55.9% and 55.4% were the rates of male and female informality in ALC (OECD, 2024).

3 out of 10 young women found employment in 2022 (OECD, 2024).

39.6% of youth employment was observed in LAC in 2022 (OECD, 2024).

The project aims to expand access to credit for rural and low-income populations in Colombia, including women micro-entrepreneurs, by providing direct financial support to UNI2, a rural finance institution. The operation is framed under the IDB's Social Entrepreneurship and Small Projects Program (SMP) and aims to improve the financial inclusion of Colombian agricultural producers.

A non-reimbursable technical cooperation aimed at improving agricultural profitability and environmental sustainability in the Peruvian Amazon through a PhyGital (physical and digital) platform that combines AI-based personalized agronomic advisory with traceable distribution of agricultural inputs for small cacao producers in the provinces of Juanjui and Tocache (San Martín). The initiative integrates blockchain-based digital identity, a decentralized network of local entrepreneurs called "Inges Agrayu" with a gender focus, and satellite deforestation monitoring, targeting a 19% productivity increase and a 17% reduction in the local deforestation rate. It was selected through the Amazonía BioBuilders call (RG-O1711) and is framed within the IDB Group's Amazonía Siempre Program, with a projected scale-up to over 20,000 producer families across the Amazon region.

An investment initiative financed by the IDB through the "Development Fund for Colombia-Peru B", aimed at contributing to sustainable socioeconomic and food development of rural communities in the Cross-Border Integration Zone (ZIF) of Alto Putumayo between Peru and Colombia. It seeks to strengthen cocoa agroforestry systems (SAF), improve food security and dietary diversity with a gender focus, and consolidate territorial governance and binational coordination for the sustainable management of the territory. The initiative operates in an Amazonian border context, promoting institutional and community coordination between both countries as a pillar of sustainability and inclusion.

Chile’s National Rural Development Policy is a strategic framework that guides public action to improve quality of life and expand opportunities in rural areas. It adopts a territorial and intersectoral approach, promoting coordination across government levels and stakeholders. It is structured around four pillars: social well-being, economic opportunities, environmental sustainability, and culture and identity, aiming to reduce territorial gaps and foster sustainable rural development.

The Public Policy for Young People (PPPJ 2026-2030) is the strategic instrument of the State of Costa Rica to advance the effective exercise of the rights of young people throughout the country. Built collectively from the proposals and perspectives of youth, it establishes priority actions and coordinates institutions around autonomy, comprehensive well-being, participation, and equitable access to opportunities for young people. Strategic pillars: 1) Prevention of violence: safe and protective environments for youth; 2) Mental health as a right and collective care; 3) Entrepreneurship: youth-driven momentum for economic transformation; 4) Employment: building inclusive career pathways; 5) Relevant and innovative education for human development; 6) Participation and public services for the inclusion and well-being of youth.

aw No. 15,178/2025 establishes Brazil’s National Policy for Youth and Rural Succession and its corresponding National Plan. The law integrates actions to secure rights, promote productive inclusion, and ensure the permanence of rural youth in agricultural territories, providing access to land, credit, education, infrastructure, political participation, and technical training. Its central objective is to strengthen family farming, foster generational succession, and support sustainable rural development across Brazil.

This initiative is a Specific Investment Loan operation (HO-L1259) in Honduras, to be executed by ICF, aimed at conserving and restoring forest cover and associated ecosystem services in prioritized areas. Its overall objective is to conserve and restore forest cover, with specific objectives to: (i) increase adoption of forest and agroforestry practices (AFS/SPS) that expand forest cover, (ii) diversify livelihoods in community forestry, and (iii) strengthen ICF’s institutional capacity for forest conservation and management. The project targets selected municipalities in Olancho, Yoro, Atlántida, Colón and El Paraíso, prioritized through environmental and social criteria related to restoration, hydrology and climate vulnerability, among others. The components include: (I) implementation of agroforestry and silvopastoral systems through technical assistance and technology packages, (II) community forest management via business plans, integrated technical assistance and knowledge exchanges, and (III) institutional strengthening of ICF (forest registry/monitoring, wildfire risk prevention/management, regulatory updates, and land tenure-related aspects). Total financing is US$25 million (60% regular and 40% concessional ordinary capital), with Category B environmental and social classification and Substantial E&S risk, supported by required E&S management instruments (ESA/ESMP/SEP) and applicable Environmental and Social Performance Standards.

This initiative seeks to strengthen sustainable agroforestry productive systems in coffee farms that contribute to the closure of the agricultural frontier for deforestation reduction and income generation for small rural producers. The project includes the establishment of approximately 2,000 hectares of agroforestry systems through planting 500,000 forest trees, strengthening 600 hectares of existing coffee plantations, and strengthening the productive process for environmental impact reduction. A gender-focused agroforestry extension program will be implemented including technical training, commercial plans and voluntary zero deforestation agreements. The initiative will benefit small coffee producers in the departments of Cesar, Magdalena, Santander and Norte de Santander, prioritizing vulnerable populations, indigenous, Afro-Colombian and peasant communities with a minimum of 25% women participation.

Solidarity Communities is an intervention that seeks to provide comprehensive care to families and people facing higher levels of poverty and social exclusion in urban and rural areas of the country. It is a government program that seeks to materialize the effective exercise of population rights and is contained within the Universal Social Protection System. It comprises non-contributory interventions that allow expanding basic capacities and promoting equal opportunities for people, communities and households in conditions of extreme poverty and social exclusion. It is developed through four strategic axes: human capital, basic social infrastructure, income generation and territorial management.