This DEBrief summarizes the results of the study, Measuring the Contribution of Development Projects to Employment: IDB Invest’s Pilot Framework, which is part of IDB Invest’s Development through the Private Sector Series.

Assessing the impact of development bank projects on employment is an ongoing challenge, and there is currently no universally accepted approach. To address this challenge, IDB Invest developed a pilot framework for measuring the contribution of a portfolio of development projects to employment and applied it to its active portfolio in 2024.