The Regional Investment Programme

Component 1: Investor surveys: In this first component, structures are set up to implement, monitor and sustain the programme; sensitisation campaigns are carried out to bring it to the attention of potential stakeholders; and major surveys of domestic and foreign investors are conducted to provide data for the platform.  

Component 2: Development of the Investment Monitoring Platform where UNIDO will act as custodian of the platform, using its own resources, and will ensure that the central database is fully exploited while the confidentiality of individual survey respondents is protected. The Microsoft Corporation has partnered with UNIDO to construct the platform at its own cost.

Figure 1: The network of stakeholder groups using the Investment Monitoring Platform.

Component 3: Capacity building of national and regional institutions. To ensure that IPAs and other intermediary organisations can make the most effective use of the platform, this component will build this capacity, primarily in IPAs but also in ministries, sectoral agencies, trade organizations, regional economic communities, and private sector organizations. Three functions will be targeted: (a) carrying out research, (b) designing investment promotion strategies, and (c) delivering services to investors, in particular aftercare services (see Figure 2).  

Component 4: UNIDO’s Network of Subcontracting and Partnership Exchanges (SPXs) will be expanded and integrated into the Investment Monitoring Platform. With the platform’s supplier benchmarking methodology, SPXs will be able to conduct a gap analysis of supplier capacities in relation to buyer requirements and will then assist them in formulating their investment proposals, will mobilise financing and will identify the technology partners they need to upgrade to meet these buyer requirements.