Innovation for Greater Impact

Innovation helps IDA countries make scarce resources go further, create jobs, and deliver better services to their people. As the World Bank Group’s fund for low-income countries, IDA brings together financing, knowledge, and partnerships to help countries develop new solutions, adapt approaches that have worked elsewhere, and expand those that deliver results.

For IDA, innovation means improving both what we support and how we deliver. It can take the form of technology that helps farmers anticipate weather risks, tools that support health workers in reaching underserved communities, or new approaches that connect young people with skills and jobs. It also means better policies, stronger institutions, and financing and delivery models that help countries respond more effectively to development challenges.

IDA provides a platform to turn promising ideas into impact at scale. Its long-term country partnerships help connect innovation and experimentation with the sustained investment and institutional capacity needed for wider adoption. Its global reach enables countries to learn from one another, adapting successful approaches to local priorities and conditions.  Innovations originating in IDA countries are also being adapted and scaled in non-IDA countries, highlighting IDA’s role as a source of global innovation, evidence, and learning — which are central to its work.