Following approval by its Board of Directors today, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has released an update of its Corporate Strategy, providing a forward-looking blueprint designed to guide the Bank through its growth phase to 2030. Under the updated strategy, AIIB aims to:
- Double its annual financing ambition to reach USD17 billion in 2030, with balanced support for sovereign and nonsovereign clients and greater direct mobilization of private capital.
- Maximize climate impact, targeting over 50% of its own financing to climate-related investments annually, with total climate finance exceeding USD50 billion over the Strategy period.
- Strengthen regional cooperation and connectivity, with 25-30% of financing supporting cross-border connectivity projects by 2030.
- Enhance development impact, supporting Members in achieving their development objectives such as emissions reduction, gender equality and other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To reinforce accountability for delivering results, a dedicated project completion success indicator has been added to the Corporate Scorecard that will assess AIIB’s performance in achieving the intended development outcomes.
Following a comprehensive mid-term review, the updates ensure the strategy remains adaptive to a rapidly evolving global landscape, grounded in AIIB’s growing operational experience, and aligned with the changing needs of its clients. The refresh also contains refinements to the Corporate Scorecard to align with AIIB’s increased ambitions and enable more effective performance monitoring.
These strategic refinements position AIIB to respond more effectively to today’s pressing global challenges. They also reinforce AIIB’s commitment to ensuring that its projects and investments unlock opportunities for present and future generations, ensuring long-term benefits and sustainable growth. The updated strategy will guide AIIB through the next five years, serving not just as a reaffirmation of its vision, but as a renewed call to action – to scale up ambition, deepen partnerships, and broaden impact.
AIIB President Jin Liqun said: “We aim to deploy another USD75 billion by 2030 to narrow the infrastructure financing gap — but our ambition goes beyond dollar figures. We want to make investments in infrastructure to have an impact not only for today’s communities but also for future generations. Together with our Members, clients and partners, we will continue to build Infrastructure for Tomorrow: infrastructure that is green, inclusive resilient and future-proof. In doing so, we will ensure that AIIB remains a trustworthy partner for infrastructure development and a steward of sustainability for decades to come.”
The update preserves AIIB’s core values of lean, clean and green, and affirms AIIB’s steadfast commitment to sustainability by requiring all investments to be:
- Financially and economically sustainable, generating positive economic returns and not worsening a Member's debt situation. AIIB ensures this through economic and financial analyses for all investments.
- Socially sustainable and inclusive. Projects should have no negative impacts, direct or indirect, especially on displaced people, vulnerable groups and community health and safety. Social sustainability promotes inclusive access to project benefits for all citizens irrespective of age, gender, location, ethnicity and other socioeconomic characteristics, particularly for those who are often marginalized, vulnerable or excluded from access to such services.
- Environmentally sustainable. Projects should have no negative impacts, direct or indirect, on the physical and biological environment such as water and air quality, biodiversity, local pollution, climate change and land and water use. Environmental and social sustainability is assured through AIIB’s Environmental and Social Framework, which reflects good international practices.
These three arms of sustainability form the foundation for the Strategy’s mission of “Financing Infrastructure for Tomorrow” (i4t) which remains unchanged. The dynamic concept of i4T ensures that what is built today serves future generations.
AIIB will continue to work in partnership with peer multilateral development banks, other development partners, international institutions, think tanks, civil society and philanthropic organizations to achieve its mission. The Bank, coming up to its 10th year anniversary, will continue to ordinarily add value through its four thematic priorities of green infrastructure, connectivity and regional cooperation, technology-enabled infrastructure, and private capital mobilization. These priorities guide the Bank’s investment decisions in addressing the evolving needs of its Members.
The strategy will be operationalized through the Bank’s annual Business Plan and Budget, which turns the high-level objectives of the strategy into annual business indicators.
The strategy update has benefited from stakeholder consultations conducted with shareholders, partners, clients, technical experts and AIIB staff.
