The ACP Business Climate Facility (BizClim) is an EU funded initiative under the Cotonou Agreement. The Facility is essentially about ‘improving legislation, institutional set up and financial measures (the rules of the game) relating to the enabling environment of the private sector in ACP countries or regions and to the reform of SOEs - and to do so by focusing on possible support to ACP governments or regional institutions’.

The Facility undertakes, whenever justified, upstream analyses of the enabling environment for private sector development in ACP states or regions, as well as key studies on investment prospects.

The Facility is expected to have a think-tank role in pertinent areas such as public private partnerships, SOE reforms and privatisation, as well as poverty reduction. ACP Governments might in selected cases be supported in the follow-up of the recommendations of studies that are carried out.