Africa Industrialization Week 2019

The Africa Industrialization Day (AID), represents a unique platform to enhance international cooperation and dialogue on the pan-African industrialization agenda and to raise awareness of the opportunities and challenges associated with this innovation drive.

Every year it gathers African leaders, policymakers, and representatives of the private sector, academia, international financial institutions (IFIs) and development partners to showcase the continued relevance of industry, including manufacturing production, as a powerful engine to build the Africa we want as underlined in Agenda 2063.

This year the African Union in collaboration and partners have planned week-long activities to mark Africa Industrialization Day (AID). Africa Industrialization Week 2019 is themed, “Positioning African Industry to supply the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AFCTA) Market”

AIW 2019 Key Objectives are:

• Mobilizing both African and leaders from the rest of the world, including international development organizations to advocate for the accelerated and sustainable as well as inclusive industrialization of Africa.
• Promotion of startups, small and medium-sized enterprises/industries (SMEs), as well as established middle and high-cap enterprises to strengthen the continent’s capacity to integrate into the global production and trading system.
• Providing a platform for public-private engagement between industrial policymakers, the private sector, civil society, and development cooperating partners.
• Promote the implementation of AU continental frameworks such as; the Accelerated Industrial Development of Africa (AIDA); the Africa Mining Vision (AMV), the SME Strategy; the Boosting Intra-African Trade strategy (BIAT); the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA); and the UN General Assembly’s Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa (IDDA III) in the context of Agenda 2063.
• Development of a continental strategy on the automotive value chain to catalyze industrialization.

VENUE:

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
18-22 November 2019

Original source: AU
Published on 23 October 2019