Supporting Materials

Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets (The World Bank, 2019)

An efficient and effective quality and standards ecosystem—also referred to as quality infrastructure (QI)—is an essential ingredient for competitiveness, access to new markets, productivity improvement, innovation of new products, and environmental protection, as well as health and safety of populations. In short, QI is not only key to a country’s growth, but also essential in creating a safer, cleaner, and more equitable and well-integrated world.

The World Bank Group recognises the importance of QI as an ecosystem and has produced a comprehensive QI diagnostics and reform guide with input from ILAC and IAF. The guide provides help to countries to develop or strengthen their own quality and standards ecosystems—to diagnose, build, and reform the complex elements of an effective, modern QI. It also references the UK study into the impact of accreditation.

The guide can be downloaded from the World Bank website.