In keeping with its mandate, DBN seeks to provide finance to enterprises and initiatives that will have optimum development benefit, while giving prudent consideration to viability, and environmental and social impact.

Economic goals

• Employment creation
• Income generation
• Stimulation of key sectors (particularly manufacturing, transport and logistics, and tourism and hospitality)
• Alleviation of national issues (particularly provision of land, affordable housing and generation of electricity)
• Inclusive economic participation
• Diversification of regional economic activity
• Development of infrastructure

Environmental and social management

DBN manages its finance proactively and on an ongoing basis to ensure that its finance has no negative social and environmental impact.

Sustainability

DBN assesses finance to ensure that it does not pose a risk to the owners of projects that it finances, and to ensure that it can recover capital investments and grow its capital to lend onwards to others.

Viability

Project are evaluated on the basis of: