Investment-Related Dispute Settlement

In most cases, DFIs only become often on the investors’ activities, and the purpose practice, however, even though the government involved in dispute resolution mechanisms when is usually to ensure that the investment is carried agencies can be the entities actually implementing affected stakeholders complain to the DFIs’ out as planned by identifying and neutralizing the a project, they are rarel [...] For disputes some participants, the common interest of the that start between communities and private GENERAL PUBLIC various actors to continue the investment should investors, governments can also play a key role in be identified, so as to promote and leverage resolving the issues and ensuring the continuity of Participants recognized the importance of having compliance. [...] NORMATIVE FRAMEWORKS Environmental and Social Performance Standards Given that many investigations focus on the in the beginning of negotiations to make their DFI itself, in some cases, the borrowers or the Participants recognized the different normative initial demands known and to strengthen their investigated companies may feel that the results frameworks usually applied to development bargaini [...] Building on the experience of IAMs, accountability and mediation function in accountability mechanism to ensure compliance a new multilateral mechanism should allow for trade and investment agreements with the guidelines and standards as accepted innovative solution-oriented dispute prevention by the state parties for multinational enterprises, and resolution through fact-finding and As the Europe [...] The options will mechanism (such as one of the existing IAMs) complement developments in the United Nations or a new mechanism (set up by the treaty parties In addition to the accountability mechanisms on business and human rights.