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The IDB Country Office of Barbados is supporting the country’s goal of fully transitioning to renewable energy while fostering fiscal sustainability, safeguarding social outcomes, and promoting higher productivity and competitiveness to enhance the country’s growth potential.

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Portrait of Carina Cockburn, IDB Country Representative for Barbados
Carina Cockburn
IDB Country Representative in Barbados
[email protected]

 

Overview

 

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) operates in Barbados through appointed governors who represent the country on the Board of Governors

For daily operations at the Bank's Washington, D.C. headquarters, Barbados shares a chair on the Board of Executive Directors with Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. This chair is led by an executive director elected to a three-year term by the governors of these countries.

Barbados' representatives at the IDB

Executive Director: Navita Anganu

ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):

  • Quinton Charles Lamont Lightbourne

ELECTED BY: Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago

Total Contribution: 3,976,690

Number of votes: 19,441

of the institution's ownership

Address: "Hythe" Welches Maxwell Main Road BB17068

Christ Church Barbados
 

P.O. Box 402 Bridgetown BB11000

Barbados
 

Phone number: (1-246) 627-8500

E-mail:  [email protected]
 

Barbados Expands MSMEs' Access to Financing with US$50 Million IDB Loan
WASHINGTON — Barbados is enhancing access to finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) through a US$50 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This program, supported under the IDB’s Flexible Financing Facility, aims to stimulate productive investments...
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Aug 11, 2025
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04:30 AM - 01:30 PM
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Aug 21, 2025
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12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
United States of America - Outro
Aug 25 - 27, 2025
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04:00 AM - 01:30 PM
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Coastal development and conservation in Barbados
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Updated Nationally Determined Contribution of Barbados (NDC) 2021
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The work of the Inter-American Development Bank in Barbados: development with impact
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Strategy and Projects

The IDB country strategy with Barbados for the 2025-2030 period aims to accelerate progress towards inclusive growth and resilience. The strategy is structured around three pillars that are mutually reinforcing:

  1. Further revitalize the economy and promote inclusive sustainable growth.
  2. Enhance social resilience to thrive in a changing world.
  3. Build climate resilience and promote energy transformation.

While the first pillar focuses on unlocking economic growth through higher productivity, the second and third pillars aim to build resilience. Increased resilience enhances the ability to withstand shocks, thereby mitigating the impact of economic downturns. 

In addition, the country strategy includes three cross-cutting themes to be mainstreamed in the interventions, which are promoting gender equality and diversity, boosting innovation, and strengthening institutional capacity.

Country strategies remain valid for one year beyond the stated period, as they remain active throughout the preparation of the following strategy.   

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IDB Group Country Strategy with Barbados 2025-2030
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Project Number Sector Subsector Project Title Financing Project Status Approval Date
BA-T1124 SOCIAL INVESTMENT POVERTY ALLEVIATION Support for Digital Transformation of the Ministry of People Empowerment in Barbados 250,000.00 Preparation
BA-T1129 WATER AND SANITATION WATER SUPPLY URBAN Support for the Preparation and Execution of the Mains Replacement and Non-Revenue Water Reduction Program in Barbados 400,000.00 Preparation
BA-T1131 SOCIAL INVESTMENT LABOR INTERMEDIATION SYSTEMS Support to the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Third Sector for the Promotion of Green and Blue Jobs and Just Transition in Barbados 460,000.00 Preparation
BA-L1068 ENERGY LOW-CARBON ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Energy Storage and Capacity Strengthening Program - Preparation
TC7703053 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Prepar. of a Rural Development Project 300,000.00 Closed Nov. 23, 1977
TC9003493 - - Bridgetown Bypass Roads Improv. Project 28,000.00 Closed Jun. 13, 1990
TC8006159 TRANSPORT RURAL ROADS Access Road for Industrial Zones 780,000.00 Closed Mar. 18, 1981
TC9108110 REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE REFORM AND PUBLIC SECTOR SUPPORT Tax Administration 25,000.00 Closed Sep. 17, 1991
BA-T1124 Support for Digital Transformation of the Ministry of People Empowerment in Barbados
  • Sector: SOCIAL INVESTMENT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 250,000.00
BA-T1129 Support for the Preparation and Execution of the Mains Replacement and Non-Revenue Water Reduction Program in Barbados
  • Sector: WATER AND SANITATION
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 400,000.00
BA-T1131 Support to the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Third Sector for the Promotion of Green and Blue Jobs and Just Transition in Barbados
  • Sector: SOCIAL INVESTMENT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 460,000.00
BA-L1068 Energy Storage and Capacity Strengthening Program
  • Sector: ENERGY
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
TC7703053 Prepar. of a Rural Development Project
  • Sector: AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Nov. 23, 1977
  • Financing: 300,000.00
TC9003493 Bridgetown Bypass Roads Improv. Project
  • Sector: -
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Jun. 13, 1990
  • Financing: 28,000.00
TC8006159 Access Road for Industrial Zones
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Mar. 18, 1981
  • Financing: 780,000.00
TC9108110 Tax Administration
  • Sector: REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Sep. 17, 1991
  • Financing: 25,000.00
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Country Office
Portrait of Carina Cockburn, IDB Country Representative for Barbados
Carina Cockburn
IDB Country Representative in Barbados
[email protected]

 

Overview

 

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) operates in Barbados through appointed governors who represent the country on the Board of Governors

For daily operations at the Bank's Washington, D.C. headquarters, Barbados shares a chair on the Board of Executive Directors with Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. This chair is led by an executive director elected to a three-year term by the governors of these countries.

