The Global Forum on International Investment will focus on “Policy Options for Reviving Investment in the MENA Region: Protection, Promotion and Risk Mitigation”, as a response to the direct impact of the recent events on private investment in the MENA region. Private investment, international, regional and local, needs to be encouraged to foster inclusive growth and job creation in the MENA region. Restoring investor confidence, retaining existing private investors and promoting new investment opportunities -- including in infrastructure -- are important challenges that need to be met in order to generate long-term and sustainable growth and employment. National efforts by governments in the MENA region are to be supported by the G8 countries which, at their summit in Deauville in May 2011, called for further investment integration in the region, including “the promotion of direct investments and regulatory convergence”.