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Summary of EDBM's Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Investment Climate Reforms in Madagascar

Core Content

The Economic Development Board of Madagascar (EDBM) was established in 2006 under the Office of the Presidency to support the Government of Madagascar (GoM) in achieving its development strategy, the Madagascar Action Plan (MAP), which aims to increase economic growth from 7% to 10% by 2012 and reduce poverty through a private sector-led high growth economy. A key component of this strategy is improving the investment climate, specifically by enhancing the ease of doing business (EoDB) ranking from 149th in 2007 to 80 by 2012.

To achieve these goals, the EDBM has been tasked with promoting Madagascar as an attractive investment destination, increasing both domestic and foreign investment, and improving business facilitation through policy advocacy and institutional reforms. The EDBM's M&E framework is designed to monitor the progress and impact of these reforms, and to ensure transparency, accountability, and effectiveness in its operations.

Main Objectives

The primary objectives of the EDBM's M&E system are:

• To monitor the overall investment climate and its improvement in Madagascar.
• To assess the extent to which EDBM is contributing to the improvement of the investment climate.
• To evaluate the impact of improved investment climate on key development goals such as poverty reduction, economic growth, and increased employment and exports.

The M&E system is also intended to:

• Promote transparency and accountability in the GoM's private sector development (PSD) reform process.
• Serve as a feedback mechanism to improve EDBM's strategies and interventions.
• Generate public awareness and political will for reforms by disseminating key findings.

Key Indicators

The M&E framework includes a range of indicators to measure the impact, outcomes, and outputs of EDBM interventions. These are categorized into:

Impact Indicators

• Reduced poverty:

  • Poverty Headcount Ratio (Global) – percentage of people below $1/day
  • Poverty Headcount Ratio (National) – percentage of people below the national poverty line (disaggregated by gender)
  • Regional Poverty Headcount Ratio – percentage of poor in different regions (disaggregated by gender)

• Reduced informality:

  • Informal sector as a percentage of GDP
  • Sales amount reported by a typical firm for tax purposes (%)

• Increased employment:

  • Number of manufacturing and service sector employment (disaggregated by gender) at national and regional levels
  • Number of employment in SMEs (disaggregated by gender) at national and regional levels

• Increased exports in priority sectors:

  • Volume and value of export from tourism, mining, and agri-business (national and in the three growth poles)
  • Export from tourism, mining, and agri-business as a percentage of total export (national and in the three growth poles)

• Growth of business:

  • Number of new firms registered
  • Number of firms filing tax returns with the tax authority

• Increased foreign and domestic investment:

  • Net inflow of FDI (national and in the three growth poles)
  • Volume of Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF), private sector (national and in the three growth poles)
  • Volume of investment of SMEs (national and in the three growth poles)

• Cost-savings of firms:

  • Aggregate cost-savings of firms due to simplified regulatory regime

Outcome Indicators

• Ease of doing business:

  • Reduced time, cost, and processes involved in business start-up, licensing, employment, property registration, credit, investor protection, tax, trade, contract enforcement, and business exit.

• Better bureaucracy:

  • Number of relevant government organizations publishing regulatory policies and procedures online
  • Number of government organizations with e-government options
  • Percentage of senior management time spent dealing with government regulation (disaggregated by regions)
  • Percentage of firms that view officials' interpretations of regulations as consistent and predictable (disaggregated by regions)
  • Average time firms spend in meetings with tax officials (days) (disaggregated by regions)

• Improved access to finance:

  • Percentage of firms that view access to finance as a major constraint

• Better public service delivery to enterprises:

  • Delay in obtaining an electrical connection (days)
  • Number of electrical outages (days)
  • Value lost due to electrical outages (% of sales)
  • Number of water supply failures (days)
  • Delay in obtaining a mainline telephone connection (days)
  • Firms using the Web in interaction with clients/suppliers (%)

• Streamlined customs:

  • Average time to clear direct exports through customs (days)
  • Longest time to clear direct exports through customs (days)
  • Average time to claim imports from customs (days)
  • Longest time to claim imports from customs (days)
  • Firms that export directly (%)

Key Recommendations

• The M&E system should be integrated from the start of EDBM's operations and not merely serve as a donor requirement.
• It should focus on the investment climate (IC) indicators that are of interest to stakeholders such as the private sector, the GoM, and the World Bank.
• The system should include both process and result indicators to assess the effectiveness of EDBM's interventions.
• The framework should be based on a logical chain of goals, objectives, outcomes, outputs, and activities, as outlined in the logframe.

Conclusion

The M&E system is essential for tracking the progress of investment climate reforms and demonstrating EDBM's effectiveness in promoting a conducive environment for business. It is designed to align with the MAP's goals of poverty reduction, economic growth, and increased investment and trade. The system will also help in generating regional competitiveness and identifying local best practices to improve the investment climate. The proposed framework includes a set of objectively verifiable indicators and is supported by stakeholder consultations, ensuring relevance and credibility.