Establishment of favourable legal and regulatory conditions for private industry development
NIRAS has provided technical assistance and guidance for private public partnership (PPP) and policy formulation for an enabling business environment, through a number of projects and programmes. The work involves identifying the key business constraints in terms of policies and regulations and provides solutions for advocacy and PPP interventions to promote an enabling business environment.
This work is done by enhancing the facilitating and supporting roles of Governments. In Ukraine (Services for Managing Two Agro Based Value Chains in Ukraine / Agribusiness Component under the Rural Private Sector Development Programme, Danida, 2010-2013) NIRAS works with alignment of government support schemes, conflicting tax and custom regulations and/or business registrations. Additionally in Zambia (Programme for Luapula Agricultural and Rural Development , MFA Finland, 2006-2010) NIRAS provided technical assistance and guidance on land policies and land reforms to enhance agricultural productivity and is currently working with this in Tanzania (Lindi Mtwara Agribusiness Support Project, MFA Finland 2010-2014).
Main tasks involve assisting governments with systematic, instead of sporadic, land registrations to improve tenure security and farmers access to loans especially female farmers, by using land as collateral and long term agricultural investments.