Aninver Extends Contract with the African Development Bank to Support the CPIA Web Platform

Aninver Development Partners extends its collaboration with the African Development Bank to maintain and enhance the CPIA Web Platform, strengthening transparency and usability across the Bank’s country assessment process. Through this contract extension, we will continue supporting the Sovereign Division (FIRM.1) by ensuring the platform remains reliable, secure, and easy to use for teams working across regions. In parallel, we will implement targeted improvements that refine workflows, improve the user experience, and help streamline how CPIA information is managed and accessed—contributing to a smoother, more consistent country assessment process during the extension period.

Aninver Extends Contract with the African Development Bank to Support the CPIA Web Platform

Aninver Development Partners has extended its collaboration with the Sovereign Division (FIRM.1) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) to deliver targeted improvements and provide short-term maintenance for the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Web Platform over a three-month period (January–April 2026).

This contract extension builds on Aninver’s previous work supporting the rollout of an upgraded digital platform that makes CPIA processes easier to manage, easier to track, and more accessible for internal teams and participating countries.

Why CPIA Matters for the AfDB Group

CPIA is not just a technical scoring exercise. Within the AfDB ecosystem, country performance ratings are closely linked to how concessional finance is allocated—through the African Development Fund’s Performance-Based Allocation (PBA) approach, which is designed to align resources with policy performance and institutional effectiveness. adf.afdb.org+1

This is why the CPIA tool—and the systems behind it—must be reliable, transparent, and well governed. AfDB itself has also explored CPIA’s role as an allocation instrument within the broader “aid selectivity” and performance-based funding agenda.

From Legacy Tools to a Modern Web Platform

As highlighted in the CPIA implementation documentation, the platform upgrade was designed to move away from fragmented, offline workflows and toward a structured digital environment where CPIA processes can be completed, reviewed, and monitored online.

The upgraded solution is built on Drupal and was designed to support both “back-office” CPIA processes and stronger public-facing communication—by consolidating information, improving navigation, and enabling better use of data and visualizations.

What the Contract Extension Covers

During this extension, Aninver will continue supporting AfDB with maintenance and incremental development of the CPIA platform, ensuring the system remains stable while improvements are implemented. The focus is on reinforcing usability and continuity so that CPIA workflows and platform outputs remain dependable for the Bank’s teams and stakeholders.

The broader platform design includes tools that help users follow progress over time and interact with CPIA information more intuitively—such as progress-tracking functionality and data presentation features.

Strengthening Data Use, Transparency, and Decision-Making

A key value of digital CPIA infrastructure is that it helps the institution move from “scores stored in files” to “results used as intelligence.” In practice, that means better tracking, clearer internal coordination, and more credible communication of CPIA-related insights—supporting how the Bank manages knowledge and country engagement.

By continuing to support the platform’s evolution, this contract extension contributes to the operational backbone of a process that helps shape how development resources are prioritized and managed across African countries.

About Aninver Development Partners

Aninver Development Partners provides advisory and digital delivery support to governments and development institutions across sectors including digital solutions, institutional strengthening, and results-based systems. This extension with the African Development Bank reinforces Aninver’s commitment to building practical digital tools that improve governance, transparency, and decision-making at scale.