African Development Bank (AfDB)
Sovereign lending, non-sovereign private-sector operations, blended-finance and grants supporting food security, agro-industrial zones, and health cold chains across all African regional member countries.
We did not find a standard amount range published by African Development Bank (AfDB) (checked 26 October 2026), so none is shown. Approved amounts for individual projects are listed on the official portal linked below.
- ·Sovereign loans
- ·Non-sovereign private-sector loans
- ·Equity
- ·Guarantees
- ·ADF grants (low-income countries)
Follows AfDB Procurement Framework (2015, as amended). Uses Open Competitive Bidding for high-value equipment, with Country Procurement Systems allowed for lower-risk items. Notices publish on the AfDB tender portal and dgMarket.
- ·Ministries and state agencies of regional member countries
- ·Agro-industrial special economic zones
- ·Private agri-processors and cold-chain operators
- ·Regional integration bodies (COMESA, ECOWAS, SADC members)
- ·Agro-industrial Special Processing Zones (SAPZ) with integrated cold storage
- ·Port and airport perishable cargo terminals
- ·Rural cold-chain hubs and mobile pre-cooling units
- ·Regional vaccine and pharmaceutical distribution networks
- Organize the buyer's cold-chain requirement into one reviewed project brief, including any local-content or origin rules the buyer states
- For private operators and awarded contractors, contact suitable suppliers on the buyer's behalf and present organized responses
- The borrower or implementing agency stays responsible for AfDB procurement rules and bidding documents
- ColdMatch does not bid, lend or act as a tender adviser; with the buyer's consent, a qualified project may be introduced to independent financing partners
Send us the scope, capacity and country. Our team reviews the requirement first; where the project qualifies (from USD 250,000), we contact suitable suppliers on your behalf and present organized responses. We do not bid in, or advise on, the institution's own tenders. No cost to the buyer.
How financing fits into a African Development Bank (AfDB)-linked cold-chain project
ColdMatch Group is an industrial cold-chain procurement platform. We are not a lender, we do not provide financial advice, and we are not affiliated with or acting for African Development Bank (AfDB). What we do is help buyers organize the technical requirement — capacity, temperature regime, equipment lots, standards and BOQ — so our team can contact suitable suppliers and EPC contractors on the buyer's behalf. Projects are reviewed by our team before any supplier is contacted; with the buyer's consent, a qualified project may also be introduced to independent financing partners.
African Development Bank (AfDB)-linked project: loan terms, interest and repayments
Enter your own assumptions to see what a capital structure costs over the life of the facility. Development finance and concessional facilities usually carry longer tenors, a construction grace period and lower margins than commercial bank debt; equipment leasing sits at the shorter, more expensive end. Use it to test whether the project's expected earnings can carry the debt service before you approach any institution.
Other donor pathways
- World Bank GroupIBRD / IDA sovereign lending for cold-chain, food security and health supply chains.
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)Private-sector cold-chain, agribusiness and pharma cold storage financing across emerging markets.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)UN-agency procurement of cold-chain equipment for food security, health and climate resilience.
- Gavi, the Vaccine AllianceUnder Gavi 6.0 (2026–2030), vaccine cold chain equipment is funded from each country's single Cash Budget; the earlier CCEOP platform ran from 2016 to 2025.
- UNICEF Supply DivisionProcures vaccine cold chain equipment and services for governments and partners, and is the standard procurement agency for Gavi-funded cold chain equipment.