## CD Developments and Outlook

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### CD adaptation to the crisis
- Using existing and innovative remote modalities, maintained broad country coverage through the crisis.
- CD delivered to 160 countries
- Over 90 percent of members who have requested financial assistance have received CD
- Over 400 remote engagements
- Practical guidance to members on crisis-related issues; over 50 notes have been produced to date with more in the pipeline.

### Early lessons from intensive remote delivery
- Remote CD has been most successful when:
  - Building on existing engagement and relationships
  - Focused on narrow/technical issues
- Remote delivery is not a full substitute for in-person delivery. Constraints include:
  - Counterparts’ lack of organizational capacity and access to digital infrastructure, particularly in fragile states;
  - Difficulty building relationships and understanding new institutional settings remotely;
  - Training new staff/experts on CD engagement takes more time without field delivery;
  - Other practical and logistical constraints.

### Near-term focus and delivery modality
- CD will remain crisis-focused in the near term
  - Largely remotely delivered—at least through the first half of the fiscal year.
  - Focused on crisis outcomes, emergency topics, and program conditionality.
- In FY21, CD will continue to focus on helping countries with crisis management and stabilization.
  - Program requirements, including on governance issues.
  - Priority given to fragile states.
  - Absorptive capacity.
  - Existence of ongoing medium-term projects—with refocusing where necessary.

### Determinants of country and topical focus
- Country and topical focus will be determined by:
  - RCDCs and bilateral resident advisors can quickly build on existing relationships and projects.
  - Workplans can adjust rapidly to changing country demand.
- RCDCs and long-term experts will be important

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/capacity-developement/d4d/3rd-meeting/cd-development-and-outlook.pdf_