81301658-Enhancing the evidence base for gender-transformative Business Environment Reforms in selected OACPS member states

The Investment Climate Reform (ICR) Facility through one of its implementing agencies - the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) - seeks to improve the evidence around the impact of gender-responsive and gender-transformative Business Environment Reforms and their impact for women and the economy as a whole in countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) region. This is in order to engage with policy-makers and other stakeholders on the importance of reforms, to reduce explicit or implicit prejudice against such reforms, and to lay the ground work to scale up successful strategies and approaches of business environment reforms for WEE. Therefore, this assignment intends to enhance evidence around the economic and wider impacts of reforming the business environment in a gender-transformative way. This shall take place through conducting three studies, each investigating/evaluating the impacts of one reform in a particular country (work package 1), setting up Peer to Peer exchanges to allow cross-country learning (work package 2) as well as setting up a webinar for a wider audience (work package 3). The objective is to generate evidence (through work package 1) for the reasons set out above, as well as to enhance the capacity of partners to learn from this evidence (work packages 2 and 3).