Barbados' representatives at the IDB

Executive Director: Navita Anganu

ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):

  • Quinton Charles Lamont Lightbourne

ELECTED BY: Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago

Total Contribution: 3,976,690

Number of votes: 19,441

of the institution's ownership

Address: "Hythe" Welches Maxwell Main Road BB17068

Christ Church Barbados
 

P.O. Box 402 Bridgetown BB11000

Barbados
 

Phone number: (1-246) 627-8500

E-mail:  [email protected]
 

Barbados Expands MSMEs' Access to Financing with US$50 Million IDB Loan
WASHINGTON — Barbados is enhancing access to finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) through a US$50 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This program, supported under the IDB’s Flexible Financing Facility, aims to stimulate productive investments...
IDB Lab Opens Call for STEM Startups to Expand Their Access to Capital
IDB Lab, the innovation and venture capital arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group), has launched a call for participants in its Women STEMpreneurs Competition to fund women-led startups in Latin America and the Caribbean. The thirteenth edition of the regional competition will...
IDB and Caribbean Governors Discuss Reforms and Initiatives for Impact and Scale
Governors agree on next steps for ONE Caribbean regional integration program. NASSAU, The Bahamas – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) held its XIII Annual Consultation with the governors of Caribbean member countries on February 2-3 in Nassau, The Bahamas. The gathering was part of...
Be the first to find out about the IDB news in Barbados!
Subscribe
Aug 11, 2025
Connecting Care: Government-to-Government Learning Forum
04:30 AM - 01:30 PM
Mexico - Cidade do México
Aug 21, 2025
Code4Dev | Learn to Implement the Open Source Tool OpenCRVS
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
United States of America - Outro
Aug 25 - 27, 2025
Focus on the Americas at World Water Week 2025
04:00 AM - 01:30 PM
Sweden - Estocolmo
Coastal development and conservation in Barbados
Learn More
Updated Nationally Determined Contribution of Barbados (NDC) 2021
Learn More
Partnering for a Resilient Caribbean
Learn More
The work of the Inter-American Development Bank in Barbados: development with impact
Learn More
Axes for an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive regional integration in the Americas
Learn More
Urban development: from emerging to sustainable cities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Learn More
What does it mean to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean? Development with impact
Learn More
Strategy and Projects

The IDB country strategy with Barbados for the 2025-2030 period aims to accelerate progress towards inclusive growth and resilience. The strategy is structured around three pillars that are mutually reinforcing:

  1. Further revitalize the economy and promote inclusive sustainable growth.
  2. Enhance social resilience to thrive in a changing world.
  3. Build climate resilience and promote energy transformation.

While the first pillar focuses on unlocking economic growth through higher productivity, the second and third pillars aim to build resilience. Increased resilience enhances the ability to withstand shocks, thereby mitigating the impact of economic downturns. 

In addition, the country strategy includes three cross-cutting themes to be mainstreamed in the interventions, which are promoting gender equality and diversity, boosting innovation, and strengthening institutional capacity.

Country strategies remain valid for one year beyond the stated period, as they remain active throughout the preparation of the following strategy.   

hands
IDB Group Country Strategy with Barbados 2025-2030
Download
Project Number Sector Subsector Project Title Financing Project Status Approval Date
BA-T1124 SOCIAL INVESTMENT POVERTY ALLEVIATION Support for Digital Transformation of the Ministry of People Empowerment in Barbados 250,000.00 Preparation
BA-T1129 WATER AND SANITATION WATER SUPPLY URBAN Support for the Preparation and Execution of the Mains Replacement and Non-Revenue Water Reduction Program in Barbados 400,000.00 Preparation
BA-T1131 SOCIAL INVESTMENT LABOR INTERMEDIATION SYSTEMS Support to the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Third Sector for the Promotion of Green and Blue Jobs and Just Transition in Barbados 460,000.00 Preparation
BA-L1068 ENERGY LOW-CARBON ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Energy Storage and Capacity Strengthening Program - Preparation
TC8101157 TRANSPORT TRANSPORT Strength., Ministry of Transport & Works 470,000.00 Closed Dec. 16, 1981
TC9301160 - - Ppf Ba0012: Investment Sector Program 150,000.00 Closed Jan. 29, 1993
TC7508015 HEALTH HEALTH SERVICES Health Services Studies 122,000.00 Closed Sep. 11, 1975
TC8904428 - - Inst.streng. of Coastal Conservation 500,000.00 Closed Jul. 12, 1989
BA-T1124 Support for Digital Transformation of the Ministry of People Empowerment in Barbados
  • Sector: SOCIAL INVESTMENT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 250,000.00
BA-T1129 Support for the Preparation and Execution of the Mains Replacement and Non-Revenue Water Reduction Program in Barbados
  • Sector: WATER AND SANITATION
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 400,000.00
BA-T1131 Support to the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Third Sector for the Promotion of Green and Blue Jobs and Just Transition in Barbados
  • Sector: SOCIAL INVESTMENT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 460,000.00
BA-L1068 Energy Storage and Capacity Strengthening Program
  • Sector: ENERGY
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
TC8101157 Strength., Ministry of Transport & Works
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Dec. 16, 1981
  • Financing: 470,000.00
TC9301160 Ppf Ba0012: Investment Sector Program
  • Sector: -
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Jan. 29, 1993
  • Financing: 150,000.00
TC7508015 Health Services Studies
  • Sector: HEALTH
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Sep. 11, 1975
  • Financing: 122,000.00
TC8904428 Inst.streng. of Coastal Conservation
  • Sector: -
  • Project Status: Closed
  • Approval Date: Jul. 12, 1989
  • Financing: 500,000.00
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