Implementation of the 10th EDF Regional Provate Sector Programme

ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS AND PROMOTING INNOVATION

the region that this intervention was executed.

In July 2014, the Agency supported the participation of 11 IPA representatives in a regional workshop on Fostering Green FDI Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogota, Colombia. Caribbean Export facilitated the mission with the aim of increasing awarenessof regional and international stakeholders on the role that Agency, Caribbean IPAs, and CAIPA play in the attraction of FDI projects to the Caribbean. The delegation met with brand managers in Colombia to discuss their image building campaigns. The Caribbean IPA representatives also had an opportunity to engage with workshop participants to share the initiativesbeingundertaken topromote green FDI within their territories. IPA professionals also received training on the good practices in the design and implementation of a NIPS. The two- day training, which built on a series of activities by Caribbean Export to enhance the capacity of regional IPA professionals, was delivered with the aim of providing guidance to those countries that are in the process of designing, and to support those who were at the stage of implementing said Strategy. Overall, 14 IPAs received training, in addition to using the opportunity to network with regional and international counterparts.

workshop in Saint Lucia, aimed at assisting CAIPA members in the development of a Reinvestment Strategy, which essentially targets investments from existing investors, and creates linkages in the domestic economy between investors and local suppliers. The workshop formed a part of initiatives being undertaken with support from IDB under a Regional Public Goods Programme entitled “Support for FDI in the Caribbean”. The objective of this project was to assist regional IPAs in the positioning of the Caribbean as a location for FDI and present the region as a single investment destination. Outcomes of this workshop included the development of strategies within regional IPAs to address the needs of existing investors, as well as the provision of assistance in the expansion plans across the Caribbean. Twenty-two (22) IPA professionals participated in the training session.

In June 2015, Caribbean Export in collaboration with CAIPA, hosted a

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