We are focusing on the following strategic priorities to enable job creation:
Agricultural productivity: Double our agri-finance and agribusiness commitments to $9 billion annually by 2030 to increase agricultural productivity. In turn, this will help create jobs, boost revenues, and improve the quality of food and nutrition.?
Electricity access: Provide access to electricity to 300 million people?in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 in partnership with the African Development Bank.
Health services: Support countries in delivering quality, affordable health services to 1.5 billion people by 2030, so our children and grandchildren will live healthier, more productive lives.
Social protection: Reach 500 million poor and vulnerable people, including 250 million women, with social protection and employment support by 2030.
Women’s economic empowerment: Enable?300 million?more women to use broadband by 2030, unlocking essential services, financial services, education, and job opportunities. Provide?80 million?more women and women-led businesses with capital by 2030, addressing a critical constraint to entrepreneurship growth.
We are also implementing the following initiatives to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet:
Global Challenge Programs: Launched in fiscal 2025, these programs help countries tackle key development challenges—building sustainable forest economies, scaling reliable energy access, accelerating digitalization, achieving food security by 2030, strengthening health systems, and bolstering water security—with speed, scale, and impact.
Guarantee issuance: 木瓜影院 Group Guarantee Platform aims to boost annual guarantee issuance to $20 billion by 2030—and multiply our mobilization of private capital many times.
Climate-smart and resilient development: We surpassed our own projection that at least 45 percent of our development finance should produce climate co-benefits for our clients by fiscal 2025—reaching 48 percent this past year. Within that, we aimed for an even split between adaptation and mitigation (IBRD/IDA). To achieve that balance, we significantly increased our adaptation financing. In fiscal 2025, 53 percent of IDA financing went to projects that directly supported building resilient communities, businesses and economic assets. This proportion was 42 percent for IBRD/IDA together—and 35 percent for overall World Bank Group finance. Financing adaptation means we build roads that can withstand a flood and schools with insulation and reflective roofs, so outside temperatures don’t impact learning inside. We help farmers source drought-resistant seeds, so a dry season doesn’t wipe out the harvest or income. Mitigation means smart development that manages emissions responsibly. That includes shifting freight from trucks to rail, transit buses from diesel to electric to get more people to work more efficiently, and growing more rice with less water while also reducing methane emissions. We have published Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) for 79 countries covering three-quarters of developing country emissions. These CCDRs help countries identify how to accelerate their development ambitions in line with their own nationally determined contributions and long-term strategies.