Pressures of the COVID-19 crisis prompted IDA to accelerate financing commitments last year and launch an early replenishment. This made for a moment of much-needed international solidarity in support of the poorest countries’ needs. Photo: World Bank
We are in a crisis a crisis that is touching all corners and crevices of life. Health, lives, livelihoods, and futures are on the line. The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis are remarkably pronounced in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries.
It is in times like this that we urgently and desperately need demonstrations of solidarity and community support. Last week, we bore witness to such a moment of global solidarity during the launch of negotiations of the 20th replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA) the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries. We saw representatives of developed and developing countries join forces with a focused, determined eye to the end goal: a green, inclusive, and re