| PSD Strategy Guide for Asia |
Jacobs, Cordova & Associates assisted the Asian Development Bank in writing a PSD Strategy Guide that helps Asian governments diagnose market problems, involve stakeholders, coordinate among government bodies, and increase accountability. This guide draws from a wide range of reform experiences in different Asian countries, and from good international practices as identified by ADB, other multilateral development banks, the OECD, and the WTO. The workshop introducing the guide can be found:
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2005/Achieving-Results-PSD/default.asp
Multi-Country Asia, ADB, 2006.
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| OECD Regulatory Oversight Bodies |
Jacobs, Cordova & Associates prepared an analytical paper on how OECD countries have approached the challenges of ensuring the quality of regulation through institutional and organizational settings. The overall aim was to identify different approaches across OECD countries and examine critical success factors including the different role and functions of Regulatory Oversight Bodies (RQBs); their budgetary allocations; staffing; communication strategies; and the interplay with the political administration. In particular, the study provided comparative analysis of the role of RQBs and how they operate within the executive branch of government and other State institutions, including with other levels of government. It also identified the trends, common issues, and typical problems and challenges encountered by Member countries. It also aimed to assess success factors and design features that should be considered when establishing or revising approaches to oversight, to ensure the sustainability of regulatory quality.
World Wide, OECD, 2010
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| Global Review of Business Registry Reforms |
Jacobs, Cordova & Associates prepared a series of case studies from around the world on the management of stakeholders in the reform of business registries. Using case studies from 10 countries, this report examines how diverse interests (classified into groups called “stakeholders”) participated in reforms aimed at reducing the costs, delays, and corruption associated with the business registration functions of government. The analysis identifies how reformers can purposefully “manage” stakeholders to expand and sustain the capacity for change within the political economy. The report was published by the World Bank in 2009. Download Report Here:
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/fias.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/PublicationORP_StakeholderManagement/$FILE/StakeholderManagement_.pdf
Worldwide, World Bank/FIAS, 2007.
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| Alternatives to Public Sector Inspections: Public-Private Partnerships And CSR |
The aim of this report prepared for FIAS was to explore how governments in developing countries can draw on examples of public-private inspection partnerships to develop effective and credible alternative inspection approaches for ensuring compliance with voluntary and mandatory standards, using experience gained from public-private sector corporate social responsibility (CSR) experiences, and from innovative public-private inspection innovations outside the CSR context. Download Report here:
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/economics.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/CSR-Alternatives+to+Public+Sector+Insepctions+June+30/$FILE/Alternatives+to+
Public+Sector+Insepctions+June+30.pdf
Multi-Country, World Bank/IFC, 2005.
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| Lessons for Reformers: How to Launch, Implement and Sustain Regulatory Reform |
Working with the World Bank/IFC-FIAS, Jacobs, Cordova & Associates prepared a major report and several case studies on implementation of broad regulatory reforms. We assessed the processes through which broad regulatory reforms actually occurred in the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Hungary, and South Korea. Our work examined the question: “What strategy for broad-scale regulatory reform maximizes the chances of genuine and durable success in environments resistant to reform?” We found that, regardless of the specific content of the reform, success is influenced by an evolving mix of “drivers of change” that governments can use strategically. Published by FIAS, in 2009, as: Lessons for Reformers: How to Launch, Implement and Sustain Regulatory Reform: An Analysis of Six Case Studies in Developing and High Income Countries. Download report here:
http://regulatoryreform.com/pdfs/Drivers%20of% 20Change%20Scott%20 Jacobs%20Revised%20Jan%202007.pdf.
Download Case Studies Here:
http://www.fias.net/ifcext/fias.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/FIAS_Casestudies_MexicocaseDec08/$FILE/mexicocase.pdf
http://www.fias.net/ifcext/fias.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/FIAS_Casestudies_UKItalAuscaseDec08/$FILE/UK-Ital-Auscase.pdf
http://www.fias.net/ifcext/fias.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/FIAS_Casestudies_HungarycaseDec08/$FILE/hungarycase.pdf
http://www.fias.net/ifcext/fias.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/FIAS_Casestudies_KoreacaseDec08/$FILE/koreacase.pdf
Worldwide, The World Bank, 2005.
