Providing Municipal Services to Businesses Sample Clauses

Providing Municipal Services to Businesses. 5.1 Achievements during the Quarter PRODEL sub-contractor CARE implemented this component of the program through consultants hired to analyze and construct a model to improve services for businesses in selected municipalities during the 1st quarter of 2009. This analysis includes field work as well as a review of literature that addresses issues impacting municipal services to businesses. According to a report by the World Bank entitled Doing Business in Ecuador 2008, Ref. xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, 14 procedures or steps are required to start a business in Ecuador. Focusing on the cost, time, and number of steps, the report ranked Ecuador in 136th place out of 181 countries in ease of doing business. Several of the steps analyzed in this report are the responsibility of municipal offices in Ecuador including municipal inspections and business registration. Therefore, the analysis of the business registration process of municipal governments conducted is considered by the PRODEL team, to be an important aspect of the business environment improvement model and the need to streamline these registration processes during initial assessments was identified. Nevertheless, it is important to point out that PRODEL’s preliminary findings indicate that the main bottlenecks for the business registration process does not lie with the municipal business registration office (although there is room for improvement at all levels), but instead with procedures that are dictated by comprehensive national level policies in Ecuador. Among the findings of PRODEL assessments are the following: On the whole, the business registration process within the municipal offices analyzed is fairly efficient. Permits required prior to the business registration process with the municipality include: the Fire Department, Ministry of Health, Superintendent of Companies, the IRS, and others that involve complex and often time consuming processes. These institutions work separate from the municipality and do not have a direct relationship with the municipality. Greater coordination between the various actors constitutes a potential way to streamline procedures and speed up the business registration process in the future. Constituents view their relationship with the municipality as an obligation to pay taxes and fees from which they derive very little benefit. There is a significant amount of informality in business in Ecuador and not all Ecuadorian businesses are legally constituted. Larger compan...
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Providing Municipal Services to Businesses. 5.1 Achievements during the Quarter During the 4th quarter of FY 2008, PRODEL team members met with representatives from the new target municipalities to discuss the goals and objectives of the program, and to identify their needs for services and infrastructure. The infrastructure needs identified will be discussed in a joint workshop PRODEL-PIDEM to be held during the 1st quarter of FY2009. Also during this quarter, PRODEL coordinated with the MYPE Competitiva program based in Peru to bring specialists to Ecuador to assist in analyzing efficiencies within five municipalities targeted by PRODEL. Further, these discussions also sought to determine ways to strengthen the services municipalities provide to the private sector, possibly including streamlining municipal administrative procedures, improving service delivery processes and implementing the Municipal Scorecard methodology.
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Providing Municipal Services to Businesses. 5.1 Achievements during the Quarter The proposed Management Model for Improving the Business Climate at the municipal level developed in coordination with municipal office personnel was formally submitted and follow up was provided to promote its implementation with newly elected officials as well as current officeholders who will remain in office until August 4, 2009 in participating PRODEL municipalities. Below is a summary of the activities undertaken by municipality during the 3rd quarter of FY 2009.
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