تجربة تبسيط الإجراءات الإدارية في ضوء مبادرة الحوكمة من أجل التنمية (GFD)‎

Abstract EN

Excessive administrative burdens increase transaction costs in the market, impede the competitiveness of firms, limit initiative and encourage an informal economy.

While administrative procedures are needed to collect information and implement public policy, streamlining them makes life easier for citizens and businesses.

For these reasons, MENA governments are cutting red tape by implementing various administrative simplification policies, aiming to improve the regulatory framework, streamline administrative procedures and reduce paperwork.

Generally, administrative simplification activities focus on four approaches: 1) legal review and improvement; 2) process re-engineering and organizational streamlining; 3) the use of information and communication technologies (ICT); and 4) broader access to information and improved transparency.

This chapter identifies important elements of administrative simplification that are improving governance in the MENA region.

It briefly describes several promising initiatives underway in Arab countries, with a special focus on three cases from Bahrain, Lebanon and Tunisia.