GLCC Solutions

🇯🇴In the framework of the World Bank Group-funded Investor Journey Indicators Advisory Project, GLCC Solutions is implementing a new project in Jordan – ‘the Prioritization for Sectorial Licensing Study’ aiming at benefitting Jordan’s business community, reducing regulatory burden and saving considerable compliance costs, thus translating into economic growth and creating a wealth of the society in the country.

📌The overall objective of this assignment is to support the Government of Jordan (GoJ)’s efforts in identifying sectoral licensing priorities for future reforms in Jordan. This will be done by conducting a prioritization of 82 sectoral licenses issued by 17 Sectoral Regulators to help inform the selection and streamlining of sectoral licensing in the next 2-5 years.

🔴GLCC Solutions is tasked to come up with a shortlist of licenses that could be considered for reform through developing a prioritization framework that identifies key factors to be considered and apply these on sectoral licenses to identify reform priorities and their legal requirements and explain the reform benefits and impact on the private sector.

📈For that very purpose, GLCC Solutions is committed to elaborating on Economic and Institutional factors for the prioritization framework and the scoring system for each factor and its weight in the final assessment. Each license will be run and assessed against a set of Reform Factors to recommend specific reforms, such as abolishment, reengineering, or transferring to other regulatory tools and mechanisms.

📑Moreover, to ensure the reform's durability, sustainability, and efficiency, we consider it essential to develop a deeper and more comprehensive reform menu for those agencies where institutional readiness is present. With that in mind, our team of experts provides expert opinions and recommendations on horizontal and vertical regulatory framework reforms that need to be undertaken in Jordan to improve the investment climate further and create a business-conducive regulatory environment.

🌏At the project's inception stage, the GLCC Solutions team of international experts conducted 2 field missions to Amman, Jordan. An international team, together with Jordanian experts, carried out individual meetings with Sectoral Regulators. These in-depth interviews and collecting first-hand data facilitated a better understanding of the peculiarities and particularities of each selected 82 licenses, as well as evaluating the institutional readiness and capacity needs of the Sectoral Regulators for reforms. The fact-finding phase was complemented by consultations with the business community and business support organizations seeking to capture the private sector’s perception and insights on the existing licensing system and share feedback. In parallel with consultations, a high-level policy and legal review were conducted to identify factors to integrate legal consideration into the prioritization exercise.

✅At the end of the inception phase, in an effort to present the key findings and preliminary results of the study, GLCC Solutions held an online meeting with representatives of the key counterpart - the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply of Jordan, and the World Bank. The meeting also contributed to the agreement on the further course of actions and taking the project forward.

Our Senior Advisor Giorgi Tskhakaia talks about the importance of economic freedom to overcome stagnation and accelerate economic growth.

According to Fraser Economic Freedom Index Ukraine is the only “Least Free country” in the European continent. Overregulation, excessive bureaucracy, number of controlling bodies have become the burden for Ukrainian businesses and fetters freedom of entrepreneurs in the country.

The Government shall embed and legislate Economic Freedom policy to prevent the adoption of new burdensome business regulations and bring to an end the overregulation.

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📢 We are happy to post that the Ukrainian Parliament passed our Law No. 5009 on Getting Electricity with 347 votes! 🎉✌️

The Law brings revolutionary changes as it:

⭕️ dramatically reduces the time from 290 days to 97 for electricity connection

⭕️ eliminates multiple touchpoints, authorities and bureaucratic processes for obtaining technical terms and approvals. Instead of 25 authorities, a business will deal only with ONE body

⭕️ encourages unprecedented transparency of information, which was frequently used for ‘bargaining’

⭕️ totally de-bureaucratizes land use rules for a power grid

The new Law can serve as a useful proxy for the broader performance of the electricity sector and will bring benefits to every business in Ukraine.

This is a very Unique Victory for Ukraine and, hopefully, it will also result in significant improvement of Ukraine’s position in Doing Business 2023 in Getting Electricity.

✅ We at GLCC Solutions completed an assessment of 12 countries’ compliance with WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement.

🔍 📚 The TFA assessment was conducted within the framework of the “Economic Development, Governance and Enterprise Growth in Europe and Eurasia” (EDGE) project supported by the USAID.

