About Metis

REGIONAL PLATFORM FOR KNOWLEDGE
About Metis

METIS organizes, documents, and display structured information about the Financial Institutions Development of Latin America and the Caribbean.

OUR PLATFORM
What is METIS?

A regional project of data and knowledge that consolidates financial information, operational and institutional levels in order to facilitate the analysis, the transparency and reusability.


Structured data

Financial information, operational and institutional with homogeneous criteria.

Analysis for decisions

Visualizations and tools to identify trends and patterns.

Regional coverage

Information on Institutions Financial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Access and reuse

Data, documentation, and publications for research and analysis.

METHODOLOGY
How to build the data

A transparent process to ensure consistency, traceability and update.

1. Identification of sources

Institutional sources, and officially recognized.

2. Approval and validation

Standardization of terminology, definitions, units and formats.

3. Integration in METIS

Organization in a common structure and documented.

4. Continuous update

Periodic review and record versions.

METIS IN FIGURES
Coverage and scope

+ 20

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean

+ 100

Development Financial institutions

2010 - 2024

Historical Coverage

Multiple sources

Financial and operational information

DOCUMENTATION
Resources to deepen

Methodological framework
Principles, approaches and criteria for the construction of the data.

Data dictionary
Variable definitions, classifications, units and sources.

Policy update
Frequency, responsibilities, versioning and revision.

Sources and definitions
List of official sources and methodological references.

EVOLUTION OF THE PROJECT
Institutional trajectory and methodological METIS

A synthesis of the milestones that explain the progressive consolidation of the information assets of ALIDE and its transformation into a regional platform of data and knowledge.

Creation of ALIDE

Acquis regional information

Since its creation, ALIDE has collected a comprehensive set of data sets and variables on development financial institutions, initially scattered and not systematized in a regional system unified.

2010

Approval regional

It drives a project aimed to standardize and harmonize financial databases IFD of Latin America and the Caribbean, establishing common criteria of structure and comparability.

2024

Update and systematization

Updated the historical bases and systematizing new data sets, expanding the thematic coverage and to strengthen the traceability of variables and sources.

From 2025

Joint international

In the framework of FiCS, ALIDE establish contact with global projects database and formulates a methodology to integrate and harmonize these sources with its own information assets.

2026

Platform design

The project starts from the creation of a platform and a database architecture to present, document, and visualize the bases and variables developed by ALIDE.

A REGIONAL INITIATIVE
An initiative of ALIDE in the framework of FiCS with the support of the French Development Agency

METIS is conceived as a regional infrastructure of knowledge to organize, integrate, document, and put in value the information assets of ALIDE on development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean.

RESPONSIBLE INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT

Economic Studies program and Information of ALIDE

Kevin Alvaro Parties Garcia

Economic Studies program and Information of ALIDE. Coordinator of METIS and head of the Center for Information and Knowledge of ALIDE (CICO).

Romy Calderon Rhinoceros

Corporate oversight and strategic support for the development and consolidation of the platform.