WAIPA, EIF and IsDB announce the launch of a new program to enhance investment promotion capabilities in francophone least developed [...]
WAIPA Executive Director, a.i. Mr. Ismail Ersahin participated at the High-Level Regional Roundtable to discuss the importance of Investment Facilitation [...]
Launch of The World Investment for Development Alliance (WIDA) during World Economic Forum at Davos 2022 The launch of WIDA [...]
WAIPA joined forces with the ILO to launch the survey report on “The contribution of IPAs to achieving SDG 8”. [...]
The WAIPA Permanent Secretariat was on a 5-days visit to India, where they have kickstarted the first chapter of the WAIPA [...]
WAIPA was delighted to be part of the Annual Investment Meeting Congress, which took place last week in Dubai, [...]
The WAIPA Steering Committee meeting was held this week on the sidelines of the Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai. The hybrid meeting [...]
The WAIPA "Integrating innovative approaches in investment promotion" pre-conference workshop was held on the day before the official opening of [...]
The first session of the FDI Excellence Series 2022 edition was the first WAIPA event during this week and was [...]
“Investment Aftercare Explained. A Guide for FDI Practitioners and Policymakers on How to Grow and Retain Investors,” the first book to systematically [...]
On 4 March 2022, the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) and its Consultative Committee member, the International [...]
This is to announce that the deadline to apply for the WAIPA vacant positions for the regional directorship of [...]
Call for Consultancy Services *The deadline for the call of consultancy was postponed to 31 March 2022. Building on [...]
After the last year's first WAIPA – EIF capacity building project for least developed countries (LDCs), we are announcing [...]
Ilker Ayci, former President of Turkish Prime Ministry Investment Support and Promotion Agency, was elected President of [...]
INDI, which was founded on May 30, 1968, and has a 53-year history, has played a critical role in [...]
Dear North America /respectively South Asia/ WAIPA Members, We would like to inform you that the positions for the [...]
It is our great pleasure to announce and kindly invite you to take a look at the agenda of [...]
Jeddah / Geneva, 9 December 2021 - The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) in partnership with the [...]
The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) as the umbrella organization that supports member Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) [...]
On behalf of World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), please accept our deepest sympathies on the [...]
On October 21, 2021, the World Bank Group and World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) announced the winners [...]
According to the WAIPA Statutes, today on the 20th September 2021, 30 days prior to the meeting we are [...]
WAIPA is pleased to announce the candidacies for a new WAIPA Steering Committee, to be elected for the 2021-2023 [...]
We have the pleasure to officially inform you that the 25th WAIPA World Investment Conference and the General Assembly [...]
The UNCTAD secretariat has announced that the 7th World Investment Forum will be held virtually from 18 to 22 [...]
The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) has finalized the first part of the project co-funded by EIF [...]
Policy reforms need to address low financial returns which hamper the contribution of FDI to sustainable development. To many [...]
Dear members, We would like to inform you that a new Steering Committee will be elected this autumn during [...]
WAIPA CEO Bostjan Skalar participated today in Madrid at the event “Enabling Frameworks For Tourism Investments During COVID-19” organized [...]
IPAs have their work cut out for them as they grapple with huge upheavals in the investment landscape. Bostjan [...]
Investment promotion agencies (IPAs) around the world are demonstrating their criticality as we begin the recovery from COVID-19. There [...]
The Executive Director of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), Bostjan Skalar and the Secretary-General, D. Zurab [...]
Today our first workshop within the EIF WAIPA co-funded project for LDCs on “Capacity Building for EIF countries on [...]
According to the WAIPA Statutes, today on the 6th November 2020, 30 days prior to the meeting we announce [...]
With the growing importance of foreign direct investments (FDI) for accelerating development, to eradicate unemployment and increase exports, many [...]
On 29 October 2020, WAIPA in partnership with Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the World Bank Group (WBG) organized webinar titled “The Global [...]
Advances in production technology and a trend towards shorter supply chains make a return to “business as usual” highly unlikely. [...]
The 3rd Virtual Capacity Building Workshop on Investment Facilitation for Development was organized on 23rd September by German Development Institute [...]
WAIPA & The World Bank Group (WBG) had a pleasure to present the details of the global survey report [...]
02.09.2020 We, Permanent Secretariat, hereby notify to WAIPA members that the following amendments to the Statutes of WAIPA will be [...]
On 21 July 2020, WAIPA organized a webinar titled "IPAs’ Role in a Post-COVID-19 World: How an Integrative Approach Can [...]
IPAs are at forefront of the COVID fight International Organizations highlight IPAs critical role in global economic recovery and growth [...]
On 15 July 2020, WAIPA in partnership with EIF organized webinar titled “COVID-19 implications on global value chains and investment opportunities [...]
On 9 July 2020, WAIPA and UNCTAD organized the online discussion on “World Investment Report 2020: International Production beyond [...]
The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) will implement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) [...]
On 22 June 2020, WAIPA in partnership with IBM-PLI organized the webinar titled "How is COVID-19 impacting the future [...]
