In 2016 the Trade and Integration Network will organize two meetings:

1. Caribbean Sub-Regional Meeting "Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in the Caribbean", to take place in May 12, 2016 in Miami. The meeting is organized in collaboration with the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA). The objective of the meeting is to discuss policy options to attract and retain foreign direct investment in the Caribbean in times of economic slowdown. The dialogue will provide an opportunity to review global best practices and to hear the voice of the private sector in order to identify a set of key action items that policymakers of the region may implement regionally or nationally. It will be attended by Ministers responsible for foreign direct investment and by Directors of the national investment promotion agencies (IPAs).

On May 13, following the Dialogue, the Caribbean Investment Summit will discuss business-oriented issues of foreign direct investment in the region and will provide an opportunity for IPAs of the region to present their pipeline of investment projects by sector. The Summit will also include one-to-one business meetings between investors and IPAs.

2. 12ª Reunión de la Red de Comercio e Integración "Innovando en materia de atracción de inversión extranjera: una mirada global con aplicación en América Latina", to take place in June 8, 2016 in Panama. Latin America isin the right moment to modernize its investment promotion agencies, aiming at promoting institutional excellence and efficacy, by integrating good international practices, including agencies that operate as single windowsfor trade and investment to maximize economic, social and environmental development.

The objective of this meeting is to discuss public policy options that will allow the Region to become more efficient in attracting and retaining sustainable foreign direct investment, particularly in times of economic slowdown. Participants will have the opportunity to review current international good practices, listen from the private sector perspective, and identify actions tobe implemented at the national andregional level.