Skip to main content
IDA19 Retrospective: Responding to Multiple Crises on the Road to 2030: Growth, People, Resilience

IDA19 Retrospective

This Retrospective reviews IDA’s delivery during what may have been its most challenging cycle to date. Even against a backdrop of large reversals in member countries, IDA managed to deliver results by balancing countries’ immediate needs with delivery against longer-term development priorities.

Responding to Multiple Crises on the Road to 2030: Growth, People, Resilience

The 19th replenishment was initially designed to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The context soon changed dramatically when COVID-19 became a global pandemic. IDA responded rapidly and at scale, redirecting its focus to address the rapidly spreading health emergency as well as the substantial economic fallout, which was reversing decades of poverty reduction. This meant that, for the first time since IDA’s inception, a replenishment cycle was shortened from three to two years (July 2020-June 2022) to enable significant surge financing to countries.

IDA19 Retrospective | Executive Summary

Executive Summary: Arabic | Chinese | French | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish

  • The World Bank
  • The World Bank
  • The World Bank
  • The World Bank
  • The World Bank
  • The World Bank