We structure every project with development in mind, and we are serious about tracking, measuring, assessing and reporting on results. This helps us to make a greater impact, gives confidence to our partners and provides valuable feedback to our clients.
Achieving Maximum Impact
As the private sector arm of the IDB Group, IDB Invest is leveraging decades of experience as an impact investor to serve as a gateway to SDG impact in Latin America and the Caribbean.
IDB Invest’s mandate is to maximize development impact while maintaining financial sustainability, a two-sided objective shared with many impact investors. To crowd in private capital, we offer our strong capacity to select and structure projects with the greatest impact potential, manage ESG risks, and build a strong pipeline of SDG-enabling investment opportunities in the region.
As a member of the IDB Group, we can also leverage the IDB’s public policy and regulatory expertise, as well as IDB Lab’s capacity for building innovation ecosystems and financing inclusive early-stage ventures.
What it Means to Invest for Impact
As the appetite for impact continues to grow and more investors adopt the impact label, it is increasingly important to converge around a shared understanding of what it means to invest for impact. It is one thing to integrate ESG factors into responsible investment decision-making as a screening tool, and another to intentionally pursue investments with the purpose of generating a net positive, measurable social or environmental impact alongside financial returns. To address this challenge a group of MDBs, DFIs, banks, impact asset managers, asset owners, and industry associations, including IDB Invest developed the Operating Principles for Impact Management.
The Principles provide a framework to guide investors on the integration of impact considerations throughout the investment lifecycle. As a signatory to the Principles, IDB Invest publicly discloses, on an annual basis, the alignment of our impact management systems with the Principles and, at regular intervals, arranges for independent verification of this alignment. The following documents are IDB Invest’s annual disclosure statements, as well as the independent verification of alignment provided by the IDB Group’s independent Office of the Executive Auditor.
Documents
INDEPENDENT VERIFIER STATEMENT - DECEMBER 2025
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2026 IDB INVEST DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
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2024 IDB INVEST DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
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INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF ALIGNMENT - APRIL 2024
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DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: OPERATING PRINCIPLES FOR IMPACT MANAGEMENT - APRIL 2023
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DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: OPERATING PRINCIPLES FOR IMPACT MANAGEMENT - APRIL 2022
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DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: OPERATING PRINCIPLES FOR IMPACT MANAGEMENT - APRIL 2021
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INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF ALIGNMENT - MAY 2021
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DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: OPERATING PRINCIPLES FOR IMPACT MANAGEMENT - APRIL 2020
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INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF ALIGNMENT - APRIL 2020
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Our Assessment Tools
The DELTA Tool (for Development Effectiveness Learning, Tracking and Assessment), which has set a new benchmark for other organizations committed to development tracks each project at every step of the project cycle. It allows us to standardize how we score and analyze different aspects, such as:
• How well does the project align with the IDB Group’s development priorities?
• What are the potential economic returns for IDB Invest and for the client?
• To what extent will the project produce social benefits?
• How can its development impact be accurately assessed and verified?
