SECTOR POLICIES AND SECTOR FRAMEWORK DOCUMENTS

Our lending is guided by policies and frameworks that apply to economic sectors or special areas listed below.

Public Consultation 

• Modernization of the IDB's Environmental and Social Policies

Multisectoral Policies

• Environment and Safeguards Compliance and Guidelines
• Natural Disaster Risk Management and Guidelines
• Public Utilities 
• Involuntary Resettlement and Guidelines
• Gender Equality in Development and Guidelines
• Indigenous Peoples and Guidelines

Sector Framework Documents

• Agriculture and Natural Resource Management 
• Education and Early Childhood Development 
• Integration and Trade 
• Urban Development and Housing 
• Health and Nutrition 
• Labor 
• Transportation 
• Support to SMEs and Financial Access/Supervision 
• Citizen Security and Justice 
• Tourism 
• Social Protection and Poverty 
• Water and Sanitation 
• Innovation, Science and Technology 
• Gender and Diversity 
• Decentralization and Subnational Governments
• Environment and Biodiversity 
• Food Security 
• Climate Change
• Energy
• Fiscal Policy and Management
• Early Childhood Development
• Transparency and Anti-Corruption

* The operational policies of the Inter-American Development Bank are intended to provide operational guidance to staff in assisting the Bank's borrowing member countries. Over the course of the Bank's more than 50 years of operations, the approach to developing operational policies has taken various forms, the most recent reflected in the Report on the Ninth General Capital Increase.