Afghanistan — Developing Economic Governance
Assisting the Transitional Afghan Authority to implement macroeconomic and structural reforms.
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Armenia Commercial Law and Economic Regulation
Reforming Armenia’s legal, regulatory, and administrative entities, and helping to formulate commercial law, trade policies, and economic regulation.
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Bosnia & Herzegovina:
Fairness and Transparency
in Administrative Processes
By increasing the capacity, responsiveness, and effectivenesss of the administrative justice system, IRIS is working to improve transparency, accountability, and access to justice for the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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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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Creating the Legal Environment for a Secured Finance System in Russia
Working with the Ministry of Finance to create a modern secured finance system involving movable property, including legislation, training, and public awareness.
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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 the Justice Sector in Bosnia & Herzegovina
IRIS is assisting the new Ministry of Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina to carry out its mandates, and also providing technical support to strengthen the legislative process, including promoting public participation.
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Evaluating Anti-Corruption Initiatives in Georgia
By examining a broad range of anti-corruption programming, IRIS traced the evolution in donor thinking about the causes and appropriate remedies of corruption.
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Graduate Economics Program at The New School of Economics
IRIS is building capacity in Russia for sound economic analysis in the public and private sectors by providing a resident adviser to the New School of Economics in Moscow.
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Helping Russia’s Agriculture Sector Transition to a Market Economy
Working with USAID and the US Department of Agriculture to help the Russian agricultural sector manage the transition to a market economy.
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Improving Rule of Law in Georgia
Working with Georgian NGOs and legal experts, IRIS helps to identify and implement reforms that make administrative and legal processes more transparent, and thus more democratically accountable.
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Judicial System Development in Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan
Modernizing judicial training programs in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, to make them more responsive to the needs of regional and local court judges.
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Kosovo Commercial Law Reform
A USAID project to support the privatization of state-owned enterprises.
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Montenegro Economic Reform
Drafting and implementing a mortgage law and property registry, as part of a program of broad economic reforms for Montenegro.
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New Tools for Assessing Sectoral Corruption & Integrity
Anti-corruption experts now have access to a set of powerful new assessment tools, tailored to generating the information necessary to design effective sector- or agency-specific programs (or program components) in post-communist states.
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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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Privatization and Economic Development in Kosovo
Facilitating the process of privatizing former socially-owned enterprises in Kosovo, and helping to shape an effective institutional and legal framework for private sector development.
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Secured Transactions Reform in Albania
IRIS facilitated a legislative initiative on secured transactions, developed administrative support for a secured transactions system, and conducted outreach activities among the legal, banking, business, academic, and government communities.
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Streamlining Permits and Inspections Regimes in Bosnia
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the IRIS Center is involved in providing expert support in regulatory reform and the simplification of business permitting processes under a USAID-funded project, Streamlining Permits and Inspections Regimes Activity (SPIRA) led by prime contractor Chemonics International.
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Strengthening Economic Think Tanks in Russia
IRIS is working with the Moscow Public Science Foundation to strengthen Russian economic think tanks as a civil society resource to support economic transition with sound policy analysis.
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Supporting the Private Sector in Romania
A project to improve the legal and regulatory environment for small businesses. Included a “red tape” analysis, an inventory of types of law that influence business activity, a series of town-hall style meetings, and public awareness campaigns.
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Tracking Corruption in Romanian Forestry
In support of the World Bank’s Forest Development Project, IRIS examined the patterns of corruption and illegal activities in Romania’s forestry sector and developed approaches to curtailing them.
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