Helping governments simplify + automate administrative procedures.
Helping entrepreneurs access services to start and grow.
Global Enterprise Registration (GER) helps governments simplify and automate administrative procedures impacting entrepreneurs, improving the ability of their citizens to access business services quickly – spending less time on paperwork and more time on running their business.
Simple and transparent government procedures help businesses grow in the formal economy, creating jobs, supporting underserved communities and helping governments increase revenue and build sustainable economies. Key to our approach is building the capacity of government staff to see procedures from the entrepreneur's perspective, simplify them and place them online.
GER, an initiative led by the Global Entrepreneurship Network and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), delivers five services by request from national, provincial and municipal authorities:
- Online Single Windows: Places the business registration process online and automates it, making the procedure more accessible to women, youth and rural populations – and faster for all entrepreneurs. This solution results in more companies becoming registered and lowers costs for governments.
- Step-By-Step Information Portals: Makes complex administrative procedures understandable to entrepreneurs while also making it easier for governments to review and simplify processes, cutting red tape and costs for users.
- Digital Residency for Foreign Investors: Helps governments promote foreign investment by allowing investors to register companies from abroad.
- Online Fiscal Services: Provides businesses with online tax calculation and payment services. Tax history helps identify which companies qualify for payments or subsidies.
- Digital Government Documents: Allows governments to issue verifiable documents in a digital format, that can be securely stored by business owners on a mobile phone and protected by biometric technology.
The Global Entrepreneurship Network operates programs, like GER, that make it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a company. GEN divides its programs into four distinct categories: those that celebrate entrepreneurs and inspire others to follow in their footsteps; those intended to better understand the underlying conditions that best enable entrepreneurs to thrive; those that support entrepreneurs through proven policy and programmatic interventions; and those that connect entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders and community leaders to strengthen local ecosystems around the world.
