Staffing and Organizational Structure - Investment Climate

FIAS SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGSeptember 18, 2008FIAS Staffing and Organizational StructureFIAS began its new business cycle on July 1, 2007 with a total of 77 regular/term staff. 1During FY08, FIAS grew to a total of 102 staff by fiscal year-end, a net growth of 33%from FY07. In terms of staff composition, FIAS increased the number of GE-GF staff by55% from 33 in FY07 to 51 in FY08, further leveraging the expertise of its senior staff.The ratio of GE-GF staff to GG-GH staff reached 117% (or 146% if ETCs are included).FIAS continued to support its operations with a fully integrated IBRD/IFC staffcomplement of 46% and 54% respectively, with 71% of FIAS staff based at HQ and 29%in the field. See Table 4: FIAS Staffing FY04 – FY09.Achieving this growth has not been easy for FIAS. And while the day to day supportreceived from HR staff is appreciated, HR policies and processes continue to pose achallenge in recruitment, especially in the field. This challenge is both in terms ofrecruiting new staff to field positions, as well as in rotating HQ-based FIAS staff,especially the more junior ones, to field assignments. Some of the issues facing FIASare: (i) lack of structured mobility packages for F and G1-Level staff; (ii) uncompetitivelocal salary pay scale in many countries; (iii) re-entry at HQ after field assignment; and(iv) the ability to offer the best junior staff a “BEE career”.As to FIAS’ diversity profile, as of June 30, 3008, and based on the Bank Group’sdiversity criteria, 2 FIAS has 17 female staff (49% of total) and 11 Part 2 staff (31% oftotal). Taking into account all GF+ staff (i.e., including staff funded by trust funds oncoterminous assignments), there are 26 female staff (46% of total) and 20 Part 2 staff(36% of total).Moving forward in FY09, FIAS plans to recruit 30 additional staff, for a net increase of24 staff, bringing the forecast staff total at the end of FY09 to 126. Furthermore, FIASwill ramp up its decentralization effort. By the end of FY09, 32% of FIAS staff shouldbe field-based, 33% of which in the Africa region. This is consistent with FIAS FY09staffing plan and supported by the US$32 million proposed budget.New Strategy and Analysis UnitOn July 1, 2008, FIAS established a new Strategy and Analysis unit. This unit is a jointunit of FIAS and the Investment Climate Department (CIC), addressing a range of crosscuttingissues and themes, including: (i) providing overall strategic guidance and qualityassurance for operational activities; (ii) liaising with other parts of the WBG regarding1 FIAS staff numbers include staff mapped to FIAS, but not Bangladesh Investment Climate Fund staff andIFC Facility staff working in joint programs.2 Bank Group criteria on diversity does not count JPAs, JPOs, SPAs and GF+ who are trust-funded.

private sector development activities; (iii) developing and implementing the BusinessEnabling Environment (BEE) monitoring and evaluation system (in close cooperationwith IFC’s M&E unit for Advisory Services); (iv) managing the development anddissemination of BEE knowledge products; (v) coordinating learning activities for staffand partner organizations; (vi) overseeing internal and external communications; (vii)providing support to product and project teams on specialized issues such as ITapplication for BEE; and (viii) conducting economic analysis relating to the workprogram. The mainstreaming of the competition dimension into all aspects of FIAS workis another key role of this unit.Following a competitive selection process, Ms. Cecile Fruman was appointed Manager ofthis new unit effective July 1, 2008. To date, there is a total of 15 CIC/FIAS staffreporting to this new unit, of which 8 are FIAS staff.A write up on FIAS’ organizational structure and FIAS’ organizational chart as ofSeptember 2008 are attached below.2

