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BizCLIR Technical Assistance

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In recent years, a crucial indicator for the state of a country’s business climate has been the World Bank’s Doing Business report. USAID has developed the BizCLIR Technical Assistance program to take Doing Business to the next level—diagnosing the impediments to growth and providing solutions for reform.

 

The BizCLIR Approach

Technical assistance under BizCLIR seeks to generate tangible and sustainable improvements in the business environment of a given country using a wide array of practical reform initiatives, such as the drafting of new laws, design of new entities (such as credit bureaus), reengineering of processes, or reorganizing government agencies. USAID’s extensive knowledge and expertise ensures that technical assistance initiatives:
 

  • Incorporate global best practices while appreciating the local context by customizing assistance to circumstances and capabilities of the country
  • Take a comprehensive and holistic approach to a given country’s needs – examining legal and policy issues, strengthening the institutional environment and local capacity, building public-private partnerships, and utilizing and integrating information technology
  • Ensure local ownership and transfer of knowledge so that solutions are institutionalized and sustainable.


From a practical perspective, USAID missions and other agencies can simply buy into an existing USAID contract vehicle, the CLIR IQC (Commercial Legal and Institutional Reform Indefinite Quantity Contract) meaning reduced project management start-up costs enabling immediate project kick-off and execution. It also allows, cost-sharing arrangements to be explored between USAID/Washington and field missions to optimize financial resources.