Effective investment facilitation and sustainable development

This course explores how IPAs can maximize the positive impact of FDI for Sustainable Development, using a range of tools and resources:

• Investment facilitation for development

• Tools for attracting sustainable and quality FDI

• Responsible business conduct as an entry point for dialogue with foreign investors, based on the provisions of the ILO MNE Declaration, a key international standard used by multinational enterprises.

• Strategies for fostering linkages between FDI and local business

• Effective aftercare for advancing sustainable development

• Strategic planning for an integrated approach

OBJECTIVES

Participants learn how IPAs are improving their impact and shaping national development agendas in a wide range of areas, including:

• How to enhance alignment of FDI with national development priorities

• How to develop SDG projects

• How to engage with investors on responsible business conduct to increase development impacts

• How to facilitate linkages with local businesses

• How to measure qualitative and quantitative impact of your IPA through definition of KPIs for decent work and sustainable development

• Good practices from IPAs on investment facilitation for development

CONTENT

Participants will be equipped to advise their IPAs on specific ways to attract investment

which will contribute more effectively to the SDGs, such as:

• Apply development frameworks for decent work in investment facilitation

• Create an enabling environment to ensure that FDI leads to positive social and economic outcomes

• Support IPAs to enhance development impacts of FDI.

As part of their participation, participants will develop a strategy for their institution to

integrate and align the SDGs into promotion, facilitation, after care, planning, monitoring, and evaluation. Other participants will have a better understanding of how to support IPAs to enhance development impacts of FDI.