Policy Advise

As the world tries to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, governments face even more challenges: boosting economic growth, jobs, climate change, etc. unfortunately the classic reform approaches have shown their limits and social tensions worsen the situation.

Himilcon supports governments in identifying the most urgent reforms and supports them in their implementation while taking into account dialogue and social peace with innovative methods and means adapted to the situation. Himilcon operates freely in the interests of its principals without being under the influence of doctrines, ideologies or political and economic pressures. Only the interests of our customers influence us.

Himilcon is involved in various public reform services. The most important:

Employability and economic development are at the heart of reform debates in all countries. Creating new markets, finding new partners, forging new alliances, investing, restructuring, reforming ... this is the daily life of political debates everywhere. But each country has its advantages, its constraints, its vision which calls for specific and above all sustainable solutions.

• Strong institutions pave the way for reforms
• Transparent and efficient public administration builds trust and social dialogue
• Boost the economy through targeted investments
• Employment partnerships and promotion of small and medium enterprises, the largest employer especially in developing countries
• Promoting Employment in Rural Regions
• Employment of Young Women through Applied Gender Diversity Management
• Competitive enterprises and better starting opportunities for more jobs and higher income
• Strengthen and promote trade with historical partners by promoting neighborhood policies.
• Promoting sustainable tourism
• Promoting social and solidarity economy
• ...

The climate change underway since the Industrial Revolution results from a modification of the composition of the Earth's atmosphere by greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activities.

Regaining a land "in full health" for next generation, requires decades but above all rethinking our way of life and our economic policies. We must focus on:

• Put the environment and climate change at the center of economic policies
• Identify the potential for economic growth and employability that the green economy brings.
• Implementing climate targets
• Good governance in climate adaptation
• Increasing energy efficiency
• Towards climate-friendly transport technologies and measures
• Developing the solar energy market
• Promoting employment through renewable energy and energy efficiency
• Strengthening education and training for the development of the renewable energy market
• Reducing greenhouse gases
• Decarburizing the building sector
• ...

Public service reforms, economic recovery, employability etc ... is no longer the exclusive responsibility of governments. The multiplication of stakeholders such as local authorities, civil society, etc ... makes governance and democracy essential to any lasting change:

• Building or rebuilding confidence in democracy
• Preventing and fighting corruption
• Promoting Transparency and Open Gov
• Promoting local authorities and decentralization
• Supporting regional development
• Supporting municipal development
• Digital municipalities: transparent, citizen-oriented and efficient
• City-to-City cooperation
• Strengthening regional development
• Strengthening municipal structures
• ...

According to World Bank estimates in 2019, more than 44% of the world's population is rural. Traditionally, the countryside is more birth-prone than the cities. Children, less educated, stay longer in the family, for which they work very early. The family being a unit of production, the more it is numerous, the more it produces. In addition, the medical revolution of vaccines and antibiotics has made it possible, even in the most remote countryside, to reduce mortality. As the birth rate remains stable, the population is therefore increasing sharply.

These populations have needs identical to urban populations: education, employment, health, infrastructure, and an equitable distribution of wealth.

• Improving food security by protecting and regenerating degraded farmland
• Managing water resources and raising awareness
• Promoting democracy through sustainable resource use
• Innovation centers for the agriculture and food sector
• Regional cooperation in the water sector
• Promoting smallholders in rural regions
• Improving access to care and specialty medicine
• Reduce early school leaving
• ...

Exceptional situations require exceptional approaches. Among these commonly recognized and recommended approaches are reforms through digital transformation and innovation.

«As the cost of data collection, storage and processing continues to decline dramatically and computing power increases, social and economic activities are increasingly migrating to the Internet. Technologies, smart applications and other innovations in the digital economy can improve services and help address policy challenges in a wide range of areas, including health, agriculture, public governance, tax, transport, education, and the environment, among others. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute not just to innovation in products, but also to innovation in processes and organizational arrangements »

« The ongoing digitalization of our economies and societies will only expand and deepen. Digitalization does not only contribute to productivity and efficiency, but also to broader socio-economic development. » This is what we can read from the G20 report Key Issues for Digital Transformation in the G20.

The key policy recommendations are:

• Call for national digital strategies to close the access and usage gaps and ensure that the Internet is for all.
• Boost investment in digital infrastructures and their key enablers
• Improve framework policies to foster the financing of digital infrastructures (including data) and innovative new business models
• Encourage the development of standards and standards-based interoperability to support IoT and Industries 4.0
• Ensure competition in ICT sector and across the economy
• Call for national privacy and security risk management strategies and improve interoperability among frameworks
• Craft more effective strategies that enable all people to adapt to and excel in the digital economy
• Support SMEs in reaping the benefits of digitalization and addressing the challenges
• Promote consumer protection in the digital era
• Adapt legal frameworks to the realities of an increasingly digital and data-driven global economy and improve measurement.

With a team of highly experienced consultants, you can trust on Himilcon.