CAIPA organizes a training and workshop series on the subject of business development and investor targeting in the Dominican Republic for its members.

The event also aims to stimulate business contacts between transnational corporations (TNCs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For this purpose, the planning and implementation of the priority area "Economic Development and Tourism" was commissioned to Kai Partale. The aim is to provide concrete support to the CAIPA member states in their location and tourism development through up-to-date practice-oriented know-how.

CAIPA is the overarching economic development organisation of the following Caribbean states: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & News, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Turks & Caicos.