The Integration and Trade Sector coordinated Bank efforts in LAC to respond to the joint WTO-OECD call for case stories in preparation for the Third Global Review of Aid-for-Trade. The IDB's support for this event reinforces its institutional commitment to strengthening accountability, turning...

This Annual Report contains a brief summary of the economic situation of Latin America and the Caribbean and a review of the Bank's operations in 2000. In addition, the Report contains a description on a country-by-country basis and a regional basis of the Bank's various operations -loans,...

This paper includes both a Policy (OP-765) and a Strategy (GN-2387-5). The objective of the Policy is to enhance the Bank's contribution to the development of indigenous peoples by two sets of directives. The first requires the Bank to use its best efforts to promote the development with...

This document presents the Bank's official Policy on Involuntary Resettlement and includes the background paper, which was the basis for the development of the policy. This policy covers any involuntary physical displacement of people caused by a Bank project. It applies to all Bank funded...

This third edition of Investing in Gender Equality presents IDB projects that exemplify good work in the integration of gender considerations in their design. The 18 projects included in this edition have been identified through a system that ranks projects according to how comprehensively...

The Bank's Board approved a new Ex Post Policy (EPP) in October 2003, which mandated two new tasks to OVE: the review and validation of Project Completion Reports and the implementation of ex post project evaluations. The scope of this report (RE-308) is limited to the ex post project evaluation...

This document has been prepared to provide non-specialist personnel (the assessor) with some simple indicators to screen out hazardous land from use for housing or short-term settlements, or to identify land that requires mitigating measures before it can be safely used. The document presents...

In 2006, the Social Inclusion Trust Fund entered the first year of its second phase of operation. This preliminary program sought to expand research and awareness, build local and Bank capacity, increase operations that create opportunities for learning and building capacity, and broaden...

The Development Effectiveness Overview (DEO) is the IDB's annual corporate report that accounts for the effectiveness of its work, stating the results achieved with the implementation of the Bank's Development Effectiveness agenda. The 2011 DEO is focused on the status of the indicators defined...