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Learn from your global peers about replicable solutions, adapt them to your country’s context, and accelerate development impact. Participating countries are selected based on their readiness to implement reforms, including public–private job creation initiatives.
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Impact Programs
Insuring Against Disaster Risk
Increasing financial resilience of countries to climate shocks and disasters. -
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Accelerating Urban E-Mobility Solutions
Improving access to sustainable transport infrastructure and services. -
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Creating Jobs for the Poor
Scaling-up economic inclusion programs aimed to create jobs and build pathways out of poverty. -
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Scaling Next Generation Rice
Making rice more sustainable, resilient and productive. -
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Unlocking the Potential of Active Debt Management
Enhancing external oversight of debt management policies, decisions, and operations. -
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Defying Drought (D2)
Catalyzing the scale-up and adoption of drought resilience building measures. -
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Powering Sustainable Energy Utilities
Improving access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy. -
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Sustaining Health Financing
Enhancing the design and implementation of health system reforms. -
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Creating More & Better Jobs through Local Value Chains
Enabling growth and job creation by strengthening value chains. -
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Mobilizing Domestic Revenues
Strengthening fiscal stability through effective tax reforms and revenue strategies. -
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Repurposing Agricultural Support for Soil Health
Helping countries improve fertilizer policies to enhance soil health, jobs, and productivity.
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Education
Improving access to education ensures everyone gains quality learning and essential skills, reinforcing education’s role as a driver of development. Yet a global learning crisis persists, making urgent action crucial to stronger and equitable education systems. -
Health, Nutrition, and Population
Universal Health Coverage ensures everyone, especially the most vulnerable, has access to quality, affordable care. By addressing challenges like aging populations and non-communicable diseases, countries can build stronger, more resilient health systems that save lives and drive sustainable development. -
Social Protection and Labor
Access to social protection is crucial for ending extreme poverty and boosting prosperity. Effective social protection systems enhance resilience against shocks, drive economic growth, and improve health, education, and livelihoods through adaptive solutions and inclusive policies.
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Agriculture
Healthy, sustainable, and inclusive food systems are key to achieving global development goals, with agriculture playing a crucial role in eradicating extreme poverty. Despite challenges like climate change and food insecurity, the food system offers opportunities to reduce emissions, drive growth, and support entrepreneurship. -
Climate
Climate, conflict, and economic challenges highlight the need for prompt action to ensure a sustainable future. Exploring strategies for building climate-resilient infrastructure, adapting agriculture, and mobilizing finance can support a greener, more inclusive future for all. -
Environment
Sustainable natural resource management is essential for inclusive growth, food security, and poverty reduction. Explore strategies to combat climate change, protect ecosystems, and integrate nature-smart policies into development for a healthier, more resilient planet. -
Water
Water is central to development, driving growth, supporting ecosystems, and linking directly to nearly every Sustainable Development Goal. Despite challenges in access to safe water and sanitation, optimizing water use and prioritizing equity can build resilient communities.
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Economic Policy
To accelerate sustainable economic growth, developing countries must tackle a variety of challenges. These include low levels of productivity, inefficient public spending, inadequate domestic resource mobilization, price distortions from fiscal systems that discourage sustainability, lack of economic resilience, elevated debt levels, and the rising risks posed by climate change. -
Finance
Fostering private sector-led growth and market creation requires expertise in finance and private sector development, along with collaboration with governments to improve investment conditions. This area focuses on supporting economies to attain financial stability, innovation and risk management.Capital Markets -
Institutions
Governments face increasing challenges that highlight the need for a renewed social contract and stronger public trust. Enhancing governance, combating corruption, and building resilient institutions are key to delivering services efficiently, supporting private sector growth, and promoting sustainable development. -
Poverty
After a period of significant progress, a series of overlapping crises and shocks have caused a slowdown today in global poverty reduction. Extreme poverty has become increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and places impacted by conflict and fragility. Jobs are the most effective way to defeat poverty – they provide a pathway out of poverty, empower women, give hope to younger generations, and build stronger communities. -
Trade, Investment and Competitiveness
Fostering private sector-led growth and market creation requires expertise in finance and private sector development, along with collaboration with governments to improve investment conditions. This area focuses on supporting economies to attain financial stability, innovation and risk management.
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Energy and Extractives
Energy is crucial for development, driving innovation, jobs, and inclusive growth. The transition to renewable energy offers a transformative opportunity to provide sustainable power while mitigating climate change, and with the right investments, we can close the energy access gap and unlock economic opportunities for all. -
Sustainable Infrastructure Finance
Quality, sustainable, low-carbon, and inclusive infrastructure is essential for a livable planet, yet billions lack access to basic services like electricity, clean water, and sanitation. With the right policies and private investment, we can build resilient, climate-friendly infrastructure that drives economic growth and improves lives. -
Transport
Transport is vital for economic growth and access to services, yet one billion people are still far from all-weather roads, and road crashes claim over 1.19 million lives annually. Investments in public transport, cleaner technologies, and efficient systems are essential to improving transport, driving development, and enhancing lives. -
Urban Development
Over half of the world’s population lives in cities, and as urban growth accelerates, cities will continue to play a vital role in economic growth while facing challenges like housing shortages and increased demand for services. Investing in sustainable, inclusive infrastructure is essential to create resilient cities and ensure opportunities for all.
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Digital Transformation
Digitalization is transforming essential services like healthcare and education, yet nearly one-third of the global population remains offline. Closing the digital divide, improving skills, and investing in digital infrastructure and cybersecurity are crucial to building safe, inclusive systems and achieving universal broadband access.
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Jobs
Jobs are the most reliable pathway out of poverty, yet many young people in developing countries face limited opportunities, especially women and youth. Prioritizing a jobs agenda is the need of the hour to address this global challenge, creating higher-paying jobs, fostering growth, and tackling issues like climate change, education, and access to financing. -
Gender
Gender development is critical to unlocking economic productivity, reducing poverty, and improving social cohesion. Addressing challenges like gender-based violence and expand economic opportunities for women is essential as as growing evidence shows that empowering women enhances economic outcomes, strengthens resilience, and fosters social progress. -
Data
Data is a powerful tool for driving development and achieving impact. When countries have access to timely and reliable data, they can make better decisions, design more effective policies, and monitor progress in real time. Yet, many developing countries still face data gaps that hinder planning and service delivery. Investing in data systems helps governments and partners uncover insights, track inequality, improve targeting, and respond quickly to crises. Strengthening data capacity is essential to making development more inclusive, accountable, and results-driven.
