Rising to the Challenge
As the World Bank evolves its mission in this time ofcompounding crises, IDA is leveraging its track record
as the partner of choice for countries in attaining theirdevelopment objectives. The 20th IDA replenishment(IDA20) has adopted five Special Themes, with a historiccommitment of $93 billion. These themes align with theWorld Bank’s new mission of ending poverty and creating
shared prosperity on a livable planet – People, Prosperity,
Planet.

Human
CapitalGender andDevelopment
Fragility, Conflict,and Violence

Meeting the Moment
A Record of Development Achievement
For over 60 years, the International Development Association (IDA) has been at the forefrontof the global fight against poverty. Since its inception in 1960, IDA has supported almost
7,400 projects in 115 countries. Thirty-six of these countries have graduated to middleincome status or higher; several have gone on to become IDA donors.

A Time of Compounding Crises
Now, the world stands at a crossroads. Progress in the fight against poverty is slowing,
and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are further out of reach. The COVID-19
pandemic set back decades of development achievements and deepened inequality, bothwithin countries and between them. More and more people face food insecurity, andwater and energy shortages. As geopolitical tensions rise, more countries and regions areexperiencing fragility, conflict, and violence. Exacerbating these challenges, the climate
crisis presents an existential threat to humanity and the biosphere itself.

Jobs and Economic
Transformation
ClimateChangeThe Special Themes are underpinned by IDA’s four
Cross-cutting Issues - Crisis Preparedness, Governanceand Institutions, Debt, and Technology. Together, thethemes and cross-cutting issues inform a series ofcommitments, the outcomes of which are measured
through IDA’s Result Measurement System (RMS).
IDA20 introduced a new RMS, the most ambitious
in IDA’s history, to track the progress of countries
towards inclusion, resilience to future shocks, greater
economic diversity and productivity, and better prospects for future generations.

PEOPLEHUMANCAPITAL

IDA20 Result
Highlight*

15 million
peopleprovided withimproved accessto sanitation - a
46% increase
from IDA19.

Improving Lives, Growing
Sustainable Economies
For decades, IDA has focused on investing in people
through nutrition, health care, quality education andskills development, and social protection. However,more is needed to arrest declines in human capitaland to help countries recover from the COVID-19 crisis.
In the face of compounding crises like conflict, foodinsecurity, and the impacts of climate change, IDA20
is helping countries to close growing gaps in humancapital, strengthen resilience, and address structuralinequalities.

Beneficiaries of social safety net programs
have more than tripled
Beneficiaries, in millions

194
Investing in Tanzania’s YouthThe schools have beenable to purchase teaching andlearning materials and have
reduced the financial burden ofparents. Indirectly, this has improved
the relationship between the school and theparents since the parents are now moreengaged and feel free to come to theschool and follow up on their children's
performance.
Leah Masaba, Head of Kingugi Primary

59

Pre-COVID(FY18–FY20)

3x

Post-COVID(FY21–FY23)

NOTE: Pre-COVID and Post-COVID values calculated as the sum of
the FY18 – FY20 and FY21 – FY23 results in IDA RMS.

The World Bank has helped Tanzania boost
School Temeke, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
human capital and social inclusion by improving
the quality of learning at the primary and secondary
levels through teacher training, as well as skills
building and vocational training for youth. The Tanzania Education Program for Results (P4R)
tackled some of Tanzania's most difficult educational challenges, benefiting 7 million students
since 2015. Other IDA-supported initiatives in Tanzania have focused on improving youth skills
and training; the Skills Development Fund, established under the Education and Skills for
Productive Jobs (ESPJ) P4R achieved 81 percent employment for more than 45,000 trainees,
almost half of them women, who participated in short-term training, apprenticeships, andinternships.
*Timeframe represented for IDA20 results is the World Bank Fiscal Year 2023.

