It was quite an honor for Scott Jacobs to receive an award for Regulatory Reform Champion from the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, on December 9 in Islamabad. At the National Regulatory Reforms launch in a ceremony at the Prime Minister’s house, the Prime Minister described the SMART initiative as a ‘quantum leap’
JC&A has been grateful to work in 2025 with the Pakistan Prime Minister, the new Cabinet Committee on Regulatory Reform, the Board of Investment and its talented SMART team led by Mr. Ahmed Waqar, the provincial governments, and the UK’s FCDO REMIT program to design and implement this national program of regulatory reform and regulatory
On 27 and 28 November, the Directorate for Standards, Metrology, and Quality of Vietnam (STAMEQ) and RT4D brought together over 50 government officials in Ninh Binh for a national workshop focused on applying Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) to develop smarter, more transparent, and evidence-based regulations. Cesar Cordova, of JC&A through hands-on discussions and practical exercises,
Cesar Cordova, Jacobs, Cordova & Associates, was pleased to teach in a 1.5-day national workshop in Ninh Binh on using Regulatory Impact Assessment to improve Viet Nam’s technical standards (Vietnam, November 2025) RT4D supports ASEAN and its Member States in fully implementing and maximizing the benefits of the Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade
Cesar Cordova and Jacobs, Cordova & Associates were pleased to support Regional Trade for Development’s (RTD4) program and help to provide three training held in Phu Tho, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City — exploring practical tools such as Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), stakeholder consultation, and compliance frameworks to strengthen Viet Nam’s capacity for
Very pleased to close the 20th year of the longest-running Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) course in the world. The JC&A-LUISS University 2025 RIA course spanned 5 days last week, and enjoyed the participation of professionals from Saudi Arabia, Zambia, The Netherlands, Brazil, Kosovo, and Italy on the beautiful LUISS campus in Rome. The lecturers were
JC&A Directors Cesar Cordova and Jorge Velazquez started this week a series of meetings in Hanoi to assist the Vietnamese Commission for Standards, Metrology and Quality improve the processes of drafting high quality Technical Regulations. We are assisting preparation of two Guidelines on good regulatory principles and on the use of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA).
Scott Jacobs talked about regulatory reform at the World Governments Summit in Dubai this week. Razan Salman, CNN’s Senior Economy & Government Reporter, hosted the discussion with Scott Jacobs and the OECD deputy head of the regulatory program, Daniel Trnka. She wrote, “An insightful conversation on Regulatory Impact Assessments, part of the Global Government Regulatory Forum
Licensing reform! JC&A has decided to post one of our regulatory reform tools for general use. This is the Decision Tree for Licensing Reforms that we’ve developed to guide reviews of several thousand licenses over the years. The first page helps you determine whether a license is needed and the second page helps you determine
Prime Minister of Pakistan approves one of the largest regulatory reform initiatives in the world (REMIT, Year in Review, https://lnkd.in/gYZcAgdr)
JC&A is pleased that the Commonwealth has recently published the Handbook on Designing and Implementing RIA Systems written by Scott Jacobs. The Handbook on Designing and Implementing RIA Systems (the ‘Handbook’) is intended to assist Commonwealth governments in designing and implementing programmes of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) across multiple regulatory institutions. It identifies major risk
