Heads of State and Governments of the member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will be meeting this week in Gaborone, Botswana to further discuss the region's industrial and infrastructure development.
This follows on the Extraordinary Summit held in Zimbabwe in April 2015, at which point the Summit adopted the Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap (ISR). The strategy remains more a vision document than a detailed action plan, and lacks specific proposals on how to achieve the broad goals the document sets out. The topic for this coming week's meeting is 'Accelerating Industrialisation of SADC Economies Through Transformation of Natural Endowment and Improved Human Capital', which is a progression of the theme of economic transformation and sustainable development through beneficiation and value-addition, as discussed in April.
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