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COVID-19 and IDA
At the outbreak of COVID-19,
IDA rapidly established itself as
one of the World Bank’s primarymechanisms for pandemic
response. In the first 18 monthsof the crisis, IDA committed morethan $56 billion (through theWorld Bank’s Fast-Track Facility)
on highly concessionalor grant terms to 62 countries
around the world, enabling themto cover medical costs andpreserve human capital gains.
In Tajikistan, IDA financing
enabled the payment of a
one-time emergency cash
assistance provided to over
230,000 vulnerable households,
and 900,000 doses of vaccines
were distributed. In the East Asia
and Pacific (EAP) region, IDA
supported a number of
emergency operations throughthe Fast-Track Facility: in
the Marshall Islands, IDAfinanced projects helped theGovernment keep the caseload to among the lowest in theworld, with a fatality rate of just
0.1 percent. In the Lao People’s
Democratic Republic (Lao PDR),
the COVID-19 Response Projectcontributed to the full
vaccination of 76 percent of the
population.

POLICY COMMITMENT

Expanding adaptivesocial protection andbuilding resilience

CROSS-CUTTING ISSUE

23,000 vulnerable households
supported in Haiti

Governanceand Institutions
The $615 million Regional Disease
Surveillance Systems Enhancement(REDISSE) Program strengthens national andregional cross-sectoral capacity forcollaborative disease surveillanceand emergency epidemic
preparedness in

15 countries in West
and Central Africa.

through monthly cash transfers,
enabling them to build financial
resilience against violenceor disaster.

GENDER AND
DEVELOPMENT

IDA20 Result
Highlight

At least 50% of
beneficiaries

of all human capital
activities were
women.*

Advancing Women’s Well-Being
and Economic Empowerment
Gender equality leads to a better, more resilient world. Supporting equal
economic opportunities for women and girls builds human capital, helps
address food insecurity, and reduces conflict and fragility. IDA works toclose gender gaps by providing critical and comprehensive support thatempowers women—and thus their communities and economies. IDA has
achieved steady progress in closing gender gaps in its operations, and instrengthening gender equality across sectors. IDA20 builds on the WorldBank gender strategy, increasing commitments in areas where gender
gaps have worsened because of the COVID-19 crisis. Priorities include
improving educational outcomes for girls; expanding access to sexualand reproductive, adolescent, and maternal health services; increasing
employment opportunities; expanding access to quality childcare; closing
the gap in digital technology; and addressing gender-based violence (GBV).

Increased share of women benefiting from job-focusedinterventions in IDA countries
Percent of female beneficiaries over total
Female beneficiaries, in millions

41%
28%
4.8

2.6

FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

FY22

FY23

Enhancing Gender Equality
through Education and Training
in the Sahel

My mother andgrandmother neverwent to school because
they got married too early.
I am fortunate to have received
a scholarship to pursue
my studies.
SWEDD beneficiary Innayatou
Souradji – Kiota, Mali

The Sahel Women's Empowerment and Demographic
Dividend (SWEDD) Program, launched in 2015 in Benin,
Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, andNiger empowers women and adolescent girls and enhances their access to quality education
and reproductive, child, and maternal health services. Through the program, almost a million
girls and young women have received support to stay in school, enhance their life skills, gain
knowledge about sexual and reproductive health, and access economic opportunities andfinancial inclusion. Its awareness campaigns on reproductive, maternal, and child healthcare
and violence against women have reached over 4 million people. SWEDD has strengthened
legal frameworks and institutional capacity on gender policy, budgeting and programming.
In addition, more than two million people from refugee and host communities in the region
have benefited from new infrastructure and services, including immunization programs.
*50 percent of human capital indicators that are disaggregated by gender reached at least 50 percent women.

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Supporting Economic
Opportunities for Women
Entrepreneurs
The International FinanceCorporation's (IFC) Base of the
Pyramid (BOP) Platform helps
financial services providers deliver
funding to support medium, small
and micro enterprises (MSMEs),
informal enterprises, andlow-income households in theirrecovery from the operational andfinancial impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic. So far, the program hasreached 43 financial institutions in
32 countries.
In the Kyrgyz Republic, forexample, IFC is helping address
financing gaps by providing $20
million in financing to increase
access to finance for womenowned microenterprises andlow-income housing in rural areas.
The financing is being provided
through currency swaps with the
IDA Private Sector Window’s(PSW) Local Currency Facility. By
adopting a dedicated approach to
the women’s market, IFC estimatesthat financial institutions acrosscentral Asia could see a six-foldgrowth in annual revenues fromwomen customers – from $67
million to $431 million.

