Robust and inclusive identification systems are crucial for development, as enshrined in sustainable development goal (SDG) target 16.9, which mandates countries to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.
... See More + For governments, modern identification systems allow for more efficient and transparent administration and service delivery, a reduction in fraud, and leakage related to transfers and benefits payments, increased security, accurate vital statistics for planning purposes, and greater capacity to respond to disasters and epidemics. Standards establish universally understood and consistent interchange protocols, testing regimes, quality measures, and best practices with regard to the capture, storage, transmission, and use of identity data, as well as the format and features of identity credentials and authentication protocols. Therefore they are crucial at each stage of the identity lifecycle, including enrollment, validation, deduplication, and authentication. Standards help ensure that the building blocks of identity systems are interoperable and testable, and can meet desired performance targets. The effectiveness of an interconnected and interoperable identification system cannot be ensured without standards. This catalog of technical standards can serve as a source of reference for the stakeholders in the identification systems ecosystem.
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The Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project of the Republic of Kosovo had a satisfactory overall outcome, a moderately satisfactory performance by the Bank and the monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial.
... See More + The lessons learned were: (1) A big achievement of RECAP was the commitment with which KCA began approaching the issue of gender-sensitivity in the field of property rights despite the slow process of improving women’s land rights against prevailing societal norms. (2) Under RECAP, all major donors who were implementing projects in the land sector were aware of the key issue of KCA’s institutional sustainability. (3) Additional mandates in processing the pending return of pre-1999 cadastral documents. (4) Another important lesson learned is the need to explain the project’s benefits to key officials in charge of project ratification.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4393 DEC 27, 2018
This Note summarizes the key findings and recommendations provided by the World Bank team to the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts (MoEEC), as the main counterpart in the project, and the Government of Croatia, concerning the modernization and integration of the business registration regime in Croatia.
... See More + It provides a high-level overview of the Diagnostic Analysis and ICT Assessment report, which is included in the Annex, and presents the reform alternatives for government decision makers and a recommended roadmap for implementation. The World Bank Group has been asked to assist the Government of Croatia in improving the business environment by establishing the foundations for a modern, electronic, centralized and up-to-date registry unifying data on all business entities operating in Croatia. The assistance is being provided under the Croatia Business Environment program, supported by the European Commission Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS). Currently, business registration in Croatia is a scattered process involving many agencies and disparate technology platforms. Business owners need to visit government agencies multiple times (often in person), submit the same information multiple times (mostly in paper form) and follow numerous steps to formalize their business. The agencies involved in the process are bound by complex legal framework and lack a national interoperability technology platform to enable sharing of information. On the other hand, the World Bank team recognizes that the business registration process in Croatia has great potential to evolve and become more streamlined, rule-based and transparent according to the EU directives and good international practices. The World Bank team identified the strengths of all involved agencies, key eGovernment enablers such as a common business identifier (OIB), as well as existing and planned initiatives which can lead to the implementation of the required reforms in a relatively short time period, assuming better inter-agency coordination and improved governance of business registration processes. The principles of the reform are outlined below, followed by the key issues and gaps identified, potential options for reform and a three-phased implementation roadmap. All the details used to design the reform options and implementation roadmap are presented in the Diagnostic and ICT Assessment reports. Also, the World Bank team identified relevant ongoing initiatives, which can, with minimal adjustments, enable implementation of the first phase of the reform roadmap until the end of 2017, to be operational from the beginning of 2018 with no additional funding beyond that already budgeted.
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This report summarizes the key activities, findings, recommendations and results implementedunder the Croatia Business Environment Program (P163649), supported by the European CommissionStructural Reform Support Service (SRSS).
... See More + The main counterparts for this program were the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts (MoEEC) and the Agency for Investments and Competitiveness (AIK). Under this program the World Bank group provided technical assistance to the Government of Croatia in improving the business environment by establishing the foundations for a modern, electronic, centralized and up-to-date registry unifying data on all business entities operating in Croatia.
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The development objective of Financial Inclusion Project for Sierra Leone is to increase the interoperability of digital payments and access to financial services.
... See More + This project has three compponents.1) The first component, Enhancing Interoperability of Digital Payments, will help enable the institutions provide new financial services and have more income generating services to be more viable entities. 2) The second component, Ensuring the Viability of the Payments System through Increasing Usage, would seek to help increase the usage and viability of the retail payment switch and pre-existing payments system. It has the following three sub components: (i) Supporting Linkages to the Payments system; (ii) Supporting rural connectivity and Linkages to the Payments System; and (iii) Overcoming Regulatory and Cybersecurity Hurdles to the Viability of the Payments System. 3) The third component, Project Implementation Support, aims to facilitate the successful implementation of the project through putting in place the institutional framework required, and facilitate private sector involvement in the project through the creation of a private sector committee.
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