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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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Country Office

The Bank’s Country Strategy with Barbados for the 2019-2023 period focuses on three areas of engagement:

(i) fostering fiscal sustainability and a more efficient public sector;

(ii) safeguarding social outcomes; and

(iii) promoting higher productivity and competitiveness to enhance the country’s growth potential. The crosscutting issues of climate change and natural disaster risk management, gender, and institutional strengthening, will be considered and included in all strategy efforts. In addition urban management and health are dialogue areas under the strategy.

Representante de barbados
Viviana del Carmen Alva Hart
Representative
IDBBarbados@iadb.org

 

Our Team on The Ground

Address: "Hythe" Welches Maxwell Main Road BB17068 Christ Church, Barbados

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 402 Bridgetown BB11000, Barbados

(T) (1-246) 627-8500

(F) (1-246) 429-8869

Country representation

Executive Director: Robert Lennard Le Hunte

ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):

  • Navita Anganu

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

Total Contribution: 3,782,740

Number of votes: 19,441

of the institution's ownership

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December 06, 2023
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05:00 AM - 06:30 AM
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07:00 AM - 08:30 AM
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Dec 05 - 06, 2023
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04:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Strategy and Projects

Like all the shareholders, Barbados appoints a Governor, who represents the country on the Board of Governors.

For day-to-day business at the Bank's Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Barbados is represented by a chair on the Board of Executive Directors. The chair, shared with BahamasGuyanaJamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, is headed by an Executive Director, who is elected to a three-year term by the Governors of Barbados, Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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 2019-2023
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Country Office

The Bank’s Country Strategy with Barbados for the 2019-2023 period focuses on three areas of engagement:

(i) fostering fiscal sustainability and a more efficient public sector;

(ii) safeguarding social outcomes; and

(iii) promoting higher productivity and competitiveness to enhance the country’s growth potential. The crosscutting issues of climate change and natural disaster risk management, gender, and institutional strengthening, will be considered and included in all strategy efforts. In addition urban management and health are dialogue areas under the strategy.

Representante de barbados
Viviana del Carmen Alva Hart
Representative
IDBBarbados@iadb.org

 

Our Team on The Ground

Address: "Hythe" Welches Maxwell Main Road BB17068 Christ Church, Barbados

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 402 Bridgetown BB11000, Barbados

(T) (1-246) 627-8500

(F) (1-246) 429-8869

Country representation

Executive Director: Robert Lennard Le Hunte

ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):

  • Navita Anganu

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

Total Contribution: 3,782,740

Number of votes: 19,441

of the institution's ownership

Brazil to Promote Vital Infrastructure Projects in Northeast Region with IDB Support
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $300 million loan for Brazil to boost sustainable development in the country’s northeastern region by reducing infrastructure bottlenecks that affect strategic production chains. 
December 07, 2023
IDB Lab Will Deploy $46 Million to Promote Innovation in Climate and Nature
IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, introduced its Green Entrepreneurial Engine approach, an ambitious effort to address climate change and environmental sustainability while accelerating technological climate innovation in Latin America and the
December 07, 2023
IDB to Help Pará Protect Amazon Forest on the State’s Path to Decarbonization
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $300 million policy reform loan to support the State of Pará, Brazil, as it strives to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 205
December 06, 2023
Dec 07, 2023
Urbanismo saludable: herramientas para las ciudades de América Latina y el Caribe
05:00 AM - 06:30 AM
United States - Washington, D.C.
Dec 07, 2023
Governance and Development Seminars: Governance Institutions & High-Tech Exports | Luigi Manzetti (SMU)
07:00 AM - 08:30 AM
United States - Washington, D.C.
Dec 05 - 06, 2023
Alianzas entre el sector público, el sector privado y la academia para la identificación del riesgo de desastres y cambio climático
04:00 AM - 12:00 PM
El Salvador - San Salvador
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

Like all the shareholders, Barbados appoints a Governor, who represents the country on the Board of Governors.

For day-to-day business at the Bank's Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Barbados is represented by a chair on the Board of Executive Directors. The chair, shared with BahamasGuyanaJamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, is headed by an Executive Director, who is elected to a three-year term by the Governors of Barbados, Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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 2019-2023
Download
hands
INTERACTIVE: IDB Group Country Strategy with Barbados 2019-2023
Download
hands
Subscribe
See more
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