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| Good Practices for Business Inspections: Guidelines for Reformers |
Good Practices for Business Inspections: Guidelines for Reformers, prepared by Scott Jacobs and Cesar Cordova, was published by the World Bank Group in its influential series of toolkits for better business environments. In this State of the art report Jacobs, Cordova &Associates examined key practices of effective inspections for the protection of human health and safety and the environment. The report presents a checklist of good practices for such inspections. Finally, it analyses the best practices for inspection training, accountability, and administrative procedures using the experience of Mexico and the U.S Download Report Here
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sme.nsf/Content/BEE+Toolkits
Multi-Country, World Bank/IFC, 2006.
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| Alternatives to Public Sector Inspections: Public-Private Partnerships And CSR |
The aim of this report prepared for FIAS was to explore how governments in developing countries can draw on examples of public-private inspection partnerships to develop effective and credible alternative inspection approaches for ensuring compliance with voluntary and mandatory standards, using experience gained from public-private sector corporate social responsibility (CSR) experiences, and from innovative public-private inspection innovations outside the CSR context. Download Report here:
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/economics.nsf/AttachmentsByTitle/CSR-Alternatives+to+Public+Sector+Insepctions+June+30/$FILE/Alternatives+to+
Public+Sector+Insepctions+June+30.pdf
Multi-Country, World Bank/IFC, 2005.
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| Assessment of the Program of The Foreign Investment Advisory Service to Reduce Administrative Barriers to Investment, 1995-2004 |
Jacobs, Cordova & Associates was selected to carry out the external assessment of the first ten years of the program of the Foreign Investment Advisory Service to Reduce Administrative Barriers to Investment. It was contracted as “an independent review of FIAS work on administrative barriers to identify the impact of the work in improving investment environments, what seems to work best, and how this work should evolve in the future, with a particular focus on improving sound implementation of sustainable reforms.” Our assessment studied several key questions: “How effective has FIAS been in getting results? How can the FIAS approach be improved, in light of past experience and changing opportunities and constraints?” We made a number of recommendations to improve the value for money of the FIAS program.
World Wide, The World Bank/FIAS, 2004.
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| Evaluation of the Regulatory Guillotine™ |
One of the Jacobs, Cordova & Associates most widely known innovations is a reform tool called the Regulatory Guillotine™. The guillotine is a reform strategy used by countries joining the OECD in the 1990s, and since then extensively refined and developed by Jacobs, Cordova & Associates as an orderly and transparent process to speed up regulatory simplification in countries undergoing rapid economic transition. In 2006, Jacobs, Cordova & Associates evaluated the guillotine processes and results in 6 countries in a paper, “Effective and Sustainable Regulatory Reform: The Regulatory Guillotine in Three Transition and Developing Countries.” We are continuing to evaluate regulatory guillotine reforms around the world. Download paper here:
www.regulatory reform.com/documents/Evaluation-of-regulatory-guillotine-Jacobs-Jan-2006.doc
Worldwide, 2006
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| Current Trends in Regulatory Impact Analysis |
Jacobs, Cordova & Associates continually monitors the use of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) around the world. In our 2006 report, Current Trends in Regulatory Impact Analysis: The Challenges of Mainstreaming RIA into Policy-making, Jacobs, Cordova & Associates examines global trends in RIA. We find that RIA is being mainstreamed into policy processes, but that new issues and tensions are emerging as result. Our conclusion is that, to reach a sustainable level of RIA quality, governments need a clear strategy aimed at the institutionalization of capacities and incentives within the machinery of government. Such a strategy rests on a series of good RIA practices: clearer targeting strategies, development of multi-level consultation strategies, more attention to data collection and data quality issues, more investment in training, effective quality control through central RIA units and ministerial accountability, better use of scarce scientific resources, and better technical RIA manuals. Download report here: www.regulatoryreform.com/pdfs/Current%20Trends%20and%20Processes%20in% 20RIA%20-%20May%202006%20Jacobs%20and% 20Associates.pdf
Worldwide 2006
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