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The World Bank in Benin

The World Bank supports Benin’s poverty reduction strategy to increase growth, improve basic services access, governance and institutional capacity building.

Improving infrastructures

Stormwater drainage works

The works have reshaped the face of the beneficiary neighborhoods, benefiting more than 168,000 inhabitants of Cotonou.
Policy-Based guarantees

Financing solutions

World Bank Policy-Based Guarantees cover commercial lenders against the risk of debt service default by sovereign governments.
Blog

What works for women at work

Through land planning and the formal demarcation of community lands, the country is strengthening women’s rights to property.

Benin At-A-Glance

Bordered by Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Nigeria, Benin has a 121-kilometer-long coastline on the Gulf of Guinea, a population of close to 11.53 million (2018), and an average life expectancy of 61.2 years. Benin’s economy is heavily reliant on the informal re-export and transit trade with Nigeria (estimated at approximately 20% of GDP), and on agriculture, especially cotton, which is the country’s...

Overview

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Project

Community Driven Development Improves Basic Services

Community-led projects rehabilitated schools for 81,000 students and improved access to water and sanitation services for 10,000 people.

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Research

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Experts

Marie-Chantal Uwanyiligira

Division Director for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Guinea, and Togo

Nestor Coffi

Country Manager

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In Depth

Jul 17, 2024

CPIA Africa

The 2024 Africa Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) report covers the period January to December 2023. In 2023, the average CPIA score for IDA-eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa remained broadly like ...
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Africa’s Pulse

Short term economic prospects for the continent, its current development challenges.
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IDA Impact in Africa

With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
World Bank Africa Multimedia

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Doing Business in Benin

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Country Office Contacts

Main Office Contact

Banque Mondiale
B.P. 03-2112
Cotonou, Bénin

+229-21-30-5857

For general information and inquiries

Yao Gnona Afangbedji
External Affairs Officer