Guatemala Country Partnership Strategy

Based on consultations with representatives from the private sector and civil society and in a coordinated effort with the government, the World Bank prepared the Country Partnership Strategy (2009-2012).

 

This Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) focuses on supporting priority areas such as maintaining macroeconomic stability, expanding fiscal space for priority spending, improving governance and transparency, and promoting sustainable growth, productivity and rural development.

 

This builds on prior advances and aims to provide Guatemala with demand-driven and focused assistance for key development goals. The program includes lending and flexible analytical and capacity building assistance to support the country in select areas that reflect the Bank’s comparative advantage.

 

Bank assistance focuses on three development priorities:

- Enhancing Fundamentals (maintaining macroeconomic stability, expanding fiscal space for priority spending, and improving governance and transparency).

- Promoting Sustainable Growth and Productivity (improving the investment climate, rural development and productivity, sustainable energy, and disaster risk management)

- Expanding Opportunities (enhancing opportunities for vulnerable groups through improving access to, and use of, social programs).

A CPS progress report, prepared in 2010, takes stock of the implementation progress made under the current Strategy.

More general information about  Country Assistance Strategies

The evaluation report reviews the Bank's assistance strategy for Guatemala from 1985 to 2001 and looks at whether the assistance dealt with the major issues affecting the economy, and how it contributed to the accomplishments of the country. The report also assesses the relevance, efficacy, and efficiency of that assistance, and recommends actions for the future. The outcome of the Bank's program in the 1990s was satisfactory, although its outcome for the 1980s was unsatisfactory. This difference lies in that in the early 1990s, the Bank supported programs that brought economic stability, and growth, better management, and governance of the public sector.

Guatemala Country Assistance Evaluation (2002) (2.3MB PDF)