Costed Action Plan for SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap
The Standardisation, Quality Assurance, Accreditation and Metrology (SQAM)
initiative
The Regional Action Programme on Investment (RAPI)
The Regional Agricultural Plan (RAP)
The Mineral Linkages & Beneficiation Plan
Digital SADC 2027
Strategic Water Supply Infrastructure Development Programme
Regional Green Economy Strategy and Action Plan for Sustainable
Development
It also includes measures to ensure that they are aligned, and promote industrialisation.
In addition, national industrial policies would need to be realigned across the region for
accelerated implementation of the above initiatives.
To this end, the Action Plan also identifies more precisely the activities that need
coordination at the regional level, while acknowledging that industrial policy remains a
national prerogative.
The results-based framework has been utilized to define more precisely:
The targeted outcomes and outputs
KPIs and key actions
Timeframes
Responsibilities
Indicative direct costs
These aspects constitute the elements of the Action Matrices outlined in the part on the
Action Plan Framework.
By situating the Action Plan within the context of current and future challenges, the
following measures should be prioritized:
Ensure that macroeconomic policy supports industrialization through
appropriate counter-cyclical approaches, support inclusive growth, economic
diversification, enhanced competitiveness and promote regional integration.
Ensure that Member States, supported by the SADC Secretariat, target
support to industrialization with a particular emphasis on enabling
infrastructure development; investment-led trade; strong and enabling
regulation; industrial finance and incentives; local procurement and the
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