Internal documents prepared by ADB staff or Management, including initial negotiating positions and committee deliberations, internal staff memoranda, minutes and summaries of discussions at Board meeting…draft documents and documents circulated to Board committees, and other related documents (e.g., aide memoirs and decisions, deliberations and minutes of departmental committees, such as the consultant selection committee and procurement committee) are generally classified as Confidential and not disclosed to the public.

There is no mention of the subcommittees in the AfDB's disclosure policy.

These documents are reports “by the chairs of the committees of the Board of Executive Directors on the committees’ discussions of operational and sector policies, sector strategies, IDB Country Strategies, HIPC documents, PRSPs and I-PRSPs…” Reports are disclosed at the same time the document under discussion is made available to the public.

“Proceedings of the Board of Directors and its committees are, under the Board’s Rules of Procedure, confidential. Thus, unless disclosure is approved by the Board, documents prepared for the consideration or review and approval of the Directors… are not publicly available.”

“Records of internal deliberative processes [are confidential information] except to the extent that the Board of Executive Directors determines they should be made public.”

There is no mention of subcommittee summaries in the disclosure policy.