Assessing Investor Roadmap Applications Worldwide
Analyzing the effectiveness of the Investor Roadmap, a model used to identify the barriers to investment activity.
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Assessing the Impact of Innovation Grants in Financial Services
This project seeks to learn more about the impact of different innovations in financial services on poverty and assess their potential for sustainability and scalability.
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Building the Microfinance Regulation Resource Center
Helping the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) build a resource center on microfinance regulation and supervision, including laws, regulations, and policies affecting microfinance.
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Commercial Legal & Institutional Reform (SEGIR/CLIR IQC)
An indefinite quantity contract to support the development of sound market institutions in developing and transitional countries.
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Developing an Administrative Law Guide for USAID Democracy & Governance Officers
IRIS developed a guide that outlines how to integrate administrative law and procedure into a wide range of programming, to enhance transparency, predictability, accountability, and public participation in government decisionmaking.
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Developing Robust Governance Indicators
An integrated set of 30 objective indicators was developed to serve as an overall index for quality of governance, including such indicators as bribe paying, number of steps to start a business, arrests and murders of journalists, and homicide rates.
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Facilitating Access to Financial Services for the Poor
A USAID IQC to design, implement, evaluate, and coordinate the delivery of creative financial services for the world's poor.
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Forum Series on the Role of Institutions
The Forum Series of presentations and discussions was designed to help USAID apply the insights of New Institutional Economics and social capital research, as a key approach to promoting sustainable economic growth with social equity.
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How Do Microenterprises Contribute to Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction?
A research project to assess the contribution of microenterprises to economic growth and poverty reduction, and explore approaches to integrating microenterprise support activities into assistance programming.
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Improving the Policy Environment for Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries
IRIS developed a Toolkit to assist governments and donors identify policy priorities for establishing an environment supportive of e-commerce for development.
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Improving the Policy Environment for Micro & Small Enterprises
This IRIS-led consortium assists USAID missions (via the AMAP/EE IQC) in improving the policy environment for small businesses in developing and transitional countries.
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Making the Case for Micro Enterprises
This project investigates if and how micro enterprises contribute to poverty alleviation and economic growth.
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Measuring the Impact of Millenium Challenge Account Programs
IRIS will provide evaluation services for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the organization that administers the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) — a new approach to economic growth and poverty eradication that links U.S. assistance to greater responsibility from recipient nations. Specific tasks will most likely include assessing program priorities and potential impact, evaluating economic growth impacts, and training MCC staff and country counterparts.
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Microfinance Legislation & Regulation: Assisting USAID Missions in Assessing and Reforming the Environment
Developing a conceptual framework to assess the legal and regulatory environments impacting microfinance. USAID staff, policymakers, and practitioners can use this framework to evaluate the legal and regulatory environment, and to design appropriate reforms.
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Poverty Assessment Tools for Microenterprise Practitioners
Developing low-cost tools to assess the poverty levels of client households in USAID-sponsored microenterprise programs.
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Providing Intellectual Support
for USAID’s Policy Agenda
Helping USAID’s Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (PPC) to strengthen its role as center of ideas and as a global leader in addressing development policy issues.
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Supporting Microenterprise Development in Fragile States
The IRIS Center, working in partnership CARE, Save the Children and World Vision, will create a model framework for implementing microenterprise development under conditions of fragility using both existing fragile states concepts and best practices implemented by microfinance institutions.
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Taking Stock of Diagnostic & Design Tools
A research project to provide guidance to USAID Missions in selecting and applying the various tools available for assessing a country’s institutional support for enterprise (its “enabling environment”).
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Testing Poverty Assessment Tools in Peru
A field test of approaches to measuring household poverty, designed to assess the accuracy of sets of poverty indicators.
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World Bank Website for Governance Indicators
The World Bank commissioned IRIS to design internal and external websites, building on the IRIS study, "Developing Robust Governance Indicators: Corruption, Capacity, and Transparency, and Crime as a Cost of Doing Business."
to provide access to the World Bank guide, "Objective Proxies for Governance," as well as downloadable data on governance indicators.
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