Based on consultations at all levels of society, and with development partners, the World Bank Group's Country Partnership Strategy for Belarus for 2014-2017 commits to helping reforms in key areas needed for the country to regain competitiveness, maintain macroeconomic stability and sustain growth.
The strategy has been developed through extensive consultations with key stakeholders including the government authorities, business associations, civil society, development partners, and beneficiaries. As proposed by civil society partners, instruments will be developed to engage beneficiaries and civil society in monitoring the provision of services in projects supported by the World Bank Group in Belarus.
Among those challenges is the fostering of economic competitiveness through reduction of the large role of the state, which the country's entrepreneurs say will stimulate markets.