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DFI Transparency Index 2025

IDB

Score:
77.5
Position:
4 / 10 (Sovereign)

Overview

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) provides concessional and non-concessional loans, loan guarantees, grants, and technical assistance to middle and lower-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB became an IATI member in 2011 and first published to the IATI Standard in March 2013. IDB manages the IDB Group’s sovereign-backed lending, while a separate entity, IDB Invest, manages the private sector portfolio. IDB was established in 1959.

Total asset size: $152bn
Key links
  • IDB website
  • IDB project database

Analysis

Overall, IDB ranked 4th out of the 10 sovereign portfolios assessed, scoring 77.5 out of 100. Although it dropped one position from 3rd to 4th in the rankings, its score increased from 69.9 in 2023. A key improvement since 2023 was that the majority of projects from the sample were disclosed to IATI, enabling IDB to gain format points it had lost in 2023 due to inconsistent project uploads. It continued to rank top of the Financial Information component due to publishing data for all indicators.

IDB ranked 3rd in the Core Information component, scoring 22.13 out of 30 and maintaining its 2023 ranking. It made progress by adding data that was previously only available in PDF format to its bulk download, including disbursement information and client names, and by introducing a new data point: the date of last update. However, IDB lost points for failing to disclose the investment contract consistently. It also continued to fall short by not providing project descriptions or sub-national location data in its bulk download or on IATI, as these remain available only in PDFs, and by not disclosing disbursement data consistently across all projects on IATI. Additionally, it still does not disclose client contact details or the disclosure date.

In the Impact Management component, IDB also ranked 3rd and scored 26.33 out of 30, improving slightly from its position as 4th in 2023. Its performance declined slightly across the organisational indicators because its country and sector strategies were not available on the IATI Registry. However, its overall score in this component improved, as activity indicators, metrics, and results were consistently disclosed across all sampled projects on IATI.

IDB came 5th in the ESG and Accountability to Communities component, scoring 19.92 out of 30, dropping from its position as 3rd in 2023. It scored for all policy level questions apart from early disclosure policy on the global level. At the project level, it gained points for consistently publishing summaries of E&S risks and project plans/assessments to IATI, but lost points since 2023 as not all sampled projects disclosed all identified E&S documents. It improved slightly on the assurance of community disclosure indicator between 2023 and 2025.

In the Financial Information component, IDB again ranked first, scoring 9.08 out of 10. It performed strongly across all indicators, with the only gaps being the absence of financial statements on the IATI Registry and inconsistent disclosure of detailed climate finance budget breakdowns across all projects.

Core Information 22.13 / 30
Impact Management 26.33 / 30
ESG & Accountability to Communities 19.92 / 30
Financial Information 9.08 / 10

Recommendations

  • IDB should publish policy documents to the IATI Registry, including its annual report, country/sector strategies and financial reports/statements.
  • IDB should disclose further Core Information data including client contact and disclosure date. It should consistently disclose investment contracts for all activities.
  • It should include more data points in its bulk download file and to IATI that it already publishes elsewhere, including activity description and sub-national location. It should ensure disbursement is consistently disclosed on IATI.
  • IDB should publish its approach to determining impact attribution. At the project-level, it should ensure that actual/current results data is consistently published to IATI across all investments.
  • IDB should develop an early disclosure policy covering, at a minimum, high-risk projects and disclose investments in line with the policy.
  • It should improve its IATI disclosure for E&S standards triggered and E&S documentation.
  • IDB should improve the consistency of its assurance of community disclosure, including disclosing the date, place, method, documentation and language of disclosure.
  • It should consistently disclose a budget breakdown for climate finance.
Core Information 22.13 / 30
Impact Management 26.33 / 30
ESG & Accountability to Communities 19.92 / 30
Financial Information 9.08 / 10

Deep Dive

Core InformationImpact ManagementESG & Accountability to CommunitiesFinancial Information

Core Information

22.13 / 30
About component

The basic information that describes a DFI’s organisational policies and investments. This type of information is typically found in key organisation documents and represents the first tier of project information, typically disclosed on project web pages or in files available for bulk download. At the organisation level this includes access to information policies and annual reports. At the project level, this includes project titles, locations, and key dates.

