Friday, 20 June 2014

Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA)

DBSA


"Company Profile

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is a state owned entity with the purpose of accelerating sustainable socio-economic development and improve the quality of life of the people of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by driving financial and non-financial investments in the social and economic infrastructure sectors 
  • Social infrastructure: Infrastructure aimed at addressing backlogs and expediting the delivery of essential social services to support sustainable living conditions and a better quality of life within communities 
  • Economic infrastructure: Infrastructure aimed at addressing capacity constraints and bottlenecks in order to optimise economic growth potential
The DBSA has prioritised water, energy, transport and ICT as its key focus areas.

Mandate

The Government through Act. 13 of 1997 mandated the DBSA to: 
  • Promote economic development and growth, human resources development and institutional capacity in the region 
  • Support sustainable development projects and programmes in the region 
  • Focus on infrastructure and leverage the private sector...."
http://www.dbsa.org/EN/Pages/default.aspx 

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