Country Strategy Paper outlines the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) strategy for Suriname over the period 2014-18.  The Strategy is the first Bank strategy for Suriname and comes within one year of the country becoming a Borrowing Member.

The Strategy is mapped onto the planning pillars as identified in the country’s National Development Plan.  This provides an excellent development framework within which to anchor strategic support and sustained policy dialogue for meaningful engagement between CDB and the Government of Suriname (GOS).  As such, the thematic outcomes of the Country Strategy are promoting: (i) economic sustainability; (ii) social sustainability; (iii) environmental sustainability; and (iv) good governance in Suriname.  In order to pursue enhanced gender-based reporting in the Strategy, CDB and GOS commit to including gender analysis and sex-disaggregated data in planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation at the project and sector levels.