BUSAC
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BUSAC is the acronym for the "Business Sector Advocacy Challenge Fund".
BUSAC aims to make an impact by enabling the private sector, including business membership organisations, trades unions and media, to influence public policy formulation by undertaking appropriate research, developing evidence based policy positions and advocating those positions to government and elsewhere.
BUSAC was originally launched by DANIDA as part of the broader Business Sector Programme Support but now attracts support from DFID (which is pooling its support through an arrangement with DANIDA) and USAID (which is willing to support export related advocacy projects).
The fund management has been contracted by DANIDA to COWI who have appointed Dr. Dale Rachmeler as the project manager. He is assisted by a team recruited locally.
BUSAC can provide grants of up to 90 per cent of the cost of Advocacy Actions approved by BUSAC.
[edit] Impact
From BUSAC's launch in late 2004 until the end of 2007, it had managed 10 rounds of applications and agreed to fund 331 projects. Of those, 66 had been completed by 1 November 2007. Another 30 or so were scheduled to conclude by the end of December 2007. An initial survey in May 2007 (covering a 10% sample of 214 projects, and examining 23 projects in detail) estimated that 80% of all projects will have some level of impact: 30% with impact already achieved, 25% with probable impact, another 25% with possible impact. As few as 18% will have no impact at all. BUSAC has written up a number of success stories which can be found on their web site.
