8.9% of the 497 productive articulation initiatives (PAI) (20 countries, 2023–2025) prioritize product or process innovation as their strategic focus, according to the report (ECLAC, 2025).

188 initiatives correspond to manufacturing industries in the report’s IAP mapping, making it the second sectoral category (ECLAC, 2025).

31% increase in self-employment income among households with longer participation in the AGROIDEAS iniciative (MIDAGRI, 2024).

The project strengthens the competitiveness of family-based organic banana production in the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Ecuador by scaling technological innovations, promoting agronomic practices that reduce pest-related losses and improve soil health, and introducing the Ma$ Banano digital tool for farm management. It builds technical capacity and organizational strength in 12 small-producer associations, directly benefiting 2,400 family farmers involved in organic export markets.

The project aimed to enhance the competitiveness of the organic banana value chain in Piura and La Libertad by promoting technological innovations, organizational strengthening, and institutional coordination. It targeted small-scale producers, supporting productivity improvements through the introduction of in-vitro seedling (meristem) propagation, improved agronomic practices, and quality enhancement via ozone technology for post-harvest phytosanitary control. The intervention also strengthened business and managerial capacities, supported organic and Fairtrade certification, reinforced the Regional Organic Banana Technical Boards, and enabled the installation of more than 200 new hectares under improved technology. Ultimately, the project contributed to better incomes, stronger organizations, and sustainable value chain development.

The Technical Cooperation UR-T1343 aims to generate knowledge to support the design and implementation of the loan “Program for the Promotion of Uruguay’s Internationalization” (UR-L1204). It seeks to strengthen internationalization, innovation, and talent attraction through studies, diagnostics, and consultancies providing evidence and best practices adapted to the national context. The initiative promotes the optimization of investment and export processes, human talent development, and the improvement of trade promotion instruments. It is aligned with the IDB Institutional Strategy 2024–2030 and the Country Strategy with Uruguay 2021–2025, prioritizing sustainable productive development. The beneficiary is the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, and the executing agency is the Inter-American Development Bank.

Law 2539 of 2025 amends Law 160 of 1994 and Decree Law 902 of 2017 to explicitly include rural youth in the National System of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. The law guarantees and prioritizes their progressive access to land, to productive projects aligned with their life plans, to sustainable rural productive activities, academic and technical training, financing mechanisms and associativity. It also secures their participation in territorial governance bodies, creates a specific budget tracer for rural youth, promotes innovation, the use of ICTs, cultural rootedness and special measures for young people who are victims of armed conflict, thereby contributing to comprehensive rural reform with a territorial, generational and ethnic approach.

The Costa Rica National Biodiversity Strategy 2016-2025 is the main implementation instrument of the National Biodiversity Policy 2015-2030, which seeks to reverse the loss and deterioration of biodiversity at different levels: ecosystems, species and genetic resources. The strategy identifies seven priority strategic themes including in situ conservation of the National System of Protected Wild Areas, restoration of terrestrial, marine-coastal and freshwater ecosystems, territorial planning, and strengthening of governance and citizen participation. The policy framework establishes 23 global goals by 2025, 98 national goals by 2020 and has a portfolio of 41 active programs and projects with USD 100 million in funding for the 2016-2020 period. The strategy was developed through an extensive participatory process with more than 1,021 people including indigenous peoples, local communities, private sector, academia and government institutions, under human rights, gender, ecosystem and results-based management approaches.

The Practical Guide for the Issuance of Thematic Securities is a document developed by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MMARN), the Superintendence of the Securities Market (SIMV), the Association of Multiple Banks (ABA) and the Stock Exchange and Securities Market of the Dominican Republic (BVRD) with technical support from the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). This guide establishes practical guidelines to facilitate the issuance of green, social and sustainable securities in the Dominican market, aligned with international standards such as the Green Bond Principles (GBP), Social Bond Principles (SBP) and the Sustainability Bond Guidelines (SBG) of ICMA. It provides a detailed roadmap on the steps, regulatory requirements, project evaluation and selection processes, fund management and impact reporting necessary to structure these issuances. The main objective is to mobilize capital towards projects that address environmental and social challenges, supporting the implementation of the Dominican Republic's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The guide also integrates the Green Taxonomy of the Dominican Republic and promotes transparency, credibility and integrity in the country's thematic securities market.

The project seeks to improve the productivity and sustainability of rice cultivation in Colombia through an innovative technological solution that combines Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems. This technology, developed by PS Solutions (Softbank Group), transforms agriculture into a science based on data by collecting real-time information from the environment and crops to determine optimal levels of agricultural parameters. The project will benefit 16,000 Colombian rice farmers, especially small producers from areas affected by armed conflicts who face productivity problems due to lack of access to technologies and financial services. Additionally, e-kakashi contributes to solving environmental problems by optimizing water use and reducing methane emissions from rice paddies, which represent approximately 20% of global emissions of this gas. The project has two phases: demonstration of efficacy under real conditions in collaboration with CIAT and commercial expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean, combining non-reimbursable technical cooperation (up to US$500,000) with equity investment (up to US$1,500,000).

The Canada Green Bond Program finances projects that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation through investments in clean transportation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and environmental conservation. Resources come from sovereign green bond issuances managed by the Government of Canada, allocated according to the country’s Green Bond Framework. During the 2023–2024 period, funds were directed to projects with measurable impacts on greenhouse gas emissions reduction and climate resilience enhancement. The initiative supports the transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy. Its implementation adheres to ICMA Green Bond Principles and international environmental disclosure standards.

The initiative develops the Natural Capital Lab as the IDB Group’s platform to drive innovation in the sustainable use and conservation of terrestrial and marine natural capital in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through applied research, technological tools (including WebGIS), and dissemination, it will support knowledge generation, idea incubation, and testing of financial and business models to value and protect natural capital. It will strengthen multi‑stakeholder dialogues and partnerships and align work across IDBG departments and external partners to strategically position natural capital. The beneficiaries are the IDB borrowing member countries and execution is led by the IDB through the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector (CSD/CSD). Funding comes from the Ordinary Capital Strategic Development Program for Sustainability (SUS), with a 24‑month execution period.