Author Bio
Maryline Penedo
Maryline Penedo is currently a Principal Officer in IDB Invest’s Development Impact Division. With extensive experience in impact measurement across various sectors, she has been pivotal in conceptualizing and positioning IDB Invest’s Impact Management Framework, particularly its DELTA scoring tool. Since 2019, she has spearheaded the consolidation and automation of IDB Invest’s impact monitoring system, enabling the institution to better understand and enhance its impact performance at both the portfolio and sectoral/country levels. She also worked in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic on economic empowerment initiatives for women through IDB Lab, the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund, and UN Women. Maryline joined the IDB Group as a Young Professional in 2013. She holds a MS in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MA in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris in France, and is a former Fulbright scholar.
Posts by Maryline Penedo
Every Year We Ask Ourselves, Are We Making a Difference?
As part of IDB Invest’s end-to-end Impact Management Framework, we closely monitor the impact performance of our portfolio and report on results in our annual Development Effectiveness Overview. Read on to learn the highlights from 2024’s report.
How Are We Doing? Five Takeaways from Our Annual Impact Management Report
Multilateral development banks play a critical role in catalyzing private sector investment towards impact, which calls for robust impact management approaches. In addition to sharing how we do it (impact management practice), reporting on how we are doing (impact performance) is an essential element of our Impact Management Framework at IDB Invest, which we do annually through our Development Effectiveness Overview.