PRACTICE AREAS

Systems Approach to Organizational Development

IBI helps each client organization understand the larger system within which it exists and to know the constraints and opportunities that the system provides. We look for innovations that can unlock an organization’s performance and forge more productive relationships within the system.

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• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program

• Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Activity

• Nepal Organizational Management Assessment

• Liberia Administrative and Systems Strengthening Program (LASS)

Human and Institutional Capacity Development (HICD)

The USAID HICD framework helps organizations identify important performance gaps at the organizational, team, and individual levels, analyze root causes, address them through targeted solutions, monitor improvements through feedback loops, and manage change.

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Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Using PDIA, IBI works with clients to prioritize performance problems. We help organizations create space that allows for experimentation and the iterative process to take place so that reforms are identified and owned by the people closest to the work. 

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• Liberia Administrative and Systems Strengthening Program

Leadership Training

IBI’s International Leadership Center (ILC) is dedicated to helping organizations and individuals improve their performance by mastering the skills they need and learning to analyze and mobilize the resources needed to succeed. Training specialties include leadership and effective management skills development, increasing cross-cultural capabilities, and special services.

Find out more about IBI's International Leadership Center

National ICT Policy

Access to and affordability of an increased range of quality services requires a supporting policy environment. IBI assesses country ICT policy environments and regulatory regimes, and assists to improve them.

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• Ghana Trade and Investment Promotion for Competitive Export Economy

• Digital Liberia and eGovernance Capacity Building

• Liberia Administrative and Systems Strengthening Program

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program

• Liberia Justice Administration and Management Support Project

Automating Public Financial Management

IBI ensures that in each step of the process of automating PFM, technology solutions are considered with a long-term, user-oriented view in mind. IBI has been able to save its government clients time and money by ensuring staff are trained on using technological platforms, relevant financial management offices have the tools in place to use them, and operating procedures are established. IBI works with financial management staff to ensure that any new platform or protocol is created in collaboration with end users and coupled with training and mentoring.

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• Digital Liberia and eGovernance Capacity Building

• Liberia Administrative and Systems Strengthening Program

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program

• Liberia Justice Administration and Management Support Project

Mobile Money and Payment Systems

Mobile money has the potential to make financial services available to the unbanked, which in some cases can make up more than 90% of a country’s population. IBI assists countries to develop and refine regulatory frameworks and implement mobile money programs so this tool can be expanded. By piloting government payment programs, IBI has proven a clear path to financial savings for both the government and the recipients of payments.

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• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program

E-Government

As cell phones, computers, and internet access become more available to citizens, many services are improved by rapid digital access. IBI works with governments to develop and implement e-Government solutions. Once a basic platform is created, customs payments, tax payments, and health and education service delivery quickly improve relations among government ministries and agencies, as well as between citizens and governments. IBI assisted the Liberian government and regional donors to develop a rapid ICT strategy during the Ebola crisis, which contributed to efforts to effectively combat the epidemic.

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• Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Activity

• Digital Liberia and eGovernance Capacity Building

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program

Dynamic Geo-spatial Analysis

IBI uses geo-spatial analysis in unique ways, creating a national or regional baseline linking population, economic flows, and resources to planning of all types. In three countries, Gabon, Liberia, and Mozambique; our studies became the basis of national development strategies.

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• Gabon Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of the Mining Sector

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program

• Mozambique Spatial Development Strategies

• Mozambique Vilankulo City Development Strategy

Government Assets Management

IBI designs and installs electronic inventory tracking systems, using integrated bar code and database technology, to track physical assets “from cradle to grave.” This saves governments money, contributes to efficient procurement and maintenance, and prevents theft. IBI also designs and installs computerized mining cadastres to register and enforce mining licenses.

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• Digital Liberia and eGovernance Capacity Building

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program

• Liberia Justice Administration and Management Support Project

Market Information Systems

IBI provides technical assistance to design and install market information systems. Simple applications of readily available technology, such as the use of cell phones for rural agricultural markets, are combined with more sophisticated statistical analysis methods and mass media information broadcast to contribute to improved economic performance.

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• Cameroon Market Information System

Trade and Value Chains

IBI has helped overcome barriers to trade at the local, national, and regional levels. Our approach begins with getting law and policy right. Going beyond policy we provide human and institutional capacity development at the firm and cluster levels to identify opportunities and make use of comparative advantages.

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• Andean Trade Capacity Building Program

• Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Activity

• Egypt Technical Assistance for Policy Reform

• Ghana Trade for Improved Performance of the Export Economy

• Madagascar Business and Market Expansion

• Trade Mali

• Uganda Strengthening the Competitiveness of Private Enterprises

• Ukraine Agricultural Policy

• Ukraine Customs Reform Activity

Small and Medium Size Enterprise Development

IBI has outstanding experience in SME development, drawing on broad market building, trade facilitation, communications, and management and leadership development experience.

