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| Project name: | Streamlining Permits and Inspection Regimes Activity (SPIRA) | |||
| Short description: | SPIRA supports BiH’s efforts to reform and streamline permit and inspection procedures required to start and operate businesses. The purpose of SPIRA is to improve access to the marketplace for small and medium-size enterprises by reducing administrative barriers to their initiation and operation. In pursuing these objectives SPIRA directly supports the creation of one economic space in BiH and the integration of BiH’s economy with the European Union’s. SPIRA supports lines of action recommended in the European Charter for Small Enterprises by addressing the following elements: cheaper and faster start-up, an improved legislative and regulatory environment, improved communication between public authorities and the small business sector, stronger and more effective representation of small enterprises at all levels, and improved on-line access to information supporting business processes. In its work supporting streamlined construction permitting, SPIRA will seek the full incorporation of EU construction codes into BiH domestic standards. | |||
| Project Area: | Administrative procedures/Institutional communication | |||
| Donor: | USAID | |||
| Implementing organization or partner: | Chemonics International | |||
| Implementation status: | Completed | |||
| Duration: | September 2005-September 2009 | |||
| Total Budget (€): | 8,826,438.00 (USD 12,500,000.00) | |||
| Budget by years of implementation ($): | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
2008 |
| Contact person for Donor: | Kasey Vannett, USAID Sarajevo – Hamdije Ćemerlića 39, 387-33-702-300, www.usaid.ba | |||