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As one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters,

Indonesia’s building sector accounted for more than a

quarter of total energy use in 2004—a share that is expected to increase to nearly 40 percent in the next two decades. In response, IFC advisory services in the region is helping the government of the capital province, Jakarta, develop a green buildings code. FIAS activities have supported the code’s incubation and development. The code sets energy and water efficiency requirements for buildings and will require climate change adaption practices to be included in building designs. Implementation of the code is expected to reduce energy consumption in large commercial and high-rise residential buildings, potentially cutting around 2.7 million tons of carbon dioxide per year by 2020. This is equivalent to carbon sequestered annually by 60 million grown trees or equivalent to the current annual emission of Macao SAR, China (2.4 million tons of carbon dioxide).

The goal is to create a code that is simple to implement, ef- fective, and easy to monitor. The project’s analysis modeled a range of possible changes for each commercial building type

in Jakarta which met clear criteria for market preparedness and ease of implementation, while maximizing the benefits of energy (CO2) and water reductions in a cost-effective manner.

The details of the code have been developed in close consul- tation with government as well as private sector stakeholders, including developers, landlords, and professional associations. “To help achieve [the national target of cutting carbon

emissions by 26 percent by 2020], Jakarta has been working on a number of sustainable city initiatives since 2008,” said Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo at the launch of the project. “With effective implementation of the green buildings code in

Jakarta, the city can serve as a model for implementation in other cities in Indonesia.”

The project is evaluating the feasibility of various measures under the draft green building code and hosting a series of consultation workshops with key private sector players. It is providing support to the local government through a series of training and capacity-building initiatives, and to the private sector through a review of financing needs and incentives for firms to retrofit existing buildings.

assignment jointly funded by FIAS and MIGA. As part of the assignment, the linkages between investment climate reforms and political risks are being researched, with the goal of developing a new political risk assessment tool that can be used by countries interested in lowering non- commercial risks for cross-border investors.

FIAS-supported global product teams continued in FY11 to collaborate closely with practitioners in their respective re- form arenas within and outside the Bank Group. On the tax work, for example, the FIAS-funded product team partnered closely with different units within the World Bank Group in- cluding Poverty Reduction and Economic Management and IFC’s Legal Department. In Tunisia, the team is supporting the World Bank’s assistance to the transition government, working with the Ministry of Finance in designing and implementing a reform of tax and customs formalities affect- ing businesses with the objective of streamlining procedures, cutting costs, and improving transparency.

Externally, the global tax work is closely coordinated with the International Tax Dialogue, which comprises all major players providing tax technical assistance including the International Monetary Fund, the OECD, regional tax groupings, and major donors. Tax transparency-related collaboration includes the G20, the OECD, the Global Forum for Tax Transparency and Exchange of Information, the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, and the European Commission on supporting the global mandate to improve tax transparency in countries through technical assistance. The team also works with regional tax admin- istrators’ forums such as the Africa Tax Administrators Forum. During FY11 other innovative partnerships with lead- ing institutions in the investment climate arena were organized, including a tripartite cooperation with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Bronnoysund Registration Centre (BRC) in Norway. The first agreement of its kind, it allows FIAS-supported teams to draw on the business regulation experience of state agencies from developed economies to benefit projects in developing countries. Experts from BRC shared their firsthand experiences with clients in Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Togo. In addition, a comprehensive case study of business registration reforms in Norway was

developed and made available to reform practitioners. This pilot approach to partnerships with relevant state

agencies from developed countries is a model to be replicated in similar partnerships going forward. Partnerships on competition policy issues with the OECD, the International Competition Network, and the International Development Research Centre have been nurtured through collaboration on analytical work, participation in knowledge events, and coordination to take advantage of synergies among partners.

