Swaziland wins award for Investment Promotion Excellence

Swaziland has been awarded the runner up position in the World on investment promotion excellence by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Investment (UNCTAD).

The award given to the Swaziland Investment Promotion Authority (SIPA) was presented to the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Dr. Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini by the United Nations Resident Coordinator Israel Dessalegne.

This is an award that took into account an organisation’s investment promotion strategy, as well as its effectiveness in assisting new investors to establish operations in a short period of time.  The assessment involved personal contact with new investors of the previous year.

The Hon. Prime Minister says he trusts that SIPA has learned from what it observed of the strategies of other country participants in the UNCTAD competition.

“On behalf of His Majesty’s Government, I congratulate SIPA on this commendable achievement.  And I add that now is the time to extend that excellence into exemplary leadership in coordinating the implementation of the new Investor Roadmap” he said.