What We Do

We focus on advising the public sector at state, local and regional levels to enhance the democratic processes of governance while supporting development. Our team is committed to work with public sector enables us to deliver success to our clients, using international or local best practices and standards to elaborate policies in different sectors.

AIMSS provides technical assistance to public institutions and policy makers in forming sector policy, analyzing the environment, government goals and objectives and designing optimal policy. We help our clients to think strategically by creating and refining policies in the fields of:

Public Finance Management

PFM entails the development of policies, organizations and systems to enable sustainable, efficient, effective and transparent management of public finances and importantly poverty alleviation. Our approach is based on an in-depth understanding of the institutional and organizational needs of a functioning public sector budget process, as well as the necessary financial management and reporting system. Having fundamental experience and expertise in PFM, we offer our clients various services, including:

• Evaluation of PFM
• Public expenditure and financial accountability (PEFA) assessment
• Medium Term Budget Frameworks (MTEF)
• Macroeconomics and Fiscal Forecasting
• Program Budgeting and output-oriented approaches
• Institutional reforms in ministries
• Budget and PFM legislation
• Budget monitoring and evaluation systems
• Audit and accountability systems

Economic Development and Doing Business Reform

At the core of any successful long-term development, lies an economic development policy. Governments must be able to effectively analyze and choose between alternative policy options - not only in setting an economic strategy but in ensuring that it remains on track.

We take a holistic approach to economic development policy. We use teams of highly qualified economists drawing from our experience across a range of technical areas, including the execution of business reforms, tax, customs, free trade, state procurement, and other industry sectors. We provide numerous services in this area, including:

• Economic policy analyses
• Macroeconomic modeling
• Macro-fiscal frameworks
• National Development plans
• Free trade regulations
• Tax & customs regulations
• One stop shop (OSS) implementation

Our team possesses expertise in reforming business environments to improve the competitiveness of companies, industries, and countries in domestic markets. Using top-down and bottom-up approaches, we develop necessary laws and regulations to reduce informality, while increasing employment and investment, as well as access to markets. We work with governments to strengthen their ability to develop and implement laws and regulations that support competitiveness, and streamline regulations already in place.

Regional Development Policy

The scope of regional development policy spans a wide range of topics from supporting the economic development of poorer sub-regions within a country, to decentralization programs that establish stronger local and regional institutions, to addressing social issues affecting a particular region. To cater for such a broad field, our services range from designing regional and local economic development strategies through to monitoring and decentralization. The services we provide in this area include:

• Regional and local economic development strategies
• Institutional linkages between local service delivery institutions, local authorities, and local communities
• Regional statistics

Public Administration and Civil Service Reforms

Our company is ready to work with public institutions in administrative and civil service reforms, including regulatory review of the existing environment, simplifying processes and procedures of service delivery, business process analysis and their improvement, designing structural and administrative reforms, government policy analysis and policy elaboration, optimization of service delivery, redesigning the license and permit system.

Construction Policy and Spatial Planning

The strong positive link between effective construction policy and the rate of economic growth is empirically well-established. To design an effective construction policies, an understanding of the ways in which construction investment and the provision of construction services affects poverty and growth, and the political economy of construction investment decisions, is crucial. The construction sector is susceptible to grand corruption because of the large amount of funds involved in the execution of projects and numerous legislative gaps and/or technical barriers as well as poor customer service and a lack of technical expertise. Development of institutional framework results in clear and streamlined policy and is an efficient solution to providing the development community with a high level of expertise and customer service. Our clients can benefit from several of our services, including:

• Developing Effective Institutional Framework
• Development of Effective Spatial Planning
• Elaboration of Clear and Streamlined Construction Permitting
• Introduction of Best-Practice Building Codes and Standards

Tax and Customs Policy

AIMSS helps governments to adopt and enforce tax & customs policies that promote entrepreneurship and competitiveness, facilitate international trade and allow governments to explore, develop and test new ideas to improve the tax & customs system. This ensures that change is properly targeted and that it’s likely impacts are understood, simultaneously allowing businesses of all sizes to operate profitably. By combining our broad range of expertise with a thorough understanding of tax &customs policy development trends and dynamics, we provide tailored solutions to our public and private clients in regulatory reform, trade policy, trade quality infrastructure and standards, integrated border management and customs modernization.

Public Private Dialogue

We promote dialogue between the public and private sectors to nurture proper conditions for private sector development and poverty reduction. This can be achieved through:

• Facilitating investment climate reforms
• Promoting better design of policy reforms
• Making policy reforms easier to implement
• Promoting transparency
• Good governance
• Building an atmosphere of mutual trust
• Understanding between public and private sectors