The current FY23-FY27 World Bank Group Country Partnership Framework (CPF) aims to address the dual challenges of the current crisis stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as longstanding and longer-term reform challenges, with a phased approach of activities to support the government’s development agenda and the goal to advance toward European Union accession. The CPF provides a flexible approach in identifying activities—both lending and analytical—under the overarching objective of supporting green, resilient, and inclusive development and competitiveness in Moldova. The framework is based on three high-level objectives: (i) increased formal employment; (ii) improved human capital; and (iii) increased green and resilient investments.

The objectives of the CPF focus on key areas including enterprise competitiveness, decreased regulatory burden, key aspects of health and education services, increased energy security and efficiency, and green investments, particularly in infrastructure and agriculture. A critical feature of the CPF is capacity-building and digitization efforts to strengthen systems and institutions across a broad swath of government and private sector actors at national and local levels.

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