CROSSCUTTING ISSUE

Technology
In 2023, over 900,000 poor
households in drought-prone
communities in Ethiopia have received
social benefits in electronic accounts,

43% of which are
owned and operated
by women.

POLICYCOMMITMENT

Scaling Up Productive
Economic Inclusion
Since 2019, over 360,000

livestock producers, of which
22 percent are women, havebenefited from the Livestock
Development Project(PRODEL) in Cameroon.

FRAGILITY,
CONFLICT &VIOLENCE

IDA20 Result
Highlight

Over 50 million
beneficiaries
of health, nutritionand population
services in FCVaffected countries.

Preserving Development Gains
and Preparing for Peace
Around the world, violent conflicts are escalating, threatening
large-scale reversals in development progress. Poverty is increasingly
concentrated in fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV)-affected countries;
59 percent of the world’s extreme poor are expected to live in thesecountries by 2030. FCV has led to a surge in forced displacement, placing
additional social and economic burdens on neighboring countries. All ofthese challenges are multiplied by the impacts of climate change. IDA
prioritizes these issues in its development response; FCV has been an
IDA Special Theme since IDA15. IDA20 evolves this theme across country
programming, expanding engagement on transboundary drivers of FCV,
and strengthening regional crisis risk preparedness. IDA scales up
resources to FCV-affected countries through the FCV Envelope, torespond with greater agility to their evolving needs and ensure a green,
inclusive, and resilient future post-conflict.

Restoring Dignity andLivelihoods to Refugees in Yemen

Millions receive new or improved electricity
service in FCS-affected countries
People, in millions

5x

6.5

1.2
FY18

FY19

FY20

FY21

FY22

FY23

Today, IDA’s support
enables UNICEF to givechildren and their families
access to essential services andto lifesaving cash transfers,
contributing to provide amuch-needed social safety net
in Yemen.
Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF
Representative - Yemen

In Yemen, IDA is helping to deliver basic services,preserve human capital, and promote food security,
resilience, and livelihood opportunities. Since 2017,
IDA’s project portfolio in Yemen has almost tripled, from $850 million to more than $2 billion,
with most projects executed through partnerships with UN agencies and other institutions. The
Bank’s $850 million Emergency Crisis Response Project (ECRP) was executed in partnershipwith the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF), and local institutions. It supported a cash-for-work and community-based
investment program that provided employment for over 440,000 direct beneficiaries, andsupported more than 5,000 entrepreneurs and businesses through beneficiary micro-lenders.
Over five million people received access to community services, such as water, irrigation, andbetter roads, and almost 680,000 mothers and children received nutrition services.

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Partnerships inPeacebuilding andDevelopment
The World Bank works withhumanitarian, development,
peacebuilding, security, and private
sector actors to remain engaged in
FCV settings and maximize impact
on the ground.

POLICY COMMITMENT

Leveraging Outcomesfor both Refugee and Host
Communities
In the Horn of Africa, the Development
Response to Displacement Impacts Program(DRDIP) is helping improve access to basic social
services, expand economic opportunities andenhance environmental management forhost communities impacted by thepresence of refugees, with
CROSS- CUTTING ISSUE
over a million beneficiaries,
TECHNOLOGY
including 730,000 directly
impacted.
In the Central African Republic the

Health System Support andStrengthening Project used simple digitaltechnologies under the World Bank’s
Geo-Enabling for Monitoringand Supervision (GEMS) initiative to map
GBV service providers, track the delivery
and supply of medication to 300
health facilities, and monitor
performance-based payments
to over 350 health facilities.

In Afghanistan, in partnership with
the Afghanistan Resilience TrustFund (ARTF), the World Bank has
supported programs that provided
more than $1 billion to projects
executed through UN agencies andinternational NGOs. The World Bank
continues to maintain a presence in
Kabul, working on health, community
resilience, agriculture, job creationand education. It partners with
non-government and private sector
institutions to promote post-crisis
sustainability and cost-effective
delivery at scale. This approach has
allowed the World Bank to respondrapidly to the situation in
Afghanistan, where community
resilience, livelihoods, and jobs
projects have created over 50,000
jobs for men and women, and300,000 farmers have been provided
with seeds and other inputs,
improving food security for morethan two million people.

