The future of manufacturing in Africa: visions and plans for achieving comprehensive industrial development

The future of industrialization in Africa: visions and plans for achieving industrial development Comprehensive

The importance of industry and its role in economic growth within African countries is increasing, with efforts being made to advance the industrialization profile on the continent and introduce new technologies and industries whose role is to provide job opportunities and achieve high growth rates. Which contributes to protecting the independence of countries and reducing their exposure to external economic shocks.

As part of these efforts, the African continent celebrates African Industrialization Day on November 20, as the continent prepares for a full week in which it reviews its industrial vision and goals that are consistent with the 2063 Agenda. In order to advance industry in Africa.

Industrial Renaissance in Agenda 2063

TheAgenda 2063comes as a result of efforts to drive growth in the industrialization file in Africa. It is a strategy for social and economic transformation in the continent over the next 50 years, and its vision is to create an integrated and prosperous continent, under the slogan “Unity, Shared Prosperity and Peace.”

Its framework includes 18 goals; The most important of them are:

• Increasing contribution to local manufacturing.
• Absorption of the new workforce.
• Processing agricultural products locally.
• Enhancing technology-based manufacturing.
• Integrating Africa into global value chains.
• And creating strong African companies continentally and globally.

In the context of searching for ways to finance the 2063 Agenda concerned with the industrialization file in Africa, the members of the African Union agreed that it is necessary to ensure sufficient and available sources of financing. For member states to rely on, in order to avoid repeating the usual scenarios of stopping and delaying previous continental agendas due to the lack of sufficient funding.

Therefore, Africa’s Agenda 2063 is based on a strategic plan to reform the system of financing continental and regional plans, which includes several axes, including: not relying on external grants as a sole source of financing, stopping the low estimate of the continent’s capabilities with the help of its people, putting an end to capital flows coming from illegal means, and diversifying the continent’s sources and resources.

African Industrialization Day November 20

In light of the race towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and within the efforts to advance the industrialization file in Africa; The Organization of African Unity held its twenty-fifth session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa in 1989.

The organization declared during this session the twentieth of November as the Day of Industrialization in Africa, and since then the United Nations has been working to organize related events. To raise awareness of the importance of industry in Africa, and to address the challenges it faces in this field.

Celebration of 2025

This year’s celebration has great importance through activities extending over an entire week, which will be held in Kampala, Uganda, from November 17 to 21 under the slogan “Transforming Africa’s economy through sustainable industrialization, regional integration and innovation.”

Infrastructure

This week aims to consolidate policy consensus, mobilize investments, and develop infrastructure to accelerate the industrial growth process and raise the value of manufacturing in Africa.

Intra-trade

It will also enhance intra-African trade, encourage entrepreneurship among youth and women, and showcase innovative local solutions that advance economic development on the African continent.

Sustainable Manufacturing

The activities include several objectives, including: promoting sustainable industrialization, as well as enhancing regional integration by strengthening coordination on industrial development between the African Union countries and the regional economic communities, and providing a dedicated platform for emerging African companies led by youth and women.

Regulatory frameworks

This year’s objectives also include improving policy recommendations and continental regulatory frameworks for industrial policies, such as the Africa Industrial Development Agenda, and developing guidelines; In order to promote sustainable industrialization, regional integration and innovation on the African continent.

African Women’s Forum

On the sidelines of the African Manufacturing Week, the fourth edition of the African Women in Manufacturing Forum and the first edition of the African Youth Startup Forum will be held, where dedicated platforms will be provided to empower women-led companies and young innovators, enhance participation in value chains, and stimulate partnerships and investment opportunities across the continent.

Egypt Industrialization Model in Africa

With the increasing momentum and race towards re-localizing industries, Egypt is emerging as one of the most important pioneering countries in localizing industries, developing intra-trade, and financing the industrialization file in Africa. The Egyptian government has granted more space to the private sector, chambers of commerce, and civil society organizations to participate in trade expansion plans towards Africa.

This led to the growth of the volume of trade exchange with the countries of the continent to about 9.9 billion dollars, compared to 4.4 billion dollars ten years ago, with a goal of reaching 30 billion dollars by the year 2030.

The rates also indicated the growth of the Egyptian economy in 2025, as exports increased by a rate ranging between 15 and 20%, with an increase in the marketing of Egyptian goods and products – especially in the building materials and chemical industries sector – in countries such as Kenya, and then delivering them to various African markets, as Egypt is steadily taking its steps as a pioneering country in the field of sustainable manufacturing.

With the efforts made in the race towards comprehensive industrial development, theThe Earth Guards Foundation calls for the necessity of working to strengthen the industrialization file in Africa, and consolidating ties between the countries of the continent by expanding the scope and volume of trade exchanges, and finding ways and trade agreements that would achieve the goals of sustainable development, and advance the African continent with the help of its people and join On the ride of civilization.