Country Partnership Framework for the Republic of Niger for the Period of FY18-FY22
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) presents the World Bank Group (WBG) program for Niger for the period FY18-FY22. The CPF comes at an opportune moment as an exceptional volume of resources is now available to Niger, allowing the WBG to inten...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/466811523970978067/Niger-Country-partnership-framework-for-the-period-of-FY18-FY22 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29704 |
| Summary: | This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
presents the World Bank Group (WBG) program for Niger for
the period FY18-FY22. The CPF comes at an opportune moment
as an exceptional volume of resources is now available to
Niger, allowing the WBG to intensify and deepen its
engagement in Niger. It will succeed the FY13-FY16 Country
Partnership Strategy (CPS), and is aligned with the second
Plan for Economic and Social Development (Plan de
Développement Economique et Social - PDES) prepared by the
Government of Niger (GoN) within the context of its Vision
2035. The CPF draws on a comprehensive Systematic Country
Diagnostic (SCD)2 completed in FY17, which identified growth
constraints and opportunities to achieving the World Bank’s
Twin Goals of eliminating poverty and fostering shared
prosperity in a socially and environmentally sustainable
way. It also reflects the GoN’s commitment to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its
responsibilities and priorities around climate change
mitigation and adaptation. The overarching goal of the CPF
is to help safeguard and accelerate Niger’s economic and
social development, by tackling growth constraints,
unsustainable population growth and other fundamental (and
emerging) drivers of fragility. In the short term, and
within this overarching goal, the FY18-FY22 CPF will not
only focus on boosting rural productivity and incomes, and
strengthening human capital and governance, but also on
empowering women and girls, a key strategy to reverse
Niger’s record high levels of fertility and population
growth. In the medium-term, reduced demographic pressures
are expected to unleash women’s economic potential and free
up public resources for improving basic service delivery,
which in turn will enable further empowerment of women and
girls in a self-sustaining virtuous circle. The CPF will
also address fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) risks by
supporting Niger’s response to existing crises and by
helping to reduce rising tensions. This will require
targeting resources to the most fragile and crisis-affected
regions and directly addressing other drivers of conflict
and fragility, such as youth disenfranchisement, grievances
over allocation of government resources, and competition for
scarce natural resources. Strengthening institutions will be
critical to manage these risks and support social cohesion.
The CPF draws on the combined contribution of the WBG
including renewed efforts by the International Finance
Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency (MIGA) to derisk private investment in Niger. This
CPF sets out a strategy for achieving a crucial change of
trajectory financed by a doubling of resources relative to
the previous CPS. The program draws on new sources of
financing available under the International Development
Association (IDA), including enhanced country allocation
with additional resources from the Risk Mitigation Regime
(RMR)3, and potential access to the Refugees Sub-Window, the
Regional Integration Window, and other IDA windows. Total
IDA resources available in IDA18 could be over US$1 billion,
which represents an unprecedented opportunity to upgrade and
expand the scope of the WBG’s assistance in Niger. |
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