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The Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDBG) and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
IDBG has made internal changes to better support the SDGs
Finance
The IDBG has made changes to maximize its financial capacity (e.g., balance sheet optimization)
The IDBG has ramped up efforts to mobilize and crowd-in private finance
Structure
A new cross-sectoral department was established in 2016 to mainstream sustainability across the bank.
A public-private coordination team was established to improve delivery of integrated public-private solutions and catalyzation of private sector finance
Processes
The IDBG has developed along with other Multilateral Development Banks and the IMF a harmonized methodology to track and report climate finance and private finance mobilized
The IDBG treats climate change and environmental sustainability as cross-cutting issues that are increasingly mainstreamed in the project design process
