FGG TNI ToC 2: Improved Trade and Investment

TNI and partners will tackle the negative impacts of investment protection and investment arbitration and strive to enhance developing countries’ policy space for sustainable development, working on a shift towards a more democratic and sustainable trade policy, coherent with the sustainable development goals. TNI will foster knowledge development by monitoring government policies, carrying out research and publishing a series of briefings. TNI will actively support Southern partners in their research and lobby efforts, and will facilitate knowledge building and sharing among southern partners across all regions to ensure mutual learning and where needed joint strategizing. TNI will also develop common analysis and lobby the Dutch government in relation to its trade and investment policies and treaties as well as European institutions (European Commission and Parliament). Partners will co-host training workshops, research and analysis and will lobby their own governments and regional bodies governing investments. In order to develop strategies to respond to human and environmental rights violations caused by different types of natural resources grabbing, TNI will work with organizations and movements in the South, supporting communities’ work at local and national level, specifically providing tools and building arguments with them for debates with public authorities. TNI will also support the articulation and planning to strategize with different organizations and develop outreach strategies in order to make these organizations visible, raise awareness and reach out to influence public opinion. To work on international networking and advocacy, TNI will deepen the efforts to articulate interests at the international level, building common strategies, exchanging experiences, proposing concrete campaigns and advocating at Dutch, European and international level. TNI will also promote research on concrete/emblematic cases, documenting experiences of organization and advocacy. Next to these capacity building activities, TNI will also explore the use of existing international instruments and tools to advocate and develop positive experiences of use and control of natural resources, including FPIC, VGGT, VGSSF, UNDRIP, UN Guidelines on displacement, and eviction.