Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific

The Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific, formerly Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR), was established in May 2000 to provide grants for projects supporting poverty reduction and related social development activities that can add value to projects financed by ADB. In 2010, the fund expanded its scope by providing technical assistance in addition to project grants. Apart from poverty reduction, the enhanced JFPR focuses on universal health coverage, climate change and disaster risk management, quality infrastructure investment, and public finance management, as among the new priority areas.

The JFPR helps ADB developing member countries’ resiliency from ongoing crises and enhance preparedness for the next. It is positioned as the next-level work to help lift remaining poor populations from the poverty threshold and bring everyone on a sustainable path to prosperity and resilience, building on the achievement and the momentum of the past 2 decades and further increasing JFPR’s development impact.

In 2023, at the 56th ADB Annual Meeting, ADB launched the JFPR flagship publication, 2 Decades of Poverty Reduction and Partnership: The Story of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, 2000–2021, which chronicles the fund’s response to the region’s evolving needs.