Advisory Services, Technical Support, and Workshops

IISD's advisory services, technical support, and in-person workshops help emerging and developing economies navigate the legal and policy instruments governing international investment—including investment treaties, national investment laws, and investor-state contracts—and reform them in line with the government's development priorities and core sustainable development challenges.

We support the reform of investment laws and policies in coherence with each other, regional benchmarks (such as the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Investment Protocol), and international agreements (such as the Paris Agreement on climate change or the Global Minimum Tax).

To guide this work, see our reform coherence tool kits, developed at the 2023 Investment Policy Forum in Panama and the 2024 Investment Policy Forum in Manila, respectively.

To learn more about IISD advisory services, please view our brochure in English and French, and please don't hesitate to reach out to our team at [email protected].

Our Beneficiaries to Date

Governments 

Our core expert team is a diverse, cross-disciplinary team of lawyers, economists, and sectoral policy experts in agriculture, mining, and infrastructure. They are based in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, and are also multilingual, providing support in Chinese, English, French, German, and Spanish, among other languages.