FTIB aims for more projects
5-Feb-2010 08:03 AM

As the official investment promoting agency of Government, the Fiji Islands Trade and Investment Bureau (FTIB) is targeting to register around 150 to 200 projects this year, says CEO FTIB Ms Annie Rogers.

The projects are projected to bring about $300 million to $500 million.

Regarded as one of the most important organisations in the country that can develop the economy and create much needed jobs, Ms Rogers said the focus now would be on trade and investment missions and the streamlining of internal registration processes.

In that regard, FTIB is looking at hosting an interagency workshop at the end of this month to enable the 22 to 25 approval agencies brainstorm the streamlining of the approval agencies processes and how it can be improved.

While the coordination between the agencies has improved over the years, Ms Rogers said the workshop would enable FTIB to be more aware of what different agencies do and how they blend to get the projects off the ground.

On the same note, FTIB has stepped up what is called a ‘case based approach’ in which a specific staff from FTIB is assigned to an investor until the investment project is off the ground.

This would be an added boost in the expansion of trade both within Fiji and with our trading partners and move the economy forward.