Strategic Resources
Country Engagement
We are working as one World Bank Group to reduce poverty and enable job creation in client countries. The Country Partnership Framework (CPF) guides our operations in any given country. Our new approach to country engagement is more targeted by prioritizing three to four selected outcomes with an eye toward job creation.
In fiscal 2025, we delivered 19 CPFs and eight Performance and Learning Reviews, which summarize progress made toward CPFs.
The CPFs are complemented by our Country Growth and Jobs reports, which provide a comprehensive analysis of a country's economic developments, prospects, and policy agenda. The reports aim to guide policy decisions and support the country's economic development efforts.
IBRD and IDA offer a variety of financing instruments and approaches to help countries achieve their development goals. These include:
In fiscal 2025, we approved 69 Development Policy Financing operations, totaling $23.6 billion; 49 Program-for-Results operations, of which 10 were additional financing totaling $12.4 billion; and 314 Investment Project Financing operations, of which 108 were additional financing, totaling $44.8 billion. Climate co-benefits reached 49 percent of total IBRD/IDA commitments, including 42 percent for Development Policy Financing, 45 percent for Program-for-Results, and 53 percent for Investment Project Financing.
Our Multiphase Programmatic Approach (MPA) enables countries to structure long, large, or complex engagements into a set of smaller complementary Investment Project Financing and Program-for-Results operations under one program.
This approach facilitates both vertical programs, which involve in-depth, sustained engagement within a single country, and horizontal programs, which encompass multiple countries, states within a country, or subnational entities. In fiscal 2025, the Bank approved 14 vertical and 11 horizontal MPA programs, with up to $7.8 billion and $12.8 billion, respectively. The total amount of new Program financing approved, including additional financing, was $20.5 billion.
As of July 2025, a total of 66 countries have put in place at least one instrument of the Crisis Preparedness and Response Toolkit approved in 2024. With those instruments, countries have pre-arranged contingent resources and Cat Bonds/Insurance, thereby allowing them to focus on disaster recovery.
Advisory Services and Analytics
In fiscal 2025, the Bank produced 872 advisory services and analytics products that addressed critical global topics such as capacity building, climate change, economic growth, energy, governance, jobs, poverty, public administration, and public sector data development.
In fiscal 2025, 49 Reimbursable Advisory Services agreements were signed for a total amount of $124.3 million in 18 countries. These services are requested and paid for by country clients; all member states, including non-borrowing countries, can request them. Our services provided countries with technical assistance, capacity building, and implementation support on topics such as climate change, digital transformation, social safety nets, energy transition, private sector-led growth, public investment management, and agriculture and judicial sector reform.
Support to Small States
Small States—the World Bank Group term for countries with populations of no more than 1.5 million—are particularly susceptible to economic shocks and extreme weather events.
To help Small States address their challenges, we are expanding World Bank Group resources. In fiscal 2025, IBRD/IDA portfolio net commitments to Small States reached $6.1 billion, IFC exposure reached $119 million, and MIGA exposure reached $419 million.
We are also intensifying our focus on climate adaptation for Small States. Twenty-four Small States have already signed on to at least one Crisis Preparedness and Response Toolkit arrangement. In fiscal 2025, we published Country Climate and Development Reports for Cabo Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Montenegro, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, and the Pacific Atolls. Work is in progress for reports on Fiji, Mauritius, S?o Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste.
The annual Small States Forum, held alongside the World Bank Group’s Annual Meetings in October 2024, highlighted the World Bank Group’s innovative financing solutions for Small States. Building on this momentum, we are also developing a dedicated Small States strategy to guide how the World Bank Group supports inclusive and resilient growth in these countries.
For more information, visit /en/country/smallstates.
Budget Management
In fiscal 2025, building on a strong record of delivering results, including record levels of IBRD and IDA disbursements and the rollout of new financing instruments, the Bank took decisive steps to correct internal imbalances and strengthen institutional foundations. Management strengthened its focus on operational effectiveness and efficiency, while addressing structural challenges to better support the evolution agenda.
A key milestone was the Board’s approval of a substantial fiscal 2025 budget increase to reinforce frontline operations, including strengthening knowledge and partnerships, and to modernize systems. Complementing this, the Bank has reformed its business planning and budgeting processes—streamlining workflows, reducing preparation time, and embedding a 5 percent annual productivity savings mechanism—ensuring that resources are better aligned with strategic priorities.
Enhanced Client Engagement
As part of our better Bank agenda, we have merged more than 40 country offices to unify leadership across IFC, MIGA, and the World Bank under a single Country Manager. We plan to continue consolidating country offices to give clients a single point of entry to the World Bank Group and make it easier for them to work with us. We are also decentralizing to better serve clients: Over the next three years, two-thirds of operations staff will be based in the regions they serve. This will enable them to better respond to local needs, accelerate decision-making, and strengthen collaboration across the World Bank Group.