The IDB Group’s Institutional Strategy renews the Bank’s mission to be the partner of choice for Latin America and the Caribbean, with a commitment to addressing the region’s vulnerabilities and unlocking its potential to foster transformative social and economic progress while addressing climate change. It sets the Group’s strategic direction through 2030 to bring a new level of impact and scale in the region, defining a new chapter in our history that we call IDBImpact+.
Three mutually reinforcing objectives are at the core of the Institutional Strategy, driving action across the full range of our development projects.
Reducing Poverty and Inequality
We are devoted to eradicating extreme poverty and investing in human capital – from education to food security and health to gender equality.
Addressing Climate Change
We are dedicated to combating and adapting to climate change, including by safeguarding the Amazon, curbing emissions and preserving biodiversity, while strengthening resilience.
Bolstering Sustainable Growth
We are committed to increasing the region’s long-term growth, by investing in infrastructure, empowering the private sector to drive productivity and innovation, and enhancing regional integration.
To achieve our core objectives, we work in seven areas of operational focus. The first three are addressed through targeted projects as well as through their mainstreaming in diverse sectors to enhance impact.
Our approach to serving the region centers around five elements to maximize the delivery of value and results.
Each leverages our comparative advantages and builds complementarities with other international financial institutions.
We are building a true culture of results, restructuring our processes, decision-making and incentives to put impact at the core of our operations.
We are committed to focusing our support to have greater impact, tailoring our efforts to our member countries’ priorities and exploiting synergies across interventions.
We are enhancing our instruments to maximize our responsiveness, impact, and mobilization to address the region's vulnerabilities and heterogeneous contexts.
We are creating a powerful continuum of public-sector and private-sector investments and solutions through a better-aligned IDB, IDB Invest and IDB Lab.
We are maximizing our value as a knowledge bank, generating and disseminating research and insights that help foster development impact at scale.
Solid corporate foundations will enable our success: robust financial capacity, strong processes and systems, and an internal culture of impact and meritocracy.
The Impact Framework is our primary tool for monitoring and evaluating our performance and results. It translates our institutional strategy into measurable outcomes, reflecting our heightened ambition to become a more effective organization and enhance our contributions to development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
We have a new approach that unifies and focuses the work of the IDB, IDB Invest and IDB Lab under one goal.
A holistic umbrella program for the sustainable development of the region, which aims to work together on forest and climate conservation and to improve people's quality of lives, offering economic alternatives.
Businesses worldwide can unlock billions in untapped economic opportunities across the region by leveraging the IDB’s experience, networks, and commitment to transparency, equality, governance, and sustainability.
The program to bolster integration, resilience and social development in Central America and the Dominican Republic.
Our program to enhance climate adaptation, citizen security, private-sector engagement and food security in Caribbean countries.