JOR Insp Ref II

completed

The World Bank Groups Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice (T&C) provides a comprehensive array of solutions to support the efforts of client governments to boost trade and investment, to improve productivity and competitiveness at the national and industry levels, and to create a better environment in general for business operations. The T&C unit is supporting the Jordanian governments inspection reform initiative, through a National Inspection Reform Program. The main objective of this program is to support the Government of Jordan in building high quality inspection services that will lead to effective public inspections where scarce government resources would be more effectively utilized on targeted inspections based on risk assessment. The program targets fourteen (14) inspectorates covering different inspection areas such as public health, public safety, labor, environment, occupational safety & health, food, etc. This program is a continuation of the previous Inspection Reform project that was conducted between 2007 and 2009 by IFC, which resulted in the development of a national inspection reform strategy, as well as in-depth reforms at the labor and environment inspectorates. The program consists of the following components: 1. Reducing overlap and duplication between inspectorates, and adopting risk-based targeting systems 2. Development of inspection operational manuals, and planning mechanisms 3. Building an integrated inspection management system (including a shared enterprise registry) based on ICT applications 4. Development of a human resources management framework for inspectors 5. Establishment of a national reform model (Higher Committee for Inspection Reform)