PROSPERITYIDA20 Result
Highlight

Over 66 million
peoplebenefited fromenhanced access tobroadband.

JOBS & ECONOMIC
TRANSFORMATION
Supporting an Enabling Environment for Job Creation
In an increasingly interconnected world,
where inequality between countries is
amplifying development challenges,
good jobs and economic transformation
have the power to boost prosperity andtransform communities. IDA has astrong track record of supporting job
growth in the world’s poorest countries,
helping hundreds of millions of people
advance out of poverty and into fulleconomic participation. IDA20’s Jobs
and Economic Transformation agenda
supports countries in creating more
and better jobs by encouraging private
investment, promoting financial stability
and good governance, establishing a
conducive business enabling environment
with fair and open markets, and allowing
easier access to infrastructure andfinancial services. IDA is also promoting
innovation and sustainable development

across economic sectors, from financeto industry and agriculture, for greener,
more inclusive growth.

More farmers have adopted
improved agricultural technology
Farmers, in millions

2.6

2.3
1.2*
IDA 18

IDA 19IDA 20FY23*COVID-19-related disruptions led to a drop in IDA19
but IDA20 shows a rebound.
NOTE: IDA18 = Annual average of FY18 – FY20 results //IDA19 = Annual average of FY21 – FY22 results.

Improving Lives
Through Industrial
Developmentin Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, the Competitiveness& Job Creation project has createdan enabling environment to attract
investment for serviced industrial
parks. The project has mobilized
over $117 million of private
capital, creating more than 19,000
jobs, 66 percent of them for young
women. Over $192 million in total
sales were generated from two
industrial parks, Kilinto and Bole
Lemi I and II. Thirty-one local SMEs
have established linkages withforeign direct investment (FDI)
firms in the parks throughmatching grant and community
development initiatives. These
include the provision of schools,
childcare, basic infrastructure, andlivelihood support toproject-affected
communities.
Embarking on
Additionally,
industrial park
around 70,000
development, Ethiopia has
smallholder
attracted foreign direct
farmers
investment, generated revenue,
benefitedfacilitated avenues for technology
from a greenand skills transfer, and createdfield malting
ample jobs.
plant and supply
Aklilu Tadesse, Industrial Park
Development Corporation CEO –chain that theAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
project established byleveraging an IFC
investment.

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The Private Sector
Window
Through the Private Sector
Window (PSW), IDA works
closely with the World Bank
Group’s private sector
arms— IFC and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency (MIGA)—to leverage
IDA’s resources and help
mobilize sustainable private
sector investment in thepoorest and most fragile
markets.
In Djibouti, the PSW andMIGA are supporting theconstruction and operationof the Ghoubet wind farm, a59-megawatt utility-scale
facility that will contributeto Djibouti’s goal of reaching
100 percent generationfrom renewable sources by2035. A stable source ofelectricity will enhance thebusiness environment andimprove private sector
confidence, creating jobs
and opportunities for
Djibouti’s young population,
while supporting climate
mitigation by reducing
greenhouse emissions.

POLICYCOMMITMENT

Boosting agriculture
productivity, value
chains, and food security
In Timor-Leste, over 10,000
subsistence farmers, 75% ofthem women, have received
access to finance through aloan facility provided by
the IFC.

CROSSCUTTING ISSUE

DEBT

35 countries have publishedannual and timely public debt reports
or fiscal risk statements under
IDA20, improving theirinvestment environment andboosting opportunities
for job creation.

PLANETCLIMATE
CHANGE
Building Resiliencein a Growing Crisis
The impacts of climate change have already reversed
important development gains, and could push 130
million people into poverty by 2030. People in IDA
countries face disproportionate risks from the impactsof climate change, which threaten their lives andlivelihoods—even though these countries contributeonly four percent of global emissions. IDA20 continues
to raise its ambition on climate change, prioritizing
climate action over the past two decades, and scaling
up support for climate initiatives in each successive
cycle. IDA20 partners with climate-vulnerable countries
in addressing adaptation and mitigation; achieving
decarbonization objectives; protecting biodiversity,
natural capital, and ecosystem services; stimulating
growth; and enabling a green recovery.

