IDA provides leadership.
By rallying and uniting development partners around a common purpose, IDA helps make the world more secure for low-income countries.
IDA offers global solutions.
IDA’s broad reach enables comprehensive support — spanning advisory services, risk assessments, financing, and project design across sectors — while its on-the-ground presence drives solutions to regional and global challenges.
IDA facilitates knowledge.
IDA provides development data and shared standards, protects the global commons, and helps manage the risks of pandemics and financial contagion.
IDA brings an integrated approach to development.
IDA fosters environments where change can take hold and the private sector can drive investment, while serving as a platform for knowledge exchange among industries, governments, and partners to tackle complex global challenges.
IDA champions a country-led model.
IDA emphasizes local ownership, ensuring that recipient countries take the lead in shaping how projects align with their economic and social priorities.
IDA is flexible.
IDA stays lean and adaptive, streamlining operations to deliver faster, simpler, and more tangible results.
IDA enhances aid effectiveness.
IDA cuts through the complexities of aid architecture by building government capacity to manage fragmented and proliferating funding streams. IDA’s unearmarked funds give countries the flexibility to respond swiftly to natural disasters, pandemics, and economic shocks.
IDA makes the world a better place for girls and women.
IDA works to reverse millennia of discrimination by getting girls to school, helping women access financing to start small businesses, and ultimately improving the economic prospects of families and communities.
IDA delivers and measures results.
As the first multilateral development institution to establish an outcomes-tracking framework, IDA has set the standard that other development organizations now follow.
Last Updated: Apr 25, 2026