Progress has also been recorded in the plan of action on investment promotion activities

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

(c) Mobilization of domestic and foreign direct investment in Africa through investment and technology promotion activities and cooperation with other United Nations agencies and financial institutions

Ongoing activities include the development of standards and recommendations in sustainable transport, promotion of energy efficient technology and energy efficient investment projects and promotion of sustainable forest management.

Investment promotion The Advisory Service on Investment and Training (ASIT)

In terms of investment promotion strategies, investment promotion agencies (IPAs) are mainly focused on investors based in developed countries.

(b) Private Investment Promotion Office (OPIP)

Support has continued to the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), which includes 46 investment promotion agencies from Africa as members.

Service Module 2 Investment and technology promotion

Examples of the latter could include provisions aimed at enterprise development, OFDI promotion programmes and outbound investment missions in conjunction with investment promotion authorities.

Special attention will be given also to the expansion of funding from host countries for the ITPO network and the overall investment and technology promotion activities.

It also stressed its interest in the work on investor State dispute settlement and the activities of WAIPA and UNCTAD in the area of investment promotion.

In particular, many LDCs had recently established investment promotion agencies and were entering into bilateral, regional and interregional agreements for the protection and promotion of investment.

The principal outputs of the investment promotion component comprise

It was also reported that UNCTAD had carried out an assessment of the investment promotion capacity of the national investment promotion agency (Agence Nationale de Développement de l'Investissement).

The Asian Group also stressed its interest in the work on investor State dispute settlement and the activities of WAIPA and UNCTAD in the area of investment promotion.

Develop human resource skills in the field of investment promotion

Ms. Ruth Nyakotey, Deputy Chief Executive, Investment Promotion Center, Ghana

Cho JW (2003). Foreign direct investment determinants Trends in flows and promotion policies. In Investment Promotion and Enterprise Development Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific 1. New York United Nations.

Programme Component D.4 Promotion of Domestic Investment, FDI and Alliances

Direct promotion of partnerships that could lead to FDI through a number of UNIDO networks and channels including the Investment and Technology Promotion Offices (ITPOs), the Asia Africa Investment and Technology Promotion Centre (AAITPC) established some five years ago in the context of South South cooperation, the web based UNIDO Exchange platform, and a variety of investment and technology promotion forums

Activities undertaken to date in the field of investment promotion within the context of ongoing integrated programmes have included assistance to eight national IPAs in upgrading their capacities through training and establishment of new programme areas the establishment of one new IPA and the formulation and international promotion of 80 investment projects as joint venture opportunities.

The work of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) was important in assisting developing countries in the definition of their investment promotion policies and in the creation of related agencies.

The work of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) was important in assisting developing countries in the definition of their investment promotion policies and in the creation of related agencies.

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In addition, efforts need to be directed towards entrepreneurship and investment promotion.

Mr. Yu Hua, Deputy Director General, China Investment Promotion Agency, Beijing, China

In Djibouti, the installation of the Investment Gateway, which is an Internet based interactive platform for investment promotion, is under way.

Priorities for Department of International Protection promotion activities

Field work usually combines promotion and protection activities.

Italy had always attached great importance to UNIDO investment promotion and technology transfer.

Global forum activities, including research to generate new data and analyses through surveys and pilot activities, tools such as the Computer Model for Feasibility Analysis and Reporting (COMFAR) and the investment project profile, and the establishment administration of networks and other platforms such as the Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) Network, ITPOs, and the Subcontracting and Partnership Exchange (SPX).

The Investment Policy Review of Benin was presented on 2 November 2004 at the Expert Meeting on Good Governance in Investment Promotion.

The Review action plan recommended that action be taken to review and update the current investment legislation, to reform land access, to strengthen the local investment promotion agency, to promote good governance and to devise proactive policies dedicated to the promotion of national and regional investment opportunities.

It also contributed to the Investment and Technology Promotion Office in Seoul to enable it to promote direct foreign investment and technology diffusion.

UNIDO's interventions will be oriented towards activities related to capacity building for production and export, including investment and technology promotion, business partnership programmes, SME export consortia, product innovation and diversification for enhanced market access.

This approach is particularly visible and meaningful in the case of country specific operations, where UNCTAD expertise is customized by the recipients themselves (as in activities regarding investment promotion, trade negotiations or trade facilitation).

(iii) promoting regional cooperation in investment promotion and enterprise development, including public private partnerships in infrastructure development and the promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility

This could be achieved through UNCTAD's existing intergovernmental forum and by preparing short investment policy briefs aimed at policy makers and investment promotion agencies.

With regard to investment promotion, Egypt has adopted UNCTAD's recommendation that GAFI be transformed from a control authority into an investment promoter and facilitator.

It recommends that the secretariat further strengthen its programme on Good Governance in Investment Promotion (GGIP) and extend its assistance to more interested developing countries, in particular LDCs, in implementing measures to improve good governance in investment promotion.

Other activities carried out in Ethiopia included the organization of a national workshop in Addis Ababa in 2002 to discuss ways of improving governance in investment promotion, the development of a Client Charter for the Ethiopian Investment Commission in 2003 and training of the Commission's staff in customer services.

UNIFEM investment in these activities amounted to 100,000 for 2004.

A network of independent investment promotion units had been created in Mediterranean countries with Italian support.

These instruments include tax exemption on income remitted into the country by Malaysian companies investing overseas, the provision of investment guarantees and investment promotion missions abroad.