18 June 2025
Brussels
The ICR Facility started in September 2019, as a multi-partner project to support the
improvement of policies that drive conducive business and investment climate in Africa,
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. After 5 years of successful implementation, the ICR
Facility in its current shape will conclude in August 2025, before a follow-up project covering
Global Gateway corridors and flagships kicks off by the end of 2025 for another 4 years.
Before ending this chapter, the ICR Facility team is inviting donors, partners and peers to join
their closing event. It will be the occasion to reflect on successes and share the lessons
learned from our one-team approach of co-implementation that has supported the
advancement of gender-sensitive business environment reforms across Africa, the Caribbean
and the Pacific.
How has the ICR Facility grown from a coordinated multi-partner project to a fully
integrated team based on inter-agency collaboration ? How does that translate into
day-to-day processes and activities ? And how can these good practices be replicated
in the upcoming ICR Global Gateway Facility and other Team Europe Initiatives ?
The event is aimed at sharing with donors, international cooperation agencies and
development practitioners, how the ICR Facility team and management unit adapted over the
course of 5 years, from COVID-19 in 2020 to becoming a gender-transformative project in
2022, to evolve from a coordination-based to a collaboration-based facility.
The event will include panel discussions, presentations and interactive sessions featuring the
ICR Facility’s donors, implementing agencies, team members, partners that benefitted from
technical assistance, as well as diplomatic representations that have been relays and support
of the ICR Facility’s interventions. The topics covered will span from translating a Multi-Partner
Contribution Agreement (MPCA) into a functioning facility structure, to materialising
collaboration in demand-based technical assistance in ACP countries piloted from Brussels.
The dynamic formats of the sessions will allow for exchanges between the speakers and the
audience. Times will also be reserved for informal exchanges and networking.