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Annual Report 2024-2025

Annual Report

Access to Finance

The Investment Climate Reform (ICR) Facility works with public and private organisations in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to improve their investment climate so that the private sector can thrive, create decent jobs and contribute to sustainable economic transformation. This report reflects the activities of the ICR Facility from December 2019 through August 2025, […]

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

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Annual Report 2023-2024

Annual Report

Business Regulation and Policy

Read about our activities from September 2023 to August 2024

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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

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English

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 […]

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

Regions:

Rwanda

Annual report 2022-2023

Annual Report

Business Regulation and Policy

Read about our activities from September 2022 to August 2023

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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

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 […]

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English

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Reforming Business Environments Amid Conflict and Fragility

ICReports

Resilience and Recovery

Often, it is the countries that need private investment and economic growth the most that are also the most difficult to invest and do business in. Not only do businesses in these countries struggle to access markets and obtain the inputs they need to compete, but their governments are also challenged in their efforts to […]

Topics:

Resilience and Recovery

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Annual report 2020-2021

Annual Report

Business Regulation and Policy

Read about our activities from September 2020 to August 2021

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Language:

English

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Assessing Economic Impacts of Covid-19 through Input-Output Modelling Tools

Past Events

Resilience and Recovery

Economic models adapted to national circumstances are an important tool for the assessment of expected impacts and policy options to mitigate these impacts. They need to be readily applicable and map the effects transparently. The webinar presents an approach how national Input-Output tables can be used for the realistic modelling of impacts on production and […]

Topics:

Resilience and Recovery

Regions:

Africa Carribean Pacific

Empowering Women in Trade: Lessons from the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and Tanzania

ICR Story

Access to Finance

Coordinated institutional support services, tailored skills development, better data and finance with a gender lens can generate stable women exporters Across Africa and the Caribbean, women entrepreneurs are the backbone of many local economies—but too often they are held back by complex regulations, high costs, and fragmented support. Three recent Investment Climate Reform (ICR) Facility […]

Inclusive investment climate reform: ICR Facility’s work on tackling Gender-Based Violence in investment climate

ICR Story

Business Regulation and Policy

For weeks, Rose, a trader, avoided crossing the border to the neighboring country to purchase business supplies after experiencing sexual harassment. The incident disrupted her business, caused her to lose regular clients, and reduced her family’s income. For several women in business, concerns about safety extend beyond the market premises or gate. Globally, 1 in […]

Reforming Business Environments amid Fragility and Conflict

ICR Story

Resilience and Recovery

Often, the countries that need private investment and economic growth the most are also the most difficult to invest and do business in. Not only do businesses in these countries struggle to access markets and obtain inputs, but their governments are also challenged to manage the business environment and economy. As a result, unemployment and […]

Ghana is Set on a Path for Green Jobs

ICR Story

Green Economy

Ghana wants better and more sustainable jobs across the country and is ready to invest more than USD 13 million to that end. But the to-do list is long. If the strategy succeeds, thousands could be lifted from precarious employment.

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Annual Report 2024-2025

Annual Report 2023-2024

Empowering Women through Agroforestry Value Chains in Rwanda

Annual report 2022-2023

Annual Report 2021-2022

Reforming Business Environments Amid Conflict and Fragility

Annual report 2020-2021

Assessing Economic Impacts of Covid-19 through Input-Output Modelling Tools

Empowering Women in Trade: Lessons from the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and Tanzania

Inclusive investment climate reform: ICR Facility’s work on tackling Gender-Based Violence in investment climate

Reforming Business Environments amid Fragility and Conflict

Ghana is Set on a Path for Green Jobs

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