International Projects Division (IPD) of IIFT has been conceived to internationalise the reach of the Institute to the need of other countries and to work as a catalyst to the Indian government and corporate sector to deepen its economic relationship with partner countries.  This Division will help IIFT to achieve the position of a Centre of Excellence in imparting education, training and conducting research in other parts of the world in the area of International Business and Trade.  One of the key objectives of the IPD is to train government officials, diplomats, entrepreneurs, exporters, corporate sector and civil society members to develop broader understanding of issues related to international business and its implications on trade policy. IPD would work towards generating views, opinions, analysis on number of contemporary trade and economic issues which would be of interest to different nations in developing economic relationship with other countries including India. 
As a part of decisions taken at India Africa Forum Summit, 08-09 April 2008, the Institute has been entrusted with the responsibility to conduct customized Capacity Building Programmes on International Business in various parts of Africa and to establish the India Africa Institute of Foreign Trade (IAIFT) at Kampala, Uganda by Department of Commerce, Government of India.   
Consequently an interactive meet of Heads of African Missions was organized on September 10, 2008 at the Institute which received an overwhelming response from African diplomats. Further strengthening associations of IIFT with African countries, the President  of the Republic of Rwanda H. E. Paul Kagame visited the Institute and delivered a special talk on “The Changing International Political Economy and Implications for Africa" on 20 January, 2009.  Later on an interactive meet with the  African Union (AU) delegation consisting of the Members of the Bureau of the Multilateral Affairs Sub Committee of the Permanent Representatives Committee of the African Union led by the Permanent Representative of Cameroon to the African Union, H.E. Mr. Jacques Alfered Ndoumbe Eboule included Ambassador John K. Shinkaiye, Chief of Staff of the Office of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the Permanent Representatives of Egypt, Sudan, South Africa and Benin at the AU was held on 11 March 2010 at the Institute which was attended by a large number of Heads of African Missions based in India.