CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY ARTICLE 127 Creation of an Enabling Environment for the Private Sector and the Civil Society 1. The Partner States agree to provide an enabling environment for the private sector and the civil society to take full advantage of the Community. To this end, the Partner States undertake to formulate a strategy for the development of the private sector and to: 2. to: (a) promote a continuous dialogue with the private sector and civil society at the national level and at that of the Community to help create an improved business environment for the implementation of agreed decisions in all economic sectors; and (b) provide opportunities for entrepreneurs to participate actively in improving the policies and activities of the institutions of the Community that affect them so as to increase their confidence in policy reforms and raise the productivity and lower the costs of the entrepreneurs. For purposes of paragraph 1 of this Article, the Partner States undertake (a) improve the business environment through the promotion of conducive investment codes, the protection of property rights and other rights and the proper regulation of the private sector; (b) stimulate market development through infrastructural linkages and the removal of barriers and constraints to market development and production; (c) regularly provide up-to-date commercial intelligence to speed up market response through co-operation among the chambers of commerce and industry and other similar organisations of the Partner States; (d) facilitate and support the exchange of experience and the pooling of resources through, inter alia, cross-border investments; 102