The IDA21 Replenishment

The International Development Association (IDA), which makes up one half of the World Bank, is the single largest source of grants and concessional finance for the world’s poorest countries. IDA's 21st funding cycle will be in full swing throughout 2024, culminating in a December pledging session.

CGD's experts are examining the big questions around the replenishment: how to get to a record size, but also setting the right policy commitments to meet critical challenges like gender equity, reducing fragility, private sector job creation, and supporting refugees.

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Blog Post

IDA’s New Results Framework: Is Less Really More?
Karen Mathiasen
July 09, 2025
In a new note, I take a close look at IDA’s new results management system, which took effect last week at the start of the 21st replenishment and will run through June 30, 2028. I did this for two reasons: 1) there are significant changes to how IDA will measure results in IDA21; and 2) many stakeho...
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CGD NOTE

Could IDA21’s New Results Framework Make IDA22 Harder to Champion?
Karen Mathiasen
July 09, 2025
It is reasonable to argue that the IDA results measurement framework needed reform when donors negotiated IDA21. By IDA20, the framework lacked cohesion and included more than 1,000 programmatic funding targets, only a few of which had corresponding indicators showing any connection between inputs (...
People on the street next to a bus loaded with parcels
Blog Post

China and IDA: An (Even More) Modest Proposal
Charles Kenny
May 19, 2025
In August last year, I made a modest proposal to China’s Minister of Finance regarding IDA, the soft lending arm of the World Bank that works with the poorest countries. I suggested China might want to become an equal IDA shareholder to the US. While Beijing did increase its contribution in the sub...
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Blog Post

Can IDA Weather the Development Finance Storm?
Nico Martinez
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Clemence Landers
May 16, 2025
The 21st replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA), the concessional lending arm of the World Bank, concluded last December, with donors pledging $23.7 billion for a replenishment totaling $100 billion. A month later, President Trump took office, and his administration impleme...
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