The purpose of the project is to support the Government of Lebanon in reducing the burden on investors by reducing the time and procedures related to business entry through regulatory streamlining and simplification, and Information and Communication Technology. The project aims at providing a roadmap for the Government to reform its business registration system in general, and it gives special focus to the tourism sector by streamlining the tourism licensing processes and procedures. Ultimately, the project is expected to facilitate entry into the formal sector and promote entrepreneurship.
Business Registration:
This component entails the development of a reform strategy and implementation plan for reforming the business registration system at the Ministry of Justice's Commercial Registry. The strategy will cover four areas: processes, legal enabling regime, organizational issues, and ICT. Recommendations will include streamlining of processes required to register a new business to reduce associated time and steps, recommendations for legal/regulatory changes, and development of a sustainable long-term ICT strategy for the Commercial Registry covering transformation to online system, e-linkages with other entities, requirements for upgraded platform, staffing, and capacity building.

- Tourism Licensing:
A- Assessment
- Mapping and analysis of every regulatory process, resulting in detailed process maps and description related to tourism licenses.
B. Reform Recommendation
- Process improvement/simplification recommendations: developed based on the identified bottlenecks, overlaps and duplication of functions between MoT and municipalities
C. Implementation
- Consensus Building: engaging with decision makers to build consensus around the new reform, and to develop implementation plan and consultations with relevant policy makers across the government
- Awareness Raising: targeting civil servants working on implementation, to be built around new policies and procedures and legal changes.