The objective of the IDB Group country strategy with El Salvador for the period 2021-2024 is to help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the country’s prospects for recovery and to achieve more vigorous, inclusive, and sustainable growth over the medium term. To support this objective, the proposed approach for the years ahead responds to the country’s most immediate needs deriving from the health crisis and its social and economic impacts, while supporting the process of fiscal consolidation and the restructuring of production. In this regard, three priority areas have been identified to guide the IDB Group’s support for the government program:
(i) fiscal sustainability and efficiency;
(ii) reducing social vulnerability; and
(iii) revitalizing and restructuring production. Gender, diversity, climate change, and natural disasters will be addressed in a cross-cutting way. The country strategy has been the outcome of an extensive dialogue with the country authorities and civil society, and it has taken into account how the global impacts of the pandemic are evolving and its short-to-medium term repercussions for El Salvador as well as the structural challenges the country faces.

Our team on the Ground
Address: Edificio WTC, piso 4 89 Avenida Norte y Calle El Mirador, San Salvador, El Salvador
Mailing Address: Edificio WTC, piso 4 89 Avenida Norte y Calle El Mirador, San Salvador, El Salvador
(T) (503) 2233-8900
(F) (503) 2233-8921
Executive Director: Eddy Roberto Carpio Sam
ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):
- Karen Cis
ELECTED BY: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
Total Contribution: 11,700,900
Number of votes: 64,649
of the institution's ownership
Videos available in Spanish
El Salvador is one of the founding member countries of the IDB. Like all the shareholders, El Salvador 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., El Salvador is represented by a chair on the Board of Executive Directors. The chair shared with Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, is headed by an Executive Director, who is elected to a three-year term by the Governors of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Country strategies remain valid for one year beyond the stated period, as they remain active throughout the preparation of the following strategy.
The objective of the IDB Group country strategy with El Salvador for the period 2021-2024 is to help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the country’s prospects for recovery and to achieve more vigorous, inclusive, and sustainable growth over the medium term. To support this objective, the proposed approach for the years ahead responds to the country’s most immediate needs deriving from the health crisis and its social and economic impacts, while supporting the process of fiscal consolidation and the restructuring of production. In this regard, three priority areas have been identified to guide the IDB Group’s support for the government program:
(i) fiscal sustainability and efficiency;
(ii) reducing social vulnerability; and
(iii) revitalizing and restructuring production. Gender, diversity, climate change, and natural disasters will be addressed in a cross-cutting way. The country strategy has been the outcome of an extensive dialogue with the country authorities and civil society, and it has taken into account how the global impacts of the pandemic are evolving and its short-to-medium term repercussions for El Salvador as well as the structural challenges the country faces.

Our team on the Ground
Address: Edificio WTC, piso 4 89 Avenida Norte y Calle El Mirador, San Salvador, El Salvador
Mailing Address: Edificio WTC, piso 4 89 Avenida Norte y Calle El Mirador, San Salvador, El Salvador
(T) (503) 2233-8900
(F) (503) 2233-8921
Executive Director: Eddy Roberto Carpio Sam
ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):
- Karen Cis
ELECTED BY: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
Total Contribution: 11,700,900
Number of votes: 64,649
of the institution's ownership
Videos available in Spanish
El Salvador is one of the founding member countries of the IDB. Like all the shareholders, El Salvador 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., El Salvador is represented by a chair on the Board of Executive Directors. The chair shared with Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, is headed by an Executive Director, who is elected to a three-year term by the Governors of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
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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