“Sharjah Investment 2025” attracts participants from 142 countries and more than 30 global entities

Sharjah, September 25 / WAM / attracts the “Sharjah Investment Forum 2025”, delegations from 142 countries and more than 30 organizations and international institutions to discuss ways to direct investments towards comprehensive and sustainable development priorities, at a time when international reports indicate a global financing gap exceeding $ 4.2 trillion annually to achieve sustainable development goals until 2030.

The work of the forum is participating in the work of high -level delegations from prominent countries such as the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Egypt, which reflects the comprehensiveness of attendance and balance between different continents, and enhances Sharjah’s position as a major axis of global economic dialogue.

The session, which will be held on October 22-23, comes at the Jewels Center for Events and Conferences, in cooperation between the Sharjah Foreign Investment Office (Invest in Sharjah), and the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WIPA) and the Ministry of Investment in the UAE, to form a unified global platform that brings together the most prominent decision makers and the influencing parties in drawing international investment trends, as well as promotion agencies and economic centers And research.

Marwan Al -Ajla, the general coordinator of the “Sharjah Investment Forum” committee, stressed that the next session of the forum comes this year with an unprecedented global nature in terms of the nature and level of posts, and in terms of the agenda that deals with files that constitute the essence of the international debate on the future of investment and development.

Dr. James Zan, Chairman of the Executive Council of the Global Investment Conference, said that the conference is the most prominent event for the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies, where the visions meet capital, to form an international platform that reviews practical solutions, strategic partnerships, and transformational steps for making the future of investment.

The “Economic Cooperation and Development Organization” participates in cooperation with the Ministry of Investment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in an intensive executive workshop that discusses ways to develop the performance of investment promotion agencies and enhance their role in facilitating foreign direct investment flows, and the “United Nations Industrial Development Organization” also proposes in a high -level session entitled “Higher Investment Strategies with Sustainable Development Goals”, practical models of how to harmonize strategies National and institutional investment with sustainable development goals.

In a specialized session entitled “Beyond Profits: Converting Direct Foreign Investment into More and Better Jobs”, the “International Labor Organization” focuses on linking investment policies to work through models that generate decent opportunities that enhance productivity and stability.

In another session, the “International Trade Organization” reviews ways to integrate environmental and social priorities in the strategies of promoting investment, with a focus on messages that reflect the developmental effect in addition to the financial return, which constitutes a qualitative shift in the relationship between the investor and the local community.

The “World Tourism Organization” participates in cooperation with the “World Free Zones Organization” in a session entitled “The role of free zones in promoting tourism investment”, which reviews its activation mechanisms as incubators for qualitative opportunities and creating new jobs, especially in the global southern countries. A session for the International Alliance of Investment Promotion Agencies – WAIPA -SucRIPA is also held by representatives of Europe, Latin America and Africa to enhance cooperation, exchange of data and coordinate transnational efforts.

The forum program is celebrated with additional, prominent and global remote sessions, which guarantee a high -level intellectual session that combines centers to analyze investment policies to draw the future agenda in this sector.

The activities come at a time when reports indicate that financing the sectors related to the sustainable development goals decreased by more than 10%during the past few years, highlighting the need for coordinated efforts to redirect investments and stimulate policies.

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