On trade, the FIAS-supported team engaged with interna- tional organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the Caribbean Community and Common Market, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Benchmarking tools such as the subnational Doing

Business reports (see p. 25 for more detail) also rely

on strong partnerships. Increasing demand from client countries to conduct repeated benchmarking studies in 16 economies has paved the way to gradually transfer the methodology, share best practices, and develop expertise in client countries by partnering with local institutions and governments. Currently, the team is working in partnership with think tanks and academic institutions in Mexico, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, and the Philippines. After benchmarking 38 economies and more than 300 cities, a new franchising model is being developed in Mexico, the pioneer country for such subnational studies. There, the local strategic partner is responsible for imple-

menting the project in collaboration with the government, while the role of the Bank Group focuses on providing quality control and the Doing Business brand. Strong engagement with donor partners, not only on funding but also through staff learning and knowledge activities, continues to provide the cornerstone for the success of FIAS activities. This engagement occurs through platforms such as the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development, donor participation on advisory panels for different global products, as well as learning events sponsored by global product teams and at the project level. For more details on funding and staff exchanges, see Financial Results and Resource Use section, p. 36.

The knowledge management and learning program is designed to establish the thought leadership of

FIAS-supported activities in the area of investment climate reform within and outside the Bank Group.

In FY11, the program was further strengthened, engaging with practitioners, government and private

sector clients, and donor partners and other stakeholders.

As part of this approach, over 45 events attracting more than 1,500 staff and external participants—including seminars, “deep dive” learning events, and client peer-to-peer workshops—were supported by FIAS in FY11 (see box, p. 34). One such activity was the global networking and learning event for the investment policy product held in Vienna, Austria. Attended by more than 120 participants from 43 countries, it helped deepen

the technical skills of operations officers and established strong networks with government officials and investment policy practitioners.

To help increase staff capacity on investment climate issues and themes, intensive learning events such as the trade logistics, business registration, agribusiness and tourism product workshops were organized during the Bank Group’s 2011 Financial and Private Sector Development Forum in Washington, D.C. Under the theme of “Building Competitiveness,” the forum brought together more than 600 Bank Group colleagues, private sector development executives, academics, and donor representatives to discuss the latest issues in financial sector and private sector development.

Furthermore, contributions to the World Bank Group

Entrepreneurship Snapshots—one of the most comprehen-

sive datasets on cross-country firm entry data—have been created in cooperation with the World Bank Development Research Group, IFC, and the Kauffman Foundation, yielding wide recognition across the World Bank Group (see pp.13–14).

In FY11 several flagship reports were published, includ- ing: Investing Across Borders, Rebuilding Business and

Investment in Post-conflict Sierra Leone, and Managing for Impact—FIAS Strategy for FY12–16. These are also avail-

able electronically on the investment climate Web site. A wide range of other publications were produced including handbooks, guidebooks, technical papers, the

Investment Climate In Practice note series, a viewpoint

note, and a number of SmartLessons (see p. 35 for a listing of key FY11 publications, including short summaries of each).

COMMUNICATIONS

Communications activities in FY11 were geared to show- case how FIAS-supported investment climate work across the globe has contributed to results and had a substantive impact on clients’ development objectives, including a more vibrant private sector, new businesses, jobs, and growth. This “results communications” agenda has relied on solid monitoring, evaluation, and impact data as the basis for feature stories, multimedia, and other communi- cations products. Through client, private sector, and other stakeholder testimonials, on-the-ground stories provided a human face to the data, presenting results in a compelling and balanced way.

In FY11, the investment climate thematic Web site (www.wbginvestmentclimate.org) was successfully launched. The Web site is among the top-10 search results for the term “investment climate” on Google. It

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT,

is receiving strong interest, with page views rising from 3,000 when it was launched in October 2010 to 136,000 views by June 2011, becoming the main platform for disseminating investment climate-related knowledge products and information.

Electronic versions of most popular investment climate handbooks including the Investment Generation Toolkit,

How to Reform Business Licenses, and the Health Policy

Toolkit are now available, making these knowledge

products easily accessible and highly interactive for practitioners.

Several slideshows and short films documenting success stories through compelling client and entrepreneur testi- monials were produced in FY11. Four investment climate videos were well received by viewers, garnering a total of 8,000 views on YouTube.

Cultivating a community of social media contributors and leveraging World Bank Group social media platforms created opportunities for direct conversations and discus- sions about investment climate reforms. Stories featuring investment climate project activities and results were posted across the World Bank Group’s social media channels, such as the IFC and World Bank corporate, country- and region-specific Facebook and Twitter accounts. Investment climate staff actively contributed to thematic blog sites, including the World Bank’s Private Sector Development Blog.