The IEG continues to play a major role in implementing the Investment Facilitation Action Plan (IFAP), which has continuing value as a capacity-building and planning tool for APEC’s work on investment facilitation. The IEG works on specific plans to establish a long-term framework for advancing work under IFAP and to credibly demonstrate progress achieved in IFAP implementation.

The 2011 APEC Non-Binding Investment Principles (NBIP) demonstrates APEC’s commitment to promoting investment and addressing challenges posed by a rapidly evolving business environment. The Principles were successfully revised seventeen years after they were first established.

The "Strategy for Investment" was approved at the third Senior Officials Meeting in September 2010. The Strategy aims for more investment flows within and throughout the APEC region and is implemented under three categories that serves as its pillars. They are: Advanced Principles and Practices; Facilitation; and Promotion. Some of the activities under this Strategy include analytical studies on investment practices, IFAP follow-up, Public-Private Dialogues on investment, capacity building and information sharing, as well as cooperation with other international organizations.

Other IEG projects that are recently completed or currently underway include:   

1. The project "Investing Across Borders: an important diagnostic tool to assist in IFAP implementation - Stage 1," seeks to use the World Bank's Investing Across Border Indicators to improve APEC member economies' strategies to implement the priority actions in the IFAP. The APEC specific report, “Investing Across Borders - APEC” was published in June 2011. This report provides baseline data, provides support for policy and structural reforms, and assists APEC members to identify and remove barriers to foreign investment.
   
   
2. The report "2010 Guide to the Investment Regimes of APEC Member Economies (7th edition)" was published in May 2011. The guide provides a single online access point to key information required by business and fosters safe and efficient capital markets through increased transparency. The report will be updated annually.
    
3. The workshop, "Intensive Training Course on Core Elements of International Investment Agreements (IIA) in the APEC Region" was held in March 2011 in Lima, Peru. The course aimed at deepening knowledge and understanding of the key and emerging issues in IIAs, giving special attention to issues in IIA negotiations and implications for investor-state dispute settlement.
   
   
4. The project "Core Elements Project - Moving beyond phase III - A Hand book for negotiators (steps 1 and 2): A Handbook for Negotiators of IIAs (step 1) / A Seminar for Negotiators of IIAs (step 2)." published a Handbook to assist negotiators and policy makers of APEC economies in the concrete formulation of model treaties, in the preparation of negotiations, and in the formulation/wording of provisions during the negotiation process. A three day Peer Review Seminar which contributed to the preparation and finalization of the Handbook was held in January 2011 in Chile.
   
   
5. The “APEC Seminar on Infrastructure Investment in 2011” aimed at promoting investment for infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region by analyzing the present condition of, and need for, infrastructure was held in September 2011 in San Francisco, the United States.
   
   
6. The APEC-UNCTAD Workshop on Best Practices in Investment Policy Formulation in the APEC Region” aimed at further deepen investment policy formulations approaches of negotiators and policymakers from the APEC region, with a view to further increase awareness and build capacity in the Asia-Pacific  was held in Moscow, Russia in November 2011.
   
   
7. The project, “Seminar on Successful Cases of Renewable and Clean Energy Investment in APEC” is aimed at increasing understanding and raising awareness of opportunities for investment within APEC economies in RCE; sharing experiences, lessons and opinions on the role of cross-border investment in increasing utilization of RCE and dissemination of RCE technologies; and sharing experiences on facilitation and promotion of cross-border RCE investment. The seminar to share the successful cases will be held in China in June, 2012.