Recent projects awarded to
Jacobs and Associates

• Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative: Phase Two (USAID, 2008-2013). Jacobs and Associates, partnering with DAI, is assisting Vietnam to implement the world’s largest regulatory guillotine project –Project 30 – which is a three-year initiative to simplify 20,000 to 30,000 administrative procedures to ensure consistency, simplicity, and transparency; and to fight corruption. We are also helping to build Vietnam’s RIA system. VNCI II is working with the Vietnamese government to address issues that hinder the country's business environment.
• RIA in Bulgaria (2009): The Council of Ministers of Bulgaria has asked Jacobs and Associates, partnering with IME in Sofia, to assist the Government in mainstreaming impact analysis (IA) into domestic policy processes at national and local levels. We will train hundreds of civil servants and stakeholders in 2009, and carry out a range of RIA research.
• Syria Business Environment Simplification Programme (BESP): (European Commission, 2009-2011) was awarded to a consortium in which Jacobs and Associates is partnered with Eurecna. BESP will contribute to the Syrian economic reform programme through the improvement and simplification of the business environment to converge with European good practices.
• 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 2008 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.