Guiding World Bank operations in Algeria The Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) is the World Bank’s work plan that guides its operations in a country, usually for a period of three years. I t describes the country's economic and social performance, its main development challenges, and a summary of the government's development strategy. Based on consultations with civil society and with the Government, Algeria has three key development challenges: (a) how to use its oil and gas reserves for the long-run benefit; (b) how to create growth and employment in the non-oil economy to both benefit from the surge in the size of the labor force over the next decade, and avoid social tensions caused by increased unemployment; and, (c) how to provide better public services. Bank Group priorities for strategic support mirror these challenges and are: Support to fiscal sustainability and hydrocarbon revenue management, to build the basis for a sustained growth; Support towards removing the constraints to private sector-led growth, particularly those affecting the business environment, SMEs, the financial sector, and infrastructure development; Support the Government's efforts to articulate, and implement a strategy for better service delivery, particularly for water supply, housing, environmental services (municipal waste management), and human development.
IFC will complement the Bank's support through financial sector development, SME support, promoting private investments in infrastructure and supporting the Government's privatization efforts.
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What is a Country assistance strategy ?
The World Bank prepares a Country assistance strategy (CAS) for active borrowers from the International Development Association (IDA) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The CAS takes as its starting point the country’s own vision for its development, as defined in a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper or other country-owned process. Oriented toward results, the CAS is developed in consultation with country authorities, civil society organizations, development partners, and other stakeholders. The purpose of the CAS is to set out a selective program of Bank Group support linked to the country’s development strategy and based on the Bank Group’s comparative advantage in the context of other donor activities. CASs are designed to promote collaboration and coordination among development partners in a country. The CAS includes a comprehensive diagnosis—drawing on analytic work by the Bank, the government, and/or other partners—of the development challenges facing the country, including the incidence, trends, and causes of poverty. The CAS identifies the key areas where the Bank Group's assistance can have the biggest impact on poverty reduction. In its diagnosis, the CAS takes into account the performance of the Bank’s portfolio in the country, the country’s creditworthiness, state of institutional development, implementation capacity, governance, and other sectoral and cross-cutting issues. From this assessment, the level and composition of Bank Group financial, advisory, and/or technical support to the country is determined. To track implementation of the CAS program, the CAS is increasingly results-focused. It includes a framework of clear targets and indicators to monitor Bank Group and country performance in achieving stated outcomes. | 
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