Investment Policy Forum Manila Tool Kit
A practical tool to enhance horizontal coherence across policy areas
Investment governance intersects with international agreements and sectoral policies including on mining, agriculture, and public health. This tool kit helps governments to map and navigate such international commitments for more coherent investment policy-making, building on insights from the 2024 Investment Policy Forum (IPF) in the Philippines.
Key Messages
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Investment governance is increasingly complex. Policy-makers must navigate between investment-specific and sectoral policies, including on mining, agriculture, environment, labor, and public health.
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The tool kit supports investment policy-makers in mapping their country's international agreements and commitments and navigating their intersections with investment instruments.
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Achieving sustainable development requires aligning investment legal instruments—investment treaties, national investment laws, and investment contracts—with states' international commitments.
Policy-makers must navigate an increasingly complex investment governance landscape. Investment instruments intersect with a wide range of international commitments and sectoral policies, such as mining and agriculture, and broader areas, including environmental, labor, and public health regulations. This can lead to regulatory inconsistencies and litigation risks.
Aligning investment treaties, national investment laws, and investment contracts with states’ international commitments across policy areas is critical to achieving sustainable development.
This tool kit assists governments’ internal coordination to improve coherence between investment instruments and other policy areas impacting investment. It is intended to be adaptable—in line with different domestic contexts and priorities—and builds on inputs received from participants at the 2024 edition of IISD's Investment Policy Forum (IPF) in the Philippines as well as foundational work at previous editions of the IPF.
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