Mali Country Partnership Framework for the Period FY2026-FY2031

World Bank

Mali Country Partnership Framework for the Period FY2026-FY2031

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World Bank

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Washington, DC: World Bank

Descripción

This Completion and Learning Review (CLR) assesses CPF implementation in the official FY16-20 period while also summarizing WBG activities and lessons through 2021, providing ratings of program performance and WBG performance based solely on the CPF period, along with a brief stocktaking of the evolution of the portfolio in 2021/22 and capturing lessons from both the CPF period and FY21/22 to inform a proposed Country Engagement Note (CEN) for FY23-24, with program performance assessed against the revised CPF matrix in the PLR per WBG policy. Following an Interim Strategy Note for FY14-15 after Mali's 2012 coup, the World Bank Group (WBG) designed a CPF covering FY16-19 aimed at improving rural incomes and addressing Mali's fragility drivers and key binding constraints to poverty reduction, channeling a substantial lending and knowledge program amid hopes of a return to peace and stability under the 2015 Algiers Peace Accord across three Focus Areas: improved governance focused on public resource management and citizen engagement; creation of economic opportunities through support for agricultural productivity, value chains, infrastructure, and connectivity; and building resilience through human capital and social safety nets. Recognizing Mali's fragility and security challenges, the CPF was designed to be flexible, programming only the first two years, and a Performance and Learning Review delivered in August 2019 extended the CPF through FY20, confirming the framework's broad relevance and largely on-track progress while documenting persistent challenges with political instability, the spread of violence from northern to central zones, and slow progress on the Peace Accord, with only modest changes made to the results matrix. Late in the CPF period, Mali faced pandemic-related challenges followed by intensifying political instability reflected in two coups and international sanctions in the second half of 2020 and 2021. The CPF focuses on three interrelated outcomes: a healthier, better educated, and more skilled population under Universal Health Coverage (UHC); increased access to electricity under Mission 300 (M300); and higher agricultural productivity and food security under AgriConnect.