Costed Action Plan for SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap
materials beneficiation – prioritized in the Industrialization Strategy and Road
Map. In doing this, there will be need to ensure that investments are
adequately climate proofed and have the necessary strategies for ensuring
resource use efficiency and waste and emissions reduction.
b)
Those such as Lesotho, Swaziland, Mauritius and Seychelles should upgrade
their value chain participation by moving up-market from low-technology
activities and/or developing or expanding their service sector value chains, as
is already evident in Mauritius and Seychelles.
c)
Scale and productivity issues also play a large part in explaining the relative
under-development of value chains in SADC. According to the OECD these
are exacerbated by fundamental problems related to the quality of
infrastructure or indeed institutions. Accordingly tackling these aspects should
have a high priority.
d)
Gains from value chain participation do not accrue in a uniform fashion. One
size does not fit all and benefits will vary in line with production technologies,
market geography and the level of industrialization.
e)
To leverage industrialization, Member States should collaborate on specific
industrialization projects, value chains and clusters.
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