Depending upon the requirements of client governments, ASIT provides advisory services on:

1. investment policies;
2. enabling legal and regulatory frameworks for investment; and
3. investment promotion strategies.

Advisory services to officials of investment promotion agencies and other government institutions dealing with FDI promotion can include how to:

1. identify and target investors so that national development objectives are met;
2. rationalize investment promotion activities; and
3. attract and facilitate new investment, as well as retain and expand existing investments.

Recent examples of areas in which ASIT is providing investment advisory services are:

1. Drafting or Providing Comments on Investment Legislation
2. Benchmarking of Administrative Processes to Assess Competitiveness in Attracting FDI
3. Studies to Assess whether a Sector Has the Potential to Attract FDI
4. Assistance in Elaborating National and Regional Investment Promotion Strategies
5. Assistance in Elaborating Sectoral Investment Promotion Strategies
6. Institutional Audits of Investment Promotion Agencies
7. Advice on Structuring One-Stop Shop Investor Service Facilities
8. The Investment Gateway

The technical assistance programme of ASIT is demand-driven. Following a request for technical assistance, ASIT will normally elaborate a project document and attempt to mobilize resources for project activities. A number of recent projects have been organized as follow-ups to recommendations made in UNCTADīs Investment Policy Reviews.

Advisory services and training are also offered under ASITīs programme on Good Governance in Investment Promotion.