التنمية 📅 2026-09-14 ✍️ YemenProjects Editorial Team

“Yemen Projects” Launches Its First Report on the World Bank’s New Country Partnership Framework for 2026–2030

<o:p style=""> </o:p>“Yemen Projects” has launched its first analytical report, published in both Arabic and English, under the title <a href="https://yemenprojects.org/en/reports/1787691866557" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-size: 1rem; color: rgb(37, 99, 235); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;">“Yemen 2030: Where Will the New Partnership Lead the Development Path? The World Bank’s First Country Partnership Framework: Priorities, Financing, and Results Indicators.”</a><o:p style=""> </o:p> Financing, and Results
Indicators.” The report examines the details and strategic
priorities of the new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) announced by the
World Bank Group for fiscal years 2026–2030, titled “Improving
Livelihoods and Expanding Job Opportunities Amid a Fragility Crisis.”

This first publication by the platform, which specializes in
monitoring and analyzing development projects, examines the dimensions of the
strategic partnership approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors
on June 4, 2026. The framework comes at a time when Yemen is facing a severe development
crisis, following a 58% decline in per capita GDP over a decade of conflict,
with poverty rates rising to affect three-quarters of the population and
stunting affecting half of all children. Yemen is also classified among the
four countries worldwide experiencing the greatest levels of water scarcity.<o:p></o:p>

The report notes that the strategic shift embodied in the
new framework represents a systematic departure from the traditional
emergency-relief response model, moving instead toward sustainable development
and localization. It highlights the World Bank’s focus on building and
strengthening the capacities of Yemen’s local systems, institutions, and
companies as a first step toward a gradual transition to direct financing for
national institutions, rather than relying entirely on direct implementation
through United Nations agencies.<o:p></o:p>

The report also highlights the Bank’s focus on productive
sectors and economic drivers, particularly agriculture, aquaculture, and
fisheries, with the aim of stimulating economic growth and creating 10,000 jobs
through small and medium-sized enterprises, while simultaneously expanding
access to financial inclusion services for these businesses.<o:p></o:p>

According to the report, the World Bank’s decision to
prioritize electricity and financial services reflects its assessment that both
sectors are prerequisites for unlocking anticipated economic growth and
addressing the acute gaps in these areas.<o:p></o:p>

The report explains that current baseline data indicate that
only around 500,000 people have access to electricity, while financial services
reach just 56,000 individuals and businesses across Yemen. This makes expanding
these two pillars the cornerstone upon which the rest of the productive
activities will be built, with targets of reaching two million people through
the electricity sector and 1.4 million through financial services by 2030.<o:p></o:p>

The launch of the framework was accompanied by the approval
of an immediate package of operations comprising four new projects, with a
total announced value of $285 million. The projects will be financed through
grants from the International Development Association (IDA) and will focus on
the health, water, urban services, and public-sector institutional
modernization sectors.<o:p></o:p>

The report concludes with an analysis that synthesizes the
framework’s quantitative results and indicators and maps them against 13 of the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The objective is to place
Yemen’s 2030 indicators within a globally recognized framework and to track the
extent to which financing translates into tangible improvements in people’s
lives and contributes to strengthening the capacity of national institutions.<o:p></o:p>