2026 Investment Policy Forum
The 17th edition of IISD's Investment Policy Forum will take place from September 16 to 18, 2026, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This unique event will bring together investment policy-makers and negotiators from developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to discuss the most pressing issues in investment governance today—and how to solve them.
IISD's Investment Policy Forum (IPF) is the world's only summit of investment negotiators and policy-makers exclusively from developing countries.
The 17th edition of the IPF will take place from September 16 to 18, 2026, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, bringing together investment policy-makers and negotiators from countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as representatives from international institutions and regional bodies.
Since 2007, the IPF has provided a unique space to share challenges, solutions, and ideas across countries and continents, with the common objective of making international investment governance fairer, more resilient, and greener.
Against the backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, economic pressures, and climate urgency, the 2026 IPF will focus on the most pressing issues shaping investment governance today, with panels and workshops designed to advance efforts to build more sustainable investment frameworks.
This year's IPF will continue the event's multi-year theme of coherence in investment policy-making, focusing on coherence between international, regional, and national investment policies.
We will also follow up on how the two practical tool kits we developed at recent editions—the 2023 Panama Tool Kit, supporting coherence between the domestic institutions involved in investment policy, and the 2024 Manila Tool Kit, supporting coherence between investment policies and other international agreements—have helped these efforts.
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