Sri Lanka Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2026-2030
The World Bank Group’s new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Sri Lanka sets out a clear roadmap to support Sri Lanka’s continued recovery and its ambition of achieving 7% growth. Anchored in the country’s development priorities, the CPF focuses on creating jobs through private sector-led growth, promoting reforms that improve the business climate, facilitate trade, and enhance competitiveness. It channels investment into sectors with strong potential to create jobs and attract private capital at scale, including ports and logistics, clean energy, export-oriented agriculture, and high-value tourism. The CPF deploys the full World Bank Group toolkit — financing, guarantees, and advisory services — to unlock private investment and expand opportunity. Targeted support will be provided to women and youth and to lagging regions, especially the Northern and Eastern provinces. The CPF also strengthens Sri Lanka’s resilience to future shocks that could reverse development gains and derail the path to sustainable growth.
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Strategic Overview
The World Bank Group’s CPF outlines a new partnership with Sri Lanka that supports the government’s priorities for continued economic recovery and achieving 7% growth. It focuses on sectors with strong job creation and investment potential, including ports and logistics, clean energy, export-oriented agriculture, and tourism.
Results Framework: Intervention Logic and Short-Term Business Planning
This framework identifies the expected results and strategic initiatives supporting Sri Lanka’s development across the four CPF outcomes. It highlights the importance of complementary World Bank Group resources, programmatic engagement, and targeted knowledge work to strengthen impact and implementation.
Financing and Implementation Arrangements
This document provides an overview of financing and implementation arrangements, key partners, and potential risks associated with the Sri Lanka CPF.
World Bank Group Portfolio Snapshot (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA)
Sri Lanka’s development is supported through a diverse portfolio of World Bank Group projects focusing on energy, agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, financial sector and more.
Selected Economic Indicators
These indicators provide a country macro snapshot and the World Bank staff’s baseline projections for key macro-fiscal external variables. It sets the macroeconomic context and assumptions for the CPF and provides context to the operating environment.
Streamlined Country Diagnostic (SCD)
The SCD assesses the binding constraints to growth, inclusion and sustainability, identifies emerging challenges and proposes development priorities to address these constraints.
Completion and Learning Review (CLR)
This Completion and Learning Review takes stock of implementation of the FY24-27 World Bank Group CPF for Sri Lanka.
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