Background
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa (ECA SRO SA) is providing technical support to the Government of Lesotho to review and develop the country’s successor industrial policy. This is on the basis that Lesotho's Industrial Policy (2015-2017) has long expired and the government through the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Business Development and Tourism (MoTIBT) requested support to draft a successor policy considering changes in the regional operating environment, including the AfCFTA.
At the national level, the NIP has been aligned to the National Strategic Development Focus Plan (NSSP) II Strategic Focus 2023/24-2027/28 and other relevant policies and strategies of the Government of Lesotho. The successor policy has also been drafