The Access to Information Policy is an instrument approved by the IDB’s Board and designed to raise the Bank's standards of transparency to the highest level of international practices, thereby allowing greater accountability in the execution of its projects and activities.
The IDB participates in many transparency initiatives and activities that relate to the Access to Information agenda.
The IDB has achieved second place among 50 development organizations and aid donors evaluated in the 2024 Aid Transparency Index.
This marks an improvement from the 2022 edition of the ranking, where IDB secured third place.
The Bank’s score of 96.3/100 reflects its high marks in all five areas of evaluation of its sovereign-lending portfolio: finance and budgets, joining-up development data, project attributes, performance, and organizational planning and commitments.
Transparency and anti-corruption are important instruments for the IDB to achieve its goal to reduce poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Bank addresses these issues in two ways: through good governance mechanisms and working closely with countries to strengthen governance, enforce the rule of law, and fight corruption at both local and national levels.
The DFI Transparency Index is a comparative measure of the transparency of the world’s leading Development Finance Institutions (DFIs).
The International Development Statistics (IDS) online databases cover bilateral, multilateral aid (ODA) and private providers’ aid and other resource flows to developing countries.
The open data portal of the IDB, which allows the Bank's data on social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean to be explored, visualized and reused.
An initiative that provides a platform to share open-source software and other resources and to connect with diverse collaborators who support the vision that software is a public good.
The IDB publishes on a monthly basis updated IATI datasets covering sovereign-guaranteed loan operations approved since 2004.
In "Abierto al Público" blog the IDB develops and posts articles that explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
