For sustainable development and inclusive growth in developing regions, robust and equitable investment flows are crucial. Investment Promotion Institutions (IPIs) in these areas often struggle with challenges like overwhelming mandates, poor targeting, limited budgets, low digitalization, skills gaps, and ineffective tracking of investment outcomes. UNIDO is here to change that. By harnessing its global network, UNIDO helps countries attract capital, knowledge, and technology to drive impactful investments. The UNIDO Investment Platform is designed to tackle these challenges head-on, empowering IPIs to enhance their investment promotion efforts and boost sustainable investment flows to developing regions around the world.
UNIDO Investment Platform
Promoting Responsible Investments to Enable Global Sustainable Development
Overview
Approach
Our approach combines two key strategies: generating investment intelligence and improving investment promotion to make it easier for potential investors to make decisions.
Empowering Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) to strategically address current and future challenges through enhanced knowledge, skills, and digital tools. This includes business directory development, investment monitoring, investor targeting and relationship management.
We offer a clear and reliable platform for developing and showcasing investment opportunities, with a focus on sustainable investments. Our insights help global investors understand and access opportunities in developing countries, and we facilitate targeted investor support.
UNIDO provides exclusive digital tools, capacity building, and training, while also fostering south-south and triangular knowledge exchange. This includes leveraging diplomatic networks to enhance business diplomacy and boost investment impact.
Impact
The main objective of the solution will be to foster more sustainable investment flows to developing countries globally.
SDGs:
UNIDO Priorities:
Thematic Area(s):
By completing the Investment Monitoring and Support Services (IMSS) Survey Campaign within UNIDO technical assistance, we have been able to collect first-hand data which would improve EIC's Aftercare support services, bring the Commission closer to companies and investors active in Ethiopia, and thus improve the business environment in the country. The Digital Investment Promotion System (DIPS) has been a tremendously useful tool in this process, allowing us to efficiently manage the collected data and make use of it to tailor our support services.
Dawit Adugna
Senior Aftercare Expert & IRM Team Leader, Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC)
The Digital Investment Promotion System (DIPS) Has proved to be a very useful tool for us thanks to the profiling module, which enables us to systematically profile and have a central repository of profiled investment opportunities that ZDA can draw upon to market and track progress. The Investor Relationship Management (IRM) module, which works like a support ticket management system, is equally useful, as it enables direct facilitation and aftercare support to investors, as well as digital tracking of the resolution of challenges in view of investment retention and expansion.
Banji Muleya Mayiya
Investment Support Services Specialist, Zambia Development Agency
From business directory cleaning to FDI intelligence surveys and digital tools like the DIPS, UNIDO's technical support has been instrumental in streamlining our processes here at KenInvest, allowing us to make our Aftercare support services to companies and investors more efficient and effective.
Ms. Caren Mutai
Project Analyst, Investor Service Department, Kenya Investment Authority
Technology Used
Cloud Solutions, Geospatial Analytics, Proprietary custom-built digital database & investor relationship management system, AI & Deep Learning Models
Catalytic Outlook
The solution responds to the need to invest in upstream suppliers and distribute compliance costs more evenly across the value chain. This solution aims to increase the share of global investment flows to developing countries and to boost employment.
Unique Solution Characteristics
The Investment Platform stands out with its powerful two-in-one approach: a global digital platform designed to attract investments worldwide, and a cutting-edge Digital Investment Promotion System that transforms how Investment Promotion Institutions (IPIs) operate. Together, they make investment management seamless and efficient.
- Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
- European Union (EU)
Digital Tools and Promotion:
- Investment Platform (for promotion of investments to potential investors)
- Digital Investment Promotion System (for internal IPI management, and back-end of the Investment Platform)
- COMFAR 4 software and trainings for feasibility analysis of investment projects: https://www.unido.org/comfar
Capacity-building: Capacity-building to Investment Promotion Agencies on Investment Opportunity Profiling, Investment Monitoring, and Investment Promotion
Trainings (online and in-person): Investment Project Preparation and Appraisal, Gender Lens Investing, Impact Investing, Industrial Parks Financing, Business Diplomacy, and Investment Facilitation. https://hub.unido.org/section/sustainable-supply-chains
