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— Markets & Countries

The major multilateral development banks, with their procurement shown as it actually comes in.

Institutional pages for the World Bank Group, AfDB, ADB, IDB, IsDB, EBRD and AIIB: capital, membership and pipeline, plus live notice counts and a plain account of each bank's data-feed status.

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Live: World Bank and IDB ingestion; notice counts from the platform’s notice storePartial: Other banks are probed daily; some, such as the ADB, block server-side accessMethodology
Feed-health badgesIllustrative
  • Live FeedLatest ingestion outcome, status and rows writtenLive Feed
  • ReachableLatest ingestion outcome, status and rows writtenReachable
  • No Public APILatest ingestion outcome, status and rows writtenNo Public API
  • UnreachableLatest ingestion outcome, status and rows writtenUnreachable

One development-bank source is checked each day in rotation.

— Overview

What Development Banks does.

Development Banks covers the multilateral lenders that finance much of the world's public infrastructure: the World Bank Group, the African, Asian, Inter-American and Islamic Development Banks, the EBRD and the AIIB. Each has its own page with headquarters, member countries, subscribed capital, pipeline and focus sectors.

Each page also shows procurement activity counted directly from the platform's notices table: total notices, open tenders still within their deadline, and contract awards. If that count cannot be loaded, the page says the data is unavailable. It does not show zeros that would suggest the bank published nothing.

Ingestion runs on a daily rotation across MDB portals, and each page shows that bank's latest feed status: Live Feed, Reachable, No Public API, or Unreachable. Today the World Bank and the IDB are fully ingested through their open-data APIs. Other banks are probed daily, and some, such as the ADB, block server-side access. We report that openly instead of padding coverage.

— Capabilities

What you can do with it.

The core of Development Banks, as it works inside the platform today.

Institutional pages

Headquarters, member countries, subscribed capital, active pipeline and focus sectors for each development bank.

  • Real procurement counts

    Total notices, open tenders and awards for each bank, counted live from the platform's notice store.

  • Feed-health badges

    Each bank's latest ingestion outcome, with HTTP status, rows written and last check time, shown as Live Feed, Reachable, No Public API or Unreachable.

  • Daily MDB rotation

    One development-bank portal is checked or ingested each day, so coverage grows without hammering any single source.

  • Co-financing context

    Development-bank pipelines link to country profiles and sovereign risk, so co-financing opportunities can be read against the borrower's credit.

  • Links to official portals

    Every bank links to its own procurement site for the authoritative notice and documents.

— How it works

From source record to decision.

  1. Rotate

    Each day the ingestion job picks the next development-bank source in a fixed rotation.

  2. Ingest or probe

    Banks with an open API (World Bank, IDB) have notices and projects ingested. Others are probed to record whether a feed is reachable.

  3. Record health

    The outcome, HTTP status and rows written go to a source-health ledger, which the bank's page reads.

  4. Count activity

    Each page counts that bank's notices, open tenders and awards directly from the notice store.

— Data sources

Where the data comes from.

Official and licensed institutional sources. Every record keeps its source and a link back to the original.

  • World Bank

    Notices, projects and pipeline through the search.worldbank.org API.

  • Inter-American Development Bank

    Notices and projects through the IDB open-data API.

  • EBRD, AfDB, ADB, IsDB and other MDB portals

    Probed daily. Ingested where a public feed allows. Status is shown openly where it does not.

See every source and its tier on the data sources page, and how each is scored in the methodology.

— Who it’s for

Who uses it, and for what.

  • A man in glasses working at a large screen in a dim studio, colleagues behind himFor

    Contractors and consultants

    Track development-bank-funded tenders, which follow stricter, more predictable procurement rules than many national systems.
  • A woman showing a printed drawing to colleagues beside a laptop displaying chartsFor

    DFIs and co-financiers

    See peer institutions' pipelines and the countries they lend into.
  • A top-down view of several people stacking their hands togetherFor

    Business-development teams

    Check which banks are actively publishing before choosing where to watch for opportunities.

— Questions

Frequently asked.

Do you ingest every development bank?

Not yet. The World Bank and the IDB are fully ingested. Other banks are probed daily, and their feed status is shown on their page. Some, such as the ADB, block automated server-side access.

Are the capital and pipeline figures official?

They are headline reference figures for orientation. Confirm current numbers in the bank's own annual reporting.

What does 'No Public API' mean?

The bank's procurement portal blocks or has no machine-readable feed. Its notices cannot be ingested until a licensed feed or an approved access route exists.

Where do I find the full tender documents?

Each page links to the bank's official procurement portal, which holds the authoritative notice and documents.

— Get started

See Development Banks on live data.

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