Disclosure / access to information policy

Score: 2.25 out of 3
Does the development finance institution (DFI) have a disclosure or access to information policy?0.75 / 0.75
Does the policy include a presumption of disclosure?0.75 / 0.75
Does the policy have limitations of commercially sensitive information and sensitive internal deliberations information?0 / 0.75
Does the policy have an independent appeals process?0.75 / 0.75

Accessibility

Score: 2 out of 2
Does the DFI's portal allow free, bulk export of data?0.67 / 0.67
Does it contain detailed disaggregated data?0.67 / 0.67
Is the data published under an open licence?0.67 / 0.67

Annual reports

Score: 0.75 out of 1
Does the DFI disclose an annual report?0.75 / 1

Project identification

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose a project title?0.75 / 0.75
Does the DFI disclose a unique identifier for the project?0.75 / 0.75

Status

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the current status of the activity?1.5 / 1.5

Project description

Score: 0.94 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose a description of the activity?0.19 / 0.75
Does the DFI disclose the objectives, rationales, and expected outcomes of the activity?0.75 / 0.75

Location

Score: 0.94 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the country the activity takes place in?0.75 / 0.75
Does the DFI disclose the sub-national location the activity takes place in?0.19 / 0.75

Sovereign / non-sovereign

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the activity as sovereign or non-sovereign? Or; Does the DFI disclose the activity as public sector or private sector?1.5 / 1.5

Sector

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the sector of the activity?0.75 / 0.75
Does the DFI disclose the sub-sector of the activity?0.75 / 0.75

Investment instrument

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the investment instrument of an activity?1.5 / 1.5

Project costs

Score: 1.38 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the total investment cost?0.5 / 0.5
Does the DFI disclose the DFI commitment for the investment?0.5 / 0.5
Does the DFI disclose the disbursement for the investment?0.38 / 0.5

Funding source

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the source of funding for the investment?1.5 / 1.5

Client

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the name of the client?1.5 / 1.5

Contacts

Score: 0.75 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose a relevant DFI contact?0.75 / 0.75
Does the DFI disclose a relevant client contact?0 / 0.75

E&S risk category

Score: 1.5 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the environmental and social (E&S) risk category of the activity?1.5 / 1.5

Progress dates

Score: 1.13 out of 1.5
Does the DFI disclose the date of activity disclosure?0 / 0.38
Does the DFI disclose the approval date of the activity?0.38 / 0.38
Does the DFI disclose the signature date of the activity?0.38 / 0.38
Does the DFI disclose the last update date of the project data?0.38 / 0.38

Contract (sovereign only)

Score: 0 out of 4.5
Does the DFI disclose the investment contract for the activity?0 / 4.5

Impact Management

26.33 / 30
About component

The ways in which a DFI predicts, measures, and evaluates the impacts of their investments. At the organisation level, this includes an impact measurement approach. At the project level, this includes activity indicators/metrics and results.

Impact measurement approach

Score: 4 out of 6
Does the DFI publish a methodology explaining its approach to impact measurement?2 / 2
Does the DFI indicate which standards/initiatives it is aligned to?2 / 2
Does the DFI explain its approach to determining impact attribution?0 / 2

Sector / country strategy

Score: 3 out of 4
Does the DFI publish sector or (multi-)country strategies?3 / 4

Evaluations

Score: 4 out of 4
Does the DFI have a policy on the evaluation of investments?2 / 2
Does the DFI disclose the evaluations that it conducts?2 / 2

Activity indicators / metrics

Score: 8 out of 8
Does the DFI disclose results indicators for the activity?4 / 4
Does the DFI disclose metrics, definitions and/or methodologies for the indicators?4 / 4

Results

Score: 7.33 out of 8
Does the DFI disclose baseline data for identified indicators?2.67 / 2.67
Does the DFI disclose a target value for the indicators?2.67 / 2.67
Does the DFI disclose an actual/current value for the indicators?2 / 2.67

ESG & Accountability to Communities

19.92 / 30
About component

The ways in which a DFI predicts, mitigates, and communicates the ESG aspects of their activities. At the organisation level this includes E&S global disclosure policy and E&S community disclosure policy. At the project level this includes E&S plans and assessments, and assurance of community disclosure.