Generation capacity of renewable energy
In gigawatts

47%
4.7

FY23

10

of IDA 20
expectedvalue

IDA 20Exected Value

IDA20 Result
Highlight

38% climate
co-benefits

as a share of totalcommitments exceeding targets with adaptation
finance comprisingat least half.
The changing climate ismaking lives more difficultfor vulnerable communities
such as mine. We shall need towork harder to adapt. But whenever I
hear of a new shelter being built or an
existing one being repaired, I know that
there is still hope for our villages andfor our families.
Hasina Begum, primary school
headmistress - Barguna, Bangladesh

Comprehensive Climate
Action in Bangladesh
From 2000 to 2019, Bangladesh was ranked as the world’s seventh most climate changeaffected country. With over $1.8 billion in IDA financing, the World Bank has supported
Bangladesh in building resilience against natural disasters and climate change impacts,with interventions that include more than 1,300 rehabilitated or newly constructed multipurpose disaster shelters that operate as primary schools during normal weather, and550 km of climate-resilient roads. These initiatives are benefiting 9 million people living
along Bangladesh’s vulnerable coastline, where IDA-financed projects have helped toreduce cyclone-related deaths 100-fold since 1970. IDA is also supporting Bangladesh inprograms to mitigate the impacts of climate change. For example, the Improved Cook
Stoves (ICS) Program, supported by IDA with the Green Climate Fund, has reached morethan five million users since its inception in 2013. ICS will reduce emissions by over
10 metric tons of CO2 over its lifespan, and wood used for cooking by 58 percent, further
reducing emissions, improving household health, and allowing women to be more
economically active as they spend less time cooking. IDA is also supporting Bangladesh in
scaling up the use of renewable energy, with the addition of more than 135MW to the gridthrough renewable sources.

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A Transformational
Knowledge Product
Informing Meaningful
Climate Action

CROSS-CUTTING
ISSUE

Crisis Preparedness

POLICY COMMITMENT

Transitioning
Key Systems for
Adaptation and Mitigation

The Sindh Flood Emergency
Rehabilitation Project in Pakistan,
approved in December 2022, benefited
3 million people (of which half were
women), and helped restore andbuild the future resilience of
760 fish farms and
350,000 acres of land.

The Pacific Climate Resilient Transport
Program is building resilience in key roads, ports
and other transport infrastructurein the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati,
Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands,
Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, benefiting

45% of the
population acrossthese countries.

A significant innovation in
IDA20 is the introduction ofCountry Climate andDevelopment Reports(CCDRs), an analytical toolthat helps countries
integrate climate adaptationand mitigation strategies,
into national planning andinvestments. During IDA20,
CCDRs have already been
completed for 13 IDA
countries, including fivecountries impacted by FCV.
CCDRs are showcasing how
low-carbon, resilient
investments can generate
benefits that partially orcompletely offset costs. In
Ghana, for example, the CCDR
shows that under a net zerodeforestation scenario,
additional timber revenues
from increased tree
plantations could outweighthe costs of investment forplanting, maintenance, andenforcement, leading to again of more than $66 billion
from 2022 to 2050.

THE
JOURNEYCONTINUES
IDA and the WorldBank Evolution
IDA has emerged as the largest financing arm of theWorld Bank in the last few years, and demand for IDA
finance is poised to remain high as poor
countries face a worsening global outlook.
The crises of the last three years—
including COVID-19, war and increasing
If we really want to incentivize
fragility, deepening food insecurity,change, we can’t just wish it – weand the impacts of climate change—need to fight for it. Nowhere is thishave placed additional burdens on
truer than IDA. We are pushing the limits
IDA. Improving IDA’s financialof this important concessional resource, andcapacity will be a criticalno amount of creative financial engineering willelement to support ancompensate for the fact that we need more funding.
evolved World Bank
This must drive each of us to make the next
mission to reduce poverty
replenishment of IDA the largest of all time.
and improve prosperity on alivable planet.
Ajay Banga, World Bank President –World Bank and Internation Monetary
Fund Annual Meetings 2023,
Marrakech, Morocco