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Business Environment

In Year 4, our work in this area will be programmed to closely support the specific regulatory reform, legal framework and policy advocacy needs of the Priority Sectors, as well as promote broad-based, “bottom-up” approaches to regulatory reform to complement the “top-down” efforts of the new consultation process being piloted in two Ministries.

Support to Priority Sectors

Other Business Environment Support

BPO/KPO

·         Undertake a regulatory impediments analysis of the BPO sector

·         Support efforts to enhance the policy advocacy capabilities of int@j

·         Support work with telecom and ICT providers to improve pricing and service packages

·         Prepare bylaws and instructions to implement “Bankruptcy & Insolvency Law”

·         Build  RIA and consultation process and Units (Regulations, instructions, Manuals)

·         Provide technical support to  RIA/ Consultation projects

·         Prepare new Legislative Standards and practices to draft local legislations

·         Build electronic registry and consultation portal

·         Implement advocacy program and facilitate development of research position papers at selected business associations

·         Launch a pilot project with business associations for “bottom-up” regulatory reform by preparing regulatory quality/doing business indicators

·         Launch a pilot “Doing Business” project at the municipal level with a target municipality

·         Work with Ministry of Planning to define support for improvement of national Doing Business indicators

·         Assist MOL in combining employment efforts done by different entities under a specialized employment body

·         Develop JE Strategy Map and BSC, training staff, and helping in implementation

CROs

·         Support development of oversight capacity for the Calibration requirements at the national level

·         Support creation of independent Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in order to comply with GCP/ICH guidelines

·         Enhance legal environment and business approval process

Medical Services

·         Build the capacity of MOH for a strengthened hospital auditing and licensing system

·         Develop new public policies that will govern a national medical liability insurance framework

·         Support efforts to build advocacy capabilities of PHA, JNC and other bodies

 

A&E Services

·         Establish Guidelines related the adoption and implementation of Green building codes including rating systems for level II and related incentive scheme

·         Support establishment of a codes enforcement office at NBC

Clean Tech

·         Develop the capacity of ELD staff  and industry in identifying the BAT for pollution prevention

Overall Impacts/Outcomes

·         Reduced regulatory cost and risk to start up and operate a business

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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