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• Senegal DynaEntreprises Senegalaises

• Lao PDR - Laos Business Environment (LBE)

• Trade Mali

• West Africa—Growth Through Engendering Enterprise in ECOWAS Countries

• SME Development for Youth Employment

• Peru Micro and Small Enterprise Facilitation Program

Natural Resource Management

IBI specializes in providing strategies for the sustainable use of natural resources. In the case of non-renewable resources, such as minerals, IBI advises clients how to negotiate optimal concession agreements and invest the proceeds from these resources into long-term capital assets to preserve their value for future generations while earning dividends to use for current needs.

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• Tanzania Tax and Mining Policy

• Gabon Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of the Mining Sector

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Liberia Model Agricultural Concessions

• Liberia Governance and Economic Support Project

• Madagascar Mineral Resources Governance Project

Growth Poles and Growth Corridors

IBI helps answer the questions: Where are a country’s or region’s most suitable areas for multi-sector growth? Why? And what implications does this have for planning and attracting investments in multi-use infrastructure? Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), economic analysis, and participatory appraisals, we analyze and graphically portray diverse types of spatial and quantitative data to better facilitate consultation, participation, decision-making, and investment programming.

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• Gabon Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of the Mining Sector

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Mozambique Spatial Development Strategies

• Mozambique Vilankulo City Development Strategy

Financial Services

IBI provides financial solutions to individuals and businesses across three areas: (1) capital markets; (2) non-bank financial intermediation; and (3) pension and insurance reform.  IBI professionals and consultants from capital markets, investment intermediaries, stock exchanges, regulatory agencies, pension and insurance funds, international banks and leading economists, supports the full breadth of industry related needs.

Business Enabling Environments

INDONESIA: ASEAN Policy Implementation (API)

Post-conflict Reconstruction

IBI helps governments from the local to the national level rebuild organizations and government-wide systems to cement peace and restart economic activity.

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• Liberia Governance & Economic Management Assistance Program

• Guinea Public Financial Management

• Serbia Business Enabling Project

Public Financial Management

IBI helps governments from the local to the national level refine the ways in which revenues are collected, budgeted, allocated, and transferred--building automated, transparent systems.

Pakistan Capacity Development Services (CDS)

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Domestic Resource Mobilization and Taxation

IBI helps revenue authorities, tax policy decision-makers, and private sector stakeholders to establish and implement fair revenue mobilization systems. A strong revenue mobilization strategy enables public investment, attracts private investment, and enables economic growth.

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• Liberia Governance and Economic Support Program

• Liberia Governance and Econonmic Management Assistance Program

• Tanzania Tax and Mining Policy

Procurement Reform

IBI provides expertise in international best practices to improve government procurement policies and procedures. Our experts conduct needs assessments, develop multi-lingual manuals and train procurement officials to standardize procurement, improve efficiency, and prevent corruption.

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• Ethiopia Procurement

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Project

Customs Reform

The pace at which global trade is expanding presents a challenge for customs and ports officials whose service is vital to economic growth. IBI addresses these challenges with a blend of technological know-how and use of global best practices in policy and procedures.

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• Bangladesh Trade Facilitation Activity

• Benin Customs Reform

• West Africa Regional Trade

• Gambia Streamlined Customs Procedures

• Timor-Leste: Revenue Enhancement For Good Governance Activity (REGGA)

Mining Policy, Law and Administration

IBI helps countries develop sound environmental and governance policies that maximize the benefits and minimize risks associated with extractive industries. IBI has also implemented several projects designed to improve the impacts of small-scale mining for gold and gemstones, which, in many countries, contributes greatly to alleviating rural poverty.

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• Gabon Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of the Mining Sector

• Central African Republic, Diagnostic Trade Integration Study 

• Madagascar Governance of Mineral Resources

• Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program

• Tanzania Tax and Mining Policy

• Burundi Mineral Policy and Regulatory Framework Reform 

Democracy Building and Elections

IBI supports peaceful transitions of power and the establishment of enduring and responsive democratic governance.

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• Liberia Administrative and Systems Strengthening 

Impact Assessment

The need for evidence-based assessments of the impact of development interventions is essential for ensuring that projects and policies, current and future, bring about the intended positive change. IBI uses rigorous research methods to ensure that its impact assessments accurately uncover the effects of project activities. 

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• Peru Evaluation of Micro and Small Enterprise Facilitation Program

• Kosovo Economic Management for Stability and Growth Evaluation

• Kosovo Transformational Leadership Impact and Performance Evaluation

• Egypt Evaluation of Technical Assistance for Policy Reform

GIS / Data Mapping for M&E

GIS and data mapping have the potential to improve M&E data collection and ongoing review. IBI connects GIS databases to M&E systems to design web-based databases for monitoring and evaluating projects on a massive scale. 

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• Uganda Monitoring and Evaluation Management Services