Tag Archive | Inter-American Development Bank
Mexico: IDB loans US$ 600 million to improve water, sanitation and hygiene in rural communities and schools
Two Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loans will help bring drinking water to 630,000 people, upgrade water and sanitation facilities in 20,000 schools, and reduce water-borne illnesses among 1.3 million students. The first loan, for US$ 350 million, will finance the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Basic Education Program, that combines improvements in the physical infrastructure […]
Paraguay: IDB, Spanish govt approve US$ 52 million for rural water programme
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Spanish government’s cooperation fund for water and sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean (FCAS) will contribute US$52mn to a program to provide potable water and sanitation services to rural and indigenous communities in Paraguay. Paraguayan finance minister Dionisio Borda and IDB president Luis Alberto Moreno signed the […]
Guatemala: US$ 100 million from Spain and the IDB to improve water and sanitation services
Thanks to US$ 50 million in grants from Spain and US$ 50 million in loans from the Inter-American Development (IDB) Guatemala will expand safe water and sanitation services to approximately 600,000 people in 280 rural communities and 60 urban and periurban areas that today lack those services. In addition to enhancing and expanding water and […]
Colombia: IDB approves US$250mn for water programs
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$1.3bn loan to Colombia aimed at infrastructure works, as well as soothing the effects of the global economic crisis in the country. [This includes] US$250mn [for] water programs [in the form of] rapid disbursement loans. Potable water and sanitation programs for Pasto, the capital of Nariño department, […]
Latin America: IDB prepares first capitalization since 1995
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is carrying out studies to determine the magnitude of what will be its first capitalization since 1995, aimed at coping with Latin America’s future financing needs, the development bank’s president Luis Alberto Moreno told [news agency] BNamericas. The entity has tasked an advisory group led by former Peruvian prime minister […]
Latin America: IDB launches $600 million credit facility for natural disaster emergencies
A new Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) $600 million contingent credit facility will be available to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean better cope with natural disasters. [...] All member countries will be eligible to receive facility loans of up to $100 million or 1% of their gross domestic product, whichever is less. Countries […]
IDB offers grants to jump-start water and sanitation projects
Latin American and Caribbean governments that want to improve water and sanitation services can now apply for grants from the Aquafund, a new source of financing approved by the board of the Inter-American Development Bank on 19 September 2008. The Aquafund is a fast-disbursing vehicle intended to help accelerate the development of projects in the […]
