6th Annual SADC Industrialisation Week

6th Annual SADC Industrialisation Week

The SADC Industrialization Week (SIW) is an annual public private engagement platform aimed at fostering new opportunities for intra-African trade, developing cross border value chains, and identifying investment opportunities in Southern Africa. Annually, the SIW brings together leading private sector expects, regional and global policy makers, Development Finance Institutions, SADC officials, donors, civil society and leading industrialists and captains of industry in SADC and in the continent to identify investment opportunities, industrialisation bottlenecks and jointly recommend solutions. The 6th SADC Industrialization Week (SIW) will be hosted by the government of the Democratic- Republic of the Congo from 2 - 6 August 2022. The theme for the 6th SIW is “Promoting industrialisation through agro-processing, mineral beneficiation, and regional value chains for inclusive and resilient economic growth.” The 2022 SIW will be the sixth event following the successful SIWs held in the Kingdom of Eswatini, Republic of South Africa, Republic of Namibia, United Republic of Tanzania and Republic of Malawi, over the last five years.