Inline with UNCTAD's Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development(IPFSD), the programme will help policy makers and negotiators to deepen theirunderstanding and analysis of the key issues in IIAs by offering concreteoptions for the design and negotiation of IIAs that effectively promotesustainable development and inclusive growth.
Thecourse will highlight the importance of ensuring policy coherence betweennational development policies and IIAs through designing clear and explicitclauses, balancing investors' rights and obligations (including throughcorporate social responsibility principles), and safeguarding policy space forother public policies (e.g. climate change, labour, health).
Onesegment of the course will address investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS),and policies to prevent and manage ISDS.
Finally,the course will address topics of special interests to the countries in theregion such as the investment competence of the European Union (EU) after theLisbon Treaty, the compatibility of EU member States IIAs with EU law, treatyexpiration, and the emergence of regional IIAs, such as the EURASEC.
