New! Regulatory Guillotine: Kenya licensing reform a great success
New! 4 Regulatory Impact Analysis Training Courses Offered in 2008 and 2009 by the College of Europe and Jacobs and Associates Europe

Recent projects awarded to
Jacobs and Associates

  • Jordan Master’s Degree in Regulation. The European Commission announced in August 2008 that Jacobs and Associates Europe, partnering with the College of Europe, was awarded the contract to support development the University of Amman (Jordan) of a master's degree program in regulatory reform and privatization in infrastructure.
  • Bhutan RIA: The Asian Development Bank awarded Jacobs and Associates in June the project to support the Bhutan Government and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) to build a sustainable framework and implementation capacities for Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) in domestic policy processes.
  • South Africa RIA: The Office of the Presidency of South Africa asked Jacobs and Associates to carry out RIA training for government officials in September 2008.
  • Kenya Licensing Reforms: FIAS (IFC/World Bank) asked Jacobs and Associates in May 2008 to carry out a project to Monitor and Evaluate the Government of Kenya’s business licensing reforms.
  • Vietnam RIA: UNDP asked Jacobs and Associates in 2008 to assist the Ministry of Planning and Investment in developing a RIA plan and materials to implement RIA in the Ministry’s policies.

Regulatory Reform: Our work for 25 years

We help governments achieve sustainable improvements to national regulatory practices through:

Improving business environments to boost PSD

Designing national regulatory reform programs and engines of reform

Evaluating and benchmarking regulatory performance   

Regulatory simplification and the Regulatory Guillotine™

Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) programs
and RIA training

eGovernment tools for regulatory reform  

Business registration reforms

Inspections reforms and training

Sectoral regulators and competition reforms

Diagnostics and comparative research