UNCTAD: IPAs Role is fundamental for Covid-19 FDI Recovery & Future Growth On 10 June 2020, the World Association [...]
Low and middle-income countries urgently need affordable personal protective equipment, diagnostics, treatments and vaccines to ward off even bigger [...]
On 19 May 2020 WAIPA and Huawei jointly organized an online panel discussion titled “Optimize investment conditions to accelerate [...]
The pandemic is causing massive disruptions to flows of foreign direct investments. Developing countries are likely to be hit [...]
It is with our pleasure to share with you our newly launched paper titled "The impact of COVID-19 from [...]
Supporting digital competitiveness can help economies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign direct investment in the digital economy can [...]
2018 was a historically significant year for Asia and the Pacific: for the first time, it became both the [...]
Last month our colleagues from the World Bank Group (WBG) published a technical note on Strengthening Service Delivery of [...]
Currently, the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) is the main concern across the globe. It shaped the way we perform our [...]
Dear WAIPA Members, I hope that you, your families and your colleagues are safe and well. Today, the newly elected [...]
Dear colleagues, due to growing concerns around the spread of the COVID-19 the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) [...]
In 2015, leaders of the world made a collosal promise to eradicate poverty, to protect the planet and to [...]
To whom it may concern, WAIPA and the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) joined forces in a co-funded project, to develop [...]
WAIPA President Fahad Al Gergawi, Executive Director Bostjan Skalar, Deputy Executive Director Ismail Ersahin held a number of meetings in [...]
Aim is to improve the capacities and skills of Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) and EIF National Implementation Units (NIUs), as [...]
The Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Investment Office, the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the [...]
The last FDI Excellence Series training course in 2019 was held from 3-4 December 2019 in Rome, Italy and hosted [...]
Dear WAIPA Members, We would like to inform you that the positions for the regional directorship of North America [...]
WAIPA Executive Director Bostjan Skalar was invited to participate at the ICC Trade And Investment Policy Commission Meeting which was [...]
On 13 – 15 November 2019 the FEMOZA (The World Free and Special Economic Zones Federation) organized in cooperation with [...]
WAIPA was pleased to join as partner at the second ACP PSD regional meeting this year devoted to the West [...]
WAIPA and its long-term strategic partner, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are pleased to inform WAIPA members about [...]
Our distinct pleasure to announce and welcome new Steering Committee on board. General Assembly at WAIPA's World Investment Conference [...]
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman [...]
UNCTAD in cooperation with the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation and the Islamic Development Bank organized a regional workshop for [...]
WAIPA Executive Director Bostjan Skalar participated in a series of meetings in China. He was invited as a speaker to [...]
Under the title "(Re)sources of (In)stability", the 14th Bled Strategic Forum, took place in Ljubljana/Bled, Slovenia, and was dedicated to [...]
According to WAIPA Statutes, today on 6 September 2019, 30 days prior to General Assembly we announce the agenda [...]
According to Statutes, WAIPA is pleased to announce the candidacies for a new WAIPA Steering [...]
According to the most recent UNCTAD's World Investment Report issued in June of 2019, estimated global FDI flows were [...]
Dubai, UAE, 5 – 6 April 2019: The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) in cooperation with Andreas Dressler [...]
Berlin, 19 March 2019 – WAIPA CEO Bostjan Skalar took part at the high-level roundtable on Investment Facilitation for Sustainable [...]
Istanbul, Turkey, 19-20 February 2019 – The World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) organized its first training course on [...]
Dear members, We would like to inform you that a new Steering Committee will be elected this autumn during the [...]
Dear Members, WAIPA and its long-term strategic partner, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are pleased to inform WAIPA members about the [...]
On 23 January 2019 the Hamdan Centre for the Future of Investment (HCFI) and the World Association of Investment [...]
Dear Members, colleagues and partners, It is our pleasure to inform you that the Overview of Investment Promotion: Report [...]
WAIPA is delighted to announce that the 24th WAIPA World Investment Conference, will take place in Warsaw, Poland in mid-October 2019. [...]
Dear Members, hereby it is our pleasure to publish the meeting minutes of the WAIPA General Assembly from 8 [...]
We would like to inform that member agencies are encouraged to send their candidacies for hosting the 24thWAIPA World Investment Conference (WAIPA [...]
After the General Assembly in Dubai on November 27, 2017 in which WAIPA Steering Committee elections took place, the regional [...]
Dear members, We announce that the statutory amendments which were proposed by members were approved by a majority vote of the members [...]
The WAIPA General Assembly, which was convened on the November 27th, 2017 the first day of the 22nd WAIPA World Investment [...]
According to WAIPA Statutes, today on October 27th 2017, 30 days prior to General Assembly we announce the agenda of [...]
Today on August 25th, 2017, 90 days prior to General Assembly we announce that 12 WAIPA members proposed following statutory [...]
It fills us with pride to announce our newest corporate video. Here is WAIPA’s objectives and partners in the cause [...]