🌏 We are happy to be part of 3-day workshops where our team presented key assessment findings and recommendations for strengthening regional trade facilitation activities among Western Balkans and Eastern European countries.

🇦🇱 Albania, 🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, 🇧🇦 Bosnia-Herzegovina, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇬🇪 Georgia, 🇽🇰 Kosovo, 🇲🇩Moldova, 🇲🇪Montenegro, 🇲🇰North Macedonia, 🇷🇸Serbia and 🇺🇦Ukraine, as well as USAID, WCO, WBG, EU Commission and CEFTA

🇰🇿🏛GLCC Solutions together with the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan conducted a workshop within the framework of the Justice Sector Institutional Strengthening Project (supported by the World Bank).

👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️The workshop was aimed at discussing conceptual, policy, and legal recommendations presented by the GLCC Solutions’ team on the Administrative Procedural and Process-Related Code of Kazakhstan which is a novelty for the legal system of Kazakhstan.

We would like to thank all attendees of the workshop. The special thanks go to the Minister of Justice of Kazakhstan Marat Beketayev, the Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Tamara Duissenova, the Chairman of the Specialized Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan A.K. Kydyrbaeva, and the Team Leader of the GLCC Solutions Giorgi Papuashvili for taking an active role in this very important discussion. 🙏🙏

🌏GLCC Solutions team made every effort to share the international experience of other countries with the developed administrative justice system on the law enforcement practices, as well as to raise issues on key challenges and ways forward for Kazakhstan.

⚖️ Within the framework of the Justice Sector Institutional Strengthening Project, between 2 -11 November, 2020, GLCC Solutions team members conducted an 8-day online training on discussing the provisions of the Administrative Procedural and Process-Related Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

🏛 The training was organized for representatives of government agencies as well as employees of the legal departments of akimats of all regions.

The training was conducted by our Senior Advisor - George Papuashvili - former Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, Ex Minister of Justice of Georgia🇬🇪, Member of the Venice Commission, as well as other international experts, such as judges of the administrative courts of Germany 🇩🇪and Latvia🇱🇻 Polish lawyers🇵🇱 and national experts🇰🇿

Our Senior Advisor Giorgi Tskhakaia at the All Ukrainian Forum Ukraine 30 - Digitalization discussing a legal proposal on authorized private sector inspection services in construction regulation.👇🏻

Today’s global trend goes for introducing third party inspection for a whole lifecycle of construction, which is currently practiced in 93 economies out of 190 covered by the Doing Business.

If such international best practice is applied in Ukraine, it will help the country to:
✅ Fight against corruption and increase transparency
✅ Reduce the number of procedures and time in the construction permitting area
✅ Increase number of issued construction permits

All potential risks of delegating enforcement functions from the state to the private sector, that has been voiced during the discussions, has been addressed by the draft law through:
▪️ Authorization / License
▪️ Criminal liability
▪️ Financial guarantee/Insurance

📌 The final work is being carried out by the Office of Simple Solutions and Results, the Ministry and the Parliament Committee jointly, and it is hoped that the draft law will be registered in the Parliament in the near future.

Ґіорґі Цхакая про цифровізацію у сфері містобудування. Форум "Україна.30"

📢 GLCC Solutions Senior Advisor Semyon Krivonos was appointed as the head of the newly created DIAM for construction control and supervision in Ukraine ✌️

His proficiency, courage and complete integrity gives us all believe that he will be a great game changer in the path of killing bureaucracy and corruption in construction sector in Ukraine.

🇺🇦 🏗🏡 GLCC Solutions’s team members have been working on Construction Permits reform in Kyiv City and Ukraine, as a whole, since 2015

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⭕️ GLCC Solutions, an International Consulting Company is a team of partners with more than 17 years of extensive experience in private and public sector consultancy in Georgia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, specializing in improving business and investment climate, tax and customs reform, risk-based inspections, public service delivery and public procurement, e-governance, etc.

⭕️ GLCC Solutions’ international team gained trust among partners by successfully implementing complex projects in up to 15 developing countries and emerging market economies globally. We are an international team benefiting from the uniqueness of each individual, their backgrounds and experiences.

📍GLCC Solutions headquarters are located in Tbilisi, Georgia🇬🇪
It runs a Regional Branch in Kiev, Ukraine 🇺🇦 - GLCC Solutions ‘Ukraine’.