IACE

Founded in 1984, the IACE is an economic think tank, working to promote the private sector. The January 14 revolution enabled the IACE to fully play its role as a think tank, focusing on advocacy, adopting it as its main mission.

As an economic think tank, the IACE carries out work to produce and promote innovative ideas, the ambition of which is to work towards a better business environment, the focus of economic development. To do this, the IACE develops proposals and recommendations by mobilizing a network of multidisciplinary experts. These are debated through its publications and various forms of events.

A laboratory of ideas where a variety of players get involved: business leaders, experts, researchers, politicians, the IACE creates bridges of understanding between the public and private sectors.

In a context of democratic consolidation where the government faces serious problems with its capacity to govern, the IACE strives to broaden the debate on public policies and foster the growth of the private sector; to fulfill mainly a mission of scouting, by providing an analysis on current issues, by proposing concrete avenues for improvement and by revealing in a prospective manner the challenges to be taken up by the country.

The IACE finds its raison d’être in the conviction that the private sector, through the strength and dynamics of its businesses, is the engine of economic and social progress. At a time when we are rethinking the factors of development, it is vital and urgent to place the company at the heart of our concerns.

To carry out its studies and develop its proposals, the IACE mobilizes a vast network of experts, academics, economists, political scientists, business leaders and senior civil servants. The dissemination of his ideas is based on the regular publication of reports, notes, indices and the publication of books.

Resolutely turned towards the international and member of the International Network of Economic Think Tanks, the IACE systematically integrates in its reflection the analysis of foreign models likely to inspire Tunisian public policies.

One of the three main drivers of the IACE concerns the high-level debates, the media impact of which reflects their magnitude. The IACE is also a space for exchange and dialogue resulting in the organization of international events bringing together political personalities, business leaders, experts, representatives of international organizations, in order to exchange and stimulate reflection on matters of collective interest.

The IACE also offers sustained, high-level training programs that contribute to spreading a culture and common understanding of the company, making it possible to apprehend a complex reality due to its movement. The training courses are designed in total adequacy with the challenges governing the business environment.

Among the works of the IACE are the surveys developed to map entrepreneurs in Tunisia, through the APS survey of 2,000 individuals from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, and NES on the entrepreneurial ecosystem with 36 experts. Likewise, he represented the World Economic Forum in the survey for the Global Competitiveness Report.

With the objective of improving the business environment, the IACE also worked in partnership with the IFC on the simplification of administrative procedures. This made it possible to list all the procedures to which the private sector has recourse and which hinder it.

Similarly, one of the major publications of the IACE was the White Paper on the political economy of reforms, which has become a reference, in particular, for political decision-makers as regards the identification of priorities in the undertaking of reforms. In addition, the IACE published the Treatise on Enterprise , on the occasion of Enterprise Days 2015. It thus promotes the importance of public-private dialogue for a better business environment. Public Policy Evaluationis also a work through which the IACE was able to promote the idea of ​​the importance of an independent institution that would ensure the evaluation of public policies and their correspondence with the announced strategy. The IACE also published a book on the imperative of digital transformation on the occasion of the 2016 business days and finally on decentralization, its dynamism and the opportunities it triggers for the Tunisian company, within the framework company days 2017.

Thus, through its publications and works, the IACE has enabled the evaluation of regulations, procedures, laws that would hinder the proper functioning of the private sector, has established good practices through the development of guides and supports through advocacy efforts, economic reforms.

The mission that the IACE has assigned revolves around three main axes, which are:

CONSOLIDATION

The IACE aims to establish its notoriety as a business Think Tank through its work and its network. Thus, in order to confirm its place as such, the IACE continues in line with the initiatives that have been launched in recent years and is working on consolidating its positions to promote innovative ideas that bring about change.

DEVELOPMENT

In order to ensure more regional coverage; with its Sfax section, its four entrepreneurship and employment centers which are deployed in the regions of Kef, Kairouan, Sidi Bouzid and Gafsa, the IACE intends to expand its network and develop further by creating a Section on the Center, and subsequently, in two other regions.

ARGUMENT

Through its publications and works, the IACE contributes to the evaluation of regulations, procedures, laws that would hinder the proper functioning of the private sector. It tries to establish good practices through the development of guides and supports through advocacy efforts, economic reforms.