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FIAS' Advisory Service Products

FIAS offers a comprehensive range of services tailored to governments' needs, and helps improve their investment climate for domestic and foreign investors, facilitate public private sector dialogue, boost investment generation, and maximize impact on poverty reduction.

FIAS Advisory Service products are the following:

IFC also has the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) product.

FIAS professionals identify practices that:
  • impede productive investment
  • design practical action plans that are feasible from financial and political perspective
  • support clients in solution design
  • help in the oversight of the implementation process.
FIAS core advisory services help client governments to:
  • promote economy-wide regulatory reforms
  • assess the competitiveness of promising industry sectors
  • design institutions and reform processes to foster and sustain implementation.

FIAS has developed a two-tier approach in the provision of its advisory services:
  • Short-term standardized assistance utilizing structured methodologies to promote efficiency and consistency in service delivery, such as the rapid response services offered through the Doing Business Reform Advisory group
  • Customized long-term interventions, which are typically managed by combined project teams comprised of IFC field units and FIAS product specialists.
FIAS' advisory services have been consolidated into nine core products within two practice areas. Each one is led by a product team leader responsible for continually developing and upgrading the product to reflect evolving client demands as well as changes in best practices, i.e. increasing use of technology; developing and disseminating knowledge resources to support the product’s deployment in IFC field operations; and maintaining the quality of service delivery across the organization.