 1992
  Karachi, November 21-26, 1992
  Colombo, April 21-27, 1993



• Workshop on Strategic Issues in Training and International Trade
  
  Manila, June 15-19, 1992
  Manila, February 22-26, 1993



• Workshop on Rehabilitation Finance of Export-Oriented Enterprises
  
  Manila, May-June 1987



• Workshop for Senior Project Officers of DFIs on Financing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  
  Manila, November 29-December 1, 1994



• Regional Training the Trainers Workshop on Joint Venture Development
  
  Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, December 5-8, 1994

g.   PROGRAMS WITH JAPAN'S ASSOCIATION FOR OVERSEAS TECHNICAL SCHOLARSHIP

• AOTS Top Management Seminar on Japanese Business (TOPS-8)
  Yokohama, Japan, August 25-29, 1992



• AOTS Executive Program on Corporate Management for Organization (EPCM)
  Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, 1993



• AOTS Top Management Seminar on Japanese Business for ADFIAP (ADTP)
  Yokohama, Japan, January 8-13, 1996



• AOTS Top Management Seminar for ADFIAP (ADTP)
  Yokohama, Japan, January 29-Feb. 4, 1997



• AOTS Top Management Seminar for ADFIAP (ADTP)
  Yokohama, Japan, January 19-23, 1998



• AOTS Middle Management Seminar for ADFIAP and ITC
  Yokohama, Japan, November 2-6, 1998



• AOTS Middle Management Seminar for ADFIAP and ITC
  Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 28-March 10, 2000



• SME Finance for Asia-Pacific
  Tokyo, Japan, October 4-15, 2004

h.   PROGRAMS WITH GERMANY'S CAPACITY BUILDING INTERNATIONAL (INWENT)

• Regional Seminar-Workshop on Strategies for Financing Lasting Development in the Asia-Pacific Region, Manila, Philippines,July 22-26, 2003



• Seminar-Workshop on Strategies for Financing Lasting Development in India, Mumbai, India,December 10-12, 2003



• Strategies for Financing Sustainable Development, Bangkok, Thailand, July 13-15, 2005



• Strategies for Financing Sustainable Development: Triple Bottom Line Investing, JakartaIndonesia, August 24-25, 2005

i.    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PROGRAMS WITH THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE (CIPE), AN AFFILIATE OF THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

“DFIs Corporate Governance” Project

            Phase I    -     “Good Corporate Governance for DFIs”
                                 Manila, Philippines (February 10-14, 2003)
                                 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (April 1-2, 2003)
                                 Rarotonga, Cook Islands (August 13, 2003)
                                 Beijing, China (August 20, 2003)
                                 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (September 15, 2003)
                                 Hyderabad, India (December 8-9, 2003)
                                 Bangkok, Thailand (April 1-2, 2004)

            Phase II   -     “Enhancing Corporate Governance in DFIs”
                                 Manila, Philippines (October 18-22, 2004)
                                 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (December 6-7, 2004)
                                 Karachi, Pakistan (December 9-11, 2004)
                                 Suva, Fiji (May 9-11, 2005)
                                 Hanoi, Vietnam (June 6-7, 2005)

            Phase III  -     “Compliance Officership Program”
                                 Manila, Philippines (December 12-16, 2005)
                                 Hyderabad, India (February 2-4, 2006)
                                 Koror, Palau (May 19, 2006)
                                 Siem Reap, Cambodia (July 3-4, 2006)
                                 Sabah, Malaysia (July 25-26, 2006)

j.    PROGRAMS WITH THE U.S-ASIA ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIP (US-AEP), AN INITIATIVE OF THE USAID

• Competitive Advantage through Environmental Risk Management: Training the Trainers for Banking Institutions
  Manila, Philippines, July 11-13, 2000



• International Seminar-Workshop on Environmental Management and Due Diligence
  Manila Philippines, December 3-7, 2001



• Seminar-Workshop on Enhancing Environmental Governance in Financial Institutions in Asia and the Pacific
  Bangkok, Thailand, July-28-August 1, 2003

j.    INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

• 1997 - Manila, Philippines
  

l.    ASIA-PACIFIC BANKERS CONGRESS WITH THE ASIAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION, THE LARGEST COMMERCIAL BANKERS GROUP IN ASIA & THE PACIFIC

