(ix) Textile and leather industries; (x) Transport and communications industries; and (xi) Biotechnology industries; (b) Ensure the promotion of small-scale industries with a view to enhancing the generation of employment opportunities in Member States; (c) Promote intermediate industries that have strong linkages to the economy in order to increase the local component of industrial output within the Community; (d) Prepare master plans at regional and Community levels for the establishment of African multinational industries particularly those whose construction cost and volumes of production exceed national financial and absorptive capacities; (e) Strengthen and establish, where they do not exist, specialised institutions for the financing of African multinational industrial projects; (f) Facilitate the establishment of African multinational enterprises and encourage and give financial and technical support to African entrepreneurs; (g) Promote the sale and consumption of strategic industrial products manufactured in Member States; (h) Promote technical co-operation and the exchange of experience in the field of industrial technology and implement technical training programmes among Member States; (i) Strengthen the existing multinational institutions, particularly, the African Regional Centre for Technology, the African Regional Centre for Design and Manufacture and the African Industrial Development Fund; (j) Establish a data and statistical information base to serve industrial development at the regional and continental levels; (k) Promote South-South and North-South co-operation for the attainment of industrialisation objectives in Africa; (l) Promote industrial specialisation in order to enhance the complementarity of African economies and expand the intraCommunity trade base, due account being taken of national and regional resource endowments; and (m) Adopt common standards and appropriate quality control systems, which are crucial to industrial co-operation and integration. 36