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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Will the Window for Host Communities and Refugees Survive “SimplifIDA”?
Thomas Ginn
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Helen Dempster
June 14, 2024
Next week's IDA replenishment, stakeholders will discuss whether to merge the Window for Host Communities and Refugees with the Regional Window. We've researched the WHR—here are four recommendations for stakeholders as they consider the merger.
A crowded street in the refugee camp at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. Photo by Allison Joyce / UN Women, via Flickr
Blog Post

Does the IDA Private Sector Window Deserve More Funding? Only with Major Changes
Nancy Lee et al.
June 05, 2024
No decision by aid donors this year is more important than how much they pledge to the IDA replenishment negotiations. IDA, the World Bank’s lending window for the poorest countries, is the single largest multilateral source of grants and concessional finance to poor countries for both development a...
World Bank Group Headquarters
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IDA 21 and the Private Sector Window
Karen Mathiasen et al.
June 05, 2024
This paper reviews PSW performance and, based on our findings, offers recommendations to strengthen performance going forward. Our review is based on key indicators of success, including usage rates (commitments and disbursements), whether PSW investments have helped spur higher levels of IFC and MI...
lobal business and economy
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Can IDA Break the 100-Billion-Dollar Mark? The Math Is Difficult, but Not Impossible
Clemence Landers
May 07, 2024
IDA faces many headwinds—difficult aid politics in key donor countries; a high-interest rate environment that renders its financial model less efficient; and deteriorating credit quality in many of its client countries that makes risk taking less appealing. Breaking the $100 billion mark is not a po...
lobal business and economy