• 1998 - Manila, Philippines
• 1999 - Manila, Philippines
• 2000 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 2001 - Bangkok, Thailand

m.  ADFIAP ANNUAL CONFERENCES AROUND THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

• 1978, 1st ADFIAP Annual Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
  Theme: Rising Cost of Investment for Development in the Region



• 1979, 2nd Annual Conference in Manila, Philippines
  Theme: Challenges Confronting DFIs in Asia and the Pacific in the 1980s



• 1980, 3rd Annual Conference in Manila, Philippines
  Theme: Diversification of DFIs Operations and Services



• 1981, 4th Annual Conference in Sydney, Australia
  Theme: The Roles of DFIs in Technology Transfer & ADFIAP Strategy for Management and Professional Development



• 1982, 5th Annual Conference in Manila, Philippines
  Theme: The Role of funding Strategies of DFIs in a Changing Economic and Financial Environment



• 1983, 6th Annual Conference in Bali, Indonesia
  Theme: Critical Issues on Project Management and Supervision Under Recessionary Conditions



• 1984, 7th ADFIAP Annual Conference in New Delhi, India
  Theme: Strengthening DFI and Client Services to Meet New Challenges



• 1985, 8th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Istanbul, Turkey
  Theme: Strengthening DFIs' Management Structure Amidst the Impact of Changes in the Economic and Social Environment



• 1986, 9th Annual Conference in Auckland, New Zealand
  Theme: The DFI Responses to the Emerging Imperatives in the Financing of Development in Asia-Pacific



• 1987, 10th Annual Conference in Manila, Philippines
  Theme: Accessing Capital Markets by DFIs - Risk and Benefits



• 1988, 11th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada
  Theme: Strengthening the Management of DFI Portfolios



• 1989, 12th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Taipei, China
  Theme: Agenda for Development Financing in the 1990s



• 1990, 13th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Kuala, Lumpur Malaysia
  Theme: DFIs and National Development



• 1991, 14th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Seoul Korea
  Theme: DFIs Responses to the New Challenges of Development Financing in the Asia-Pacific Region



• 1992, 15th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia
  Theme: Excellence in Development Banking: Challenges, Strategies and Experiences



• 1993, 16th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  Theme: DFIs: Breaking New Ground in the Financing of Development in the Asia Pacific Region



• 1994, 17th Annual Conference in Karachi, Pakistan
  Theme: Maximizing DFI Resources and Capabilities for the 21st Century: Issues Problems, and Directions



• 1995, 18th Annual Conference in Sydney, Australia
  Theme: Enhancing DFI Competitiveness & Service Excellence Through Innovative Banking Technology



• 1996, 19th Annual Conference in Phuket, Thailand
  Theme: New Business Opportunities and Challenges for Development Banks



• 1997, 20th Annual Conference in Manila Philippines
  Theme: New Challenges, New Opportunities in Financing Development and Trade in the Asia Pacific Region in the New World Trade



• 1998, 21st ADFIAP Annual Conference in Istanbul, Turkey
  Theme: The Lessons of the Asian Financial Crisis and the Role of Development Banks



• 1999, 22nd ADFIAP Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Theme: The DFI and its Business: Trends and Issues Concerning Bank Operation



• 2000, 23rd Annual Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal
  Theme: Development Banking in the New Millennium



• 2001, 24th Annual Conference in Tokyo Japan
  Theme: The DFIs' Relationship with the Government and Market/Risk Management



• 2002, 25th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Beijing, China
  Theme: Revisiting the Development Banking Philosophy in Asia and the Pacific: A Call for the Times



• 2003, 26th ADFIAP Annual Conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  Theme: Critical Issues in Development Banking in the New Environment



• 2004, 27th Annual Conference in Almaty, Kazahkstan
  Theme: "Sustainable Development Finance: Issues & Future Directions"



• 2005, 28th Annual Conference in Nadi, Fiji
  Theme: "DFIs: Investing into the Future"



• 2006, 29th Annual Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  Theme: "DFI’s: Are They Sustainable?/Opportunities in Sustainable Investments”