Facility for investment climate advisory services (FIAS) 2016 annual review (الانكليزية)

FIAS, the Facility for Investment Climate Advisory Services is now in its fourth decade supporting advisory, technical support, and knowledge-based projects tailored to help improve struggling and vulnerable economies and help make emerging economies ... انظر المزيد + FIAS, the Facility for Investment Climate Advisory Services is now in its fourth decade supporting advisory, technical support, and knowledge-based projects tailored to help improve struggling and vulnerable economies and help make emerging economies even stronger. In FY16, FIAS support helped bring about 76 investment climate reforms in 42 client countries, bringing the total of reforms achieved for the five years cycle to 341 in 83 countries, well above the target of 250. One of the themes that comes across in this year’s report is the priority to help client countries achieve rapid results. These Quick Win reforms have been a hallmark of the Indicator-Based Reform (IBR) work featured in the special section chapter of this year’s Annual Review. And it is a theme that recurs across the FIAS-supported teams working in our priority areas of IDA countries, the Sub-Saharan Africa region, and fragile or conflict-affected situations (FCS). The report also highlights FIAS supported rapid response in Nepal following the major earthquake, and Jordan, which is struggling with a major influx of refugees from the conflict in Syria. The strategy for the new five-year cycle FY17–21 was developed and approved during FY16. It focuses on three strategic pillars: (i)improving business environments in client countries; (ii) expanding market opportunities; and (iii) strengthening firm competitiveness. The thematic areas of gender and inclusion, transparency and political economy, green competitiveness, and a focus on high-growth businesses will cut across the entire FIAS portfolio.  رؤية أقل ـ