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Business environment reforms for youth employment in ACP countries: lowering barriers to employment and recruitment

ICReports

Youth's Economic Empowerment

This report discusses potential business environment reforms (BER) that present opportunities for advancing youth employment across African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The ACP countries face a significant challenge in this regard, and policymakers play a crucial role in crafting a business environment that actively supports youth employment. The report offers four broad business environment […]

Topics:

Access to Finance Business Regulation and Policy Women's Economic Empowerment Youth's Economic Empowerment

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Empowering Women through Agroforestry Value Chains in Rwanda

ICR Stories

Women's Economic Empowerment

In 2022, we published a blog post recounting a field study conducted in the Bugesera and Rulindo regions of Rwanda. Our ICR intervention aimed to interact with producers and stakeholders from fifteen agroforestry value chains to assess the business environment of these and gain insights to further develop them. Through this intervention, we partnered with […]

Topics:

Green Economy Resilience and Recovery Women's Economic Empowerment Youth's Economic Empowerment

Regions:

Rwanda

Business Environment Reforms and the Care Economy: The Case of Childcare and Parental Leave Policies

ICReports

Business Regulation and Policy

Care economy is an integral part of Business Environment Reforms (BER). It is central to advance Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). In its broad definition, the term care economy encompasses labour and services that support caregiving in all its forms. It includes both unpaid and paid care work, for instance childcare and breastfeeding, care for the […]

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Business Regulation and Policy Women's Economic Empowerment

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Business Environment Reforms for Youth Entrepreneurship in the ACP Region

ICReports

Access to Finance

This report aims to showcase opportunities for promoting youth entrepreneurship in countries in African, the Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) regions by implementing strategic business environment reforms (BER). It delves into the challenges faced by young entrepreneurs in the current ACP contexts and suggests ways for policymakers to improve the conditions for starting and running businesses. […]

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Youth's Economic Empowerment

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Supporting Diaspora Entrepreneurship To Boost ACP Country Development

ICReports

Business Regulation and Policy

This report focuses on how African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries can benefit from the resources of the diaspora to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It is written as part of the series of reports on “Innovative approaches to support entrepreneurs”. The report finds that, in addition to innovative tools such as crowdfunding […]

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Business Regulation and Policy Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Promoting Youth Participation in Public-Private Dialogue

ICReports

Youth's Economic Empowerment

This report focusses on how Public-Private Dialogue (PPD) can be inclusive of youth and the benefits that can come from this approach. For policymakers and governments this includes more relevant, informed and effective policy design, better decision making, improved planning, management and implementation of new policies, improved trust with key stakeholders and the ability to […]

Topics:

Youth's Economic Empowerment

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Annual report 2022-2023

Annual Report

Business Regulation and Policy

Read about our activities from September 2022 to August 2023

Topics:

Access to Finance Business Regulation and Policy Green Economy Investment Policy Resilience and Recovery Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups Social Economy Women's Economic Empowerment Youth's Economic Empowerment

Language:

English

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Building a better business ecosystem for entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire

ICR Stories

Public Private Dialogue

Côte d’Ivoire has been an African success story for much of the last decade. The World Bank estimates that its GDP growth rate was on average 8.2% in the seven years between 2012 and 2019, one of the most dynamic in the world. Much of its growth comes from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which […]

Topics:

Public Private Dialogue Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups

Language:

English

Regions:

Africa Côte d'Ivoire

Business Environment Reforms for Youth Entrepreneurship in the ACP Region

ICReports

Access to Finance

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Youth's Economic Empowerment

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Trends in Gender Finance in DFIs in Caribbean and Pacific Region

Past Events

Access to Finance

Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) have a key role to play in promoting gender responsive finance and women’s economic empowerment (WEE). While the initiatives of multilateral banks are well-documented and communicated via events and publications, visibility of the efforts of national and sub-regional DFIs on this topic is low. Gender finance is not commonly highlighted on their websites […]

Topics:

Access to Finance Development Finance Institutions Investment Policy Women's Economic Empowerment

Language:

English

Regions:

Carribean Pacific

Annual Report 2021-2022

Annual Report

Business Regulation and Policy

This Progress Report reflects the progress on the activities of the ICR Facility achieved until August 2022, with a particular focus on the period 1 September 2021–31 August 2022. The ICR Facility is implemented through three Output Areas. In Output Area 1 Implementation of demand-based interventions was in full swing throughout the year. High numbers […]

Topics:

Business Regulation and Policy Green Economy Investment Policy Public Private Dialogue Resilience and Recovery Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-Ups Social Economy Women's Economic Empowerment Youth's Economic Empowerment

Language:

English

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Business Environment Reforms to Support Women-Owned Businesses in ACP Countries

ICReports

Women's Economic Empowerment

Legal, Administrative And Policy Reforms To Access Finance And Manage Businesses Executive Summary: Business creation and business revenue growth is a crucial engine of economic growth and job creation. Investing in women is not only a moral imperative; it is good business. Taking action now to advance gender equality can add $13 trillion to global Gross Domestic Product […]

Topics:

Business Regulation and Policy Women's Economic Empowerment

Regions:

Africa

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Business environment reforms for youth employment in ACP countries: lowering barriers to employment and recruitment

Empowering Women through Agroforestry Value Chains in Rwanda

Business Environment Reforms and the Care Economy: The Case of Childcare and Parental Leave Policies

Business Environment Reforms for Youth Entrepreneurship in the ACP Region

Supporting Diaspora Entrepreneurship To Boost ACP Country Development

Promoting Youth Participation in Public-Private Dialogue

Annual report 2022-2023

Building a better business ecosystem for entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire

Business Environment Reforms for Youth Entrepreneurship in the ACP Region

Trends in Gender Finance in DFIs in Caribbean and Pacific Region

Annual Report 2021-2022

Business Environment Reforms to Support Women-Owned Businesses in ACP Countries

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