Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF)

Eliminating poverty, reducing inequity, and improving opportunity for people in low- and middle-income countries are the World Bank Group's central objectives. The Comprehensive Development Framework is an approach by which countries can achieve these objectives. It emphasizes the interdependence of all elements of development—social, structural, human, governance, environmental, economic, and financial. The CDF advocates:         

	A holistic long-term strategy
	The country in the lead, both "owning" and directing the development agenda, with the Bank and other partners each defining their support in their respective business plans
	Stronger partnerships among governments, donors, civil society, the private sector, and other development stakeholders in implementing the country strategy
	A transparent focus on development outcomes to ensure better practical success in reducing poverty.

The CDF is the foundation for the new partnership betweeen developed and developing countries to achieve improvements in sustainable growth and poverty reduction that will help countries achieve the MDGs, (see The Monterrey Consensus, 2002, PDF). The CDF approach, operationalized through PRSPs in low-income countries, provides the common foundation for implementing this new partnership at the country level. To learn more about the CDF, visit the CDF web site. 

Niger and the CDF

The Niger Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP, PDF, 581 KB) incorporates many elements of the CDF principles.  The government followed a consultative and participatory process leading to its adoption.  The strong ownership that characterized the PRSP preparation has made it a genuinely country-driven process.  The strategy is comprehensiveness, integrating sectoral strategies as well as focusing on macroeconomic stability, access to basic social services and infrastructure, good governance, private-sector-led economic growth, and capacity building as central priorities for poverty reduction. In addition, it includes medium-term and long-term targets for the year 2015. 

For more information, please refer to the Niger PRSP.