FIAS – Organizational Overview(September 2008)FIAS is the World Bank Group’s multi-donor Investment Climate Advisory Service. It advises governments ofdeveloping and transition countries on how to improve their investment climates for domestic and foreigninvestors. IFC, MIGA, and the World Bank contribute to its funding, and a wide range of donors provide cofinancingfor FIAS in general as well as for programs and projects undertaken by FIAS. The FIAS program isadministered by IFC. It includes IFC, MIGA and Bank staff and is structured as follows:HQ TeamFIAS’ HQ operations, based in Washington DC, are organized around three units focused on FIAS’ eight coreproducts, and one unit focused on cross-cutting functions, as follows:• Regulatory Simplification (CICRS) (Senior Manager: Tom Davenport)The Regulatory Simplification unit builds on FIAS’ established leadership role in designing, catalyzing andsupporting regulatory reform. It focuses in particular on the following Business Enabling Environment (BEE)products essential to business-friendly investment and trade environments: (i) Business Entry: reducing theburden of business registration and facilitating formalization of enterprises, including support to businessregistries; (ii) Regulatory Governance and Business Licensing: streamlining licenses, permits and inspectionsrequired in the course of operating a business, including Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) and regulatorycapacity building in the public and private sectors; (iii) Business Taxation: tax policies, rules and procedures, inparticular those affecting SMEs and the informal sector; and (iv) Trade Logistics: abolishing or simplifyingprocedures that stifle cross-border trade. FIAS is also the lead unit for an Access to Finance (A2F) product,namely (v) Secured Lending with focus on the improvement of collateral systems and registries.• Investment Generation (CICIG) (Manager: Ceci Sager)The Investment Generation unit helps client countries attract foreign investment while they work through thelonger-term reform agenda: (i) Investment Policy and Promotion, promoting an effective legal, policy andinstitutional framework for investment, coupled with complementary assistance to help market the improved, orimproving, business environment to foreign investors; and (ii) Industry Competitiveness, capitalizing on FIAS’expertise and experience in industry- and competition-specific policy analysis and reform strategies. FIAS’industry-specific work currently focuses on agribusiness, tourism, special economic zones (with particularemphasis on conflict-affected environments), and land policy. The bulk of the TA team that transferred fromMIGA in 2007 is in this unit. In addition, the unit is leading the implementation of the policy components ofIFC’s Health in Africa initiative in close collaboration with the World Bank’s Africa Human DevelopmentDepartment.• Doing Business Reform (CICRA) (Manager: Marialisa Motta)The main objective of the Doing Business (DB) Reform unit, a joint FIAS-DB unit established in October 2007,is to ensure, in close cooperation with other units of the World Bank Group, the rapid and effective follow-up toclient requests for support in designing and implementing reforms along the Doing Business agenda. The DBReform unit can address, via targeted, brief interventions, all ten areas included in the annual DB Reports:starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit,protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. The unitalso serves as a central resource, in terms of both people and codified knowledge, available to internal and3

external clients. The two core products managed by the DB Reform unit are: (i) DB Reform Advisory for shortterminterventions at the national level, and (ii) Sub-national DB Support for DB-based benchmarking andreform support interventions undertaken for and with clients at the provincial or municipal level.• Strategy and Analysis (CICSA) (Manager: Cecile Fruman)The Strategy and Analysis unit is a joint unit of FIAS and the Investment Climate department (CIC), addressinga range of cross-cutting issues and themes, including: (i) providing overall strategic guidance and qualityassurance for operational activities; (ii) liaising with other parts of the WBG regarding private sectordevelopment activities; (iii) developing and implementing the Business Enabling Environment (BEE)monitoring and evaluation system (in close cooperation with IFC’s M&E unit for Advisory Services); (iv)managing the development and dissemination of BEE knowledge products; (v) coordinating learning activitiesfor staff and partner organizations; (vi) overseeing internal and external communications; (vii) providing supportto product and project teams on specialized issues such as IT application for BEE; and (viii) conductingeconomic analysis relating to the work program. The mainstreaming of the competition policy dimension into allaspects of FIAS work is another key role of this unit.Field-based Teams• East Asia and Pacific (Manager: Russell Muir)• Africa (Manager: David Bridgman)Beyond the above-mentioned HQ-based units, FIAS has a number of field-based offices which are closelyintegrated with IFC’s regional advisory services. Many of these offices are staffed with joint FIAS/BEEmanagers who simultaneously report to FIAS and the respective regional Head of IFC Advisory Services. Twoof these regional teams are led by FIAS Managers, namely Africa (David Bridgman, Acting) and East Asia &Pacific (Russell Muir). The other regional teams are led by Program Managers reporting to the Head of theconcerned regional IFC advisory services team on one hand and to a FIAS Manager on the other. Finally, itshould be mentioned that FIAS and CIC include IFC, MIGA as well as Bank staff.FIAS General Manager (Pierre Guislain)The FIAS General Manager is in charge of the overall FIAS program under the oversight of the FIASSupervisory Committee, which is chaired by the Executive VP and CE0 of IFC (Lars Thunell) and also includesthe Executive VP of MIGA (James Bond, Acting), the Bank’s VP in charge of PSD (Michael Klein) and IFC’sVP for Advisory Services (Rachel Kyte). Pierre Guislain is also the Director of the World Bank Group’sInvestment Climate Department and leader of IFC’s Business Enabling Environment business line.Organizational ChartFIAS’ organizational chart is attached; it includes non-FIAS roles taken on by FIAS staff.4