E&S global disclosure policy

Score: 4.17 out of 5
Does the DFI have a policy on early disclosure of investments?0 / 0.83
Does the DFI clearly articulate what E&S documentation will be disclosed for medium and high-risk projects?0.83 / 0.83
Does the DFI disclose the E&S policies/standards it applies (e.g. IFC Performance Standards or in-house policies) for its investments?0.83 / 0.83
Does the DFI have a policy that specifies when a document should be translated and in which language?0.83 / 0.83
Does the DFI disclose an explanation of project risk categorisation?0.83 / 0.83
Does the DFI disclose a list of investment exemptions?0.83 / 0.83

E&S community disclosure policy

Score: 4 out of 4
Does the DFI have a community disclosure policy?1 / 1
Does the policy require early disclosure to project-affected people?1 / 1
Does the DFI clearly articulate what E&S documentation will be disclosed to project-affected people for investments?1 / 1
Does the DFI have a free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) policy?1 / 1

IAM global disclosure documentation

Score: 2 out of 2
Does the DFI disclose the availability of the Independent Accountability Mechanism (IAM) on its website?1 / 1
Does the DFI IAM have a publicly available registry that publishes results, responses, or findings?1 / 1

IAM community disclosure policy

Score: 2 out of 2
Does the DFI require clients to disclose the availability of the IAM to project-affected people where appropriate? Or; Does the DFI state that it will disclose the availability of IAM to project-affected people?2 / 2

PGM community disclosure policy

Score: 2 out of 2
Does the DFI require clients to disclose the availability of the project-level grievance mechanism (PGM) to project-affected people where appropriate? Or; Does the DFI state that it will disclose the availability of the PGM to project-affected people?2 / 2

Summary of E&S risks

Score: 1.75 out of 2
Does the DFI disclose a summary of E&S risks for an activity?1 / 1
Are E&S standards triggered by the project identified?0.75 / 1

E&S project plans / assessments

Score: 2 out of 4
Does the DFI disclose the minimum E&S documentation for the risk categorisation?1 / 1.33
Does the DFI disclose what E&S documentation was produced for the activity?1 / 1.33
Does the DFI disclose all identified E&S documents that were produced for the activity?0 / 1.33

Assurance of community disclosure

Score: 1 out of 8
Does the DFI state if disclosure of the activity to projected-affected people was required?1 / 1
If yes, then: Does the DFI state the date of community E&S disclosure?0 / 1
Does the DFI state the place of community E&S disclosure?0 / 1
Does the DFI state the method of community disclosure?0 / 1
Does the DFI state what documentation was disclosed?0 / 1
Does the DFI identify the language of disclosure to project-affected people?0 / 1
Does the DFI state if the presence of a project grievance mechanism was disclosed and the method it was disclosed?0 / 1
Does the DFI state if the presence of an independent accountability mechanism was disclosed and the method it was disclosed?0 / 1

IAM global disclosure

Score: 1 out of 1
Does the DFI disclose the presence of the IAM on the DFI project page?1 / 1

Financial Information

9.08 / 10
About component

This information provides details on the financial performance of DFIs and the structuring of investments. At the organisation level, this includes audited financial reports. At the project level, this includes currency of investment, mobilisation, and concessionality

Financial reports / statements

Score: 0.75 out of 1
Does the DFI disclose audited financial reports/statements?0.75 / 1

Climate finance methodology

Score: 1 out of 1
Does the DFI publish a methodology explaining its approach to calculating climate finance?1 / 1

Currency of investment

Score: 1 out of 1
Does the DFI disclose the currency that the investment is made in?1 / 1

Co-financing

Score: 1 out of 1
Does the DFI disclose whether investment has co-financers or guarantors?0.33 / 0.33
If there are co-financers, does the DFI disclose the identity of the co-financers?0.33 / 0.33
And, does the DFI disclose the amount of financing provided by each co-financer?0.33 / 0.33

Loan pricing (sovereign only)

Score: 2 out of 2
Does the DFI disclose detailed pricing information about the investment, including interest rate and loan tenor?2 / 2

Climate finance

Score: 3.33 out of 4
Does the DFI disclose whether an investment includes climate finance?0.67 / 0.67
If the investment includes climate finance: Does the DFI disclose whether it is mitigation and/or adaptation climate finance?0.67 / 0.67
Does the DFI disclose the amount of climate finance for the investment?0.67 / 0.67
Does the DFI disclose the amount of mitigation and/or adaptation finance for the investment?0.67 / 0.67
Does the DFI disclose a rationale for why climate finance has been counted?0.67 / 0.67
Does the DFI disclose a budget breakdown for climate finance? (sovereign only)0 / 0.67
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