Following eight months of face-to-face and online consultations with more than 2,000 stakeholders in 36 countries--31 of them in Africa--the World Bank in March 2011 released its new strategy for the Region: Africa's Future and the World Bank's Support to It. To read more about the strategy, please visit the strategy web page. For more information about the consultations process, please see the Consultations Schedule and Documents and the News section below.