Bosnia and Herzegovina Investment Climate Project

completed

The project provides programmatic assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina, working with selected governments at all four levels: national, entity, cantonal, and municipal. It provides critical regulatory and investment promotion tools to help the country in its EU accession process and to reduce the administrative burden to businesses, attract foreign direct investment (FDI), increase exports, and enable a single economic space. Agribusiness is a key sectoral focus of the project. Specific objectives are to: 1) streamline and simplify business administration procedures; 2) implement and strengthen the regulatory quality system; 3) reduce the administrative burden; 4) develop and implement a sector-specific investment strategy; 5) review and improve the existing FDI law and policies; and 6) increase the degree of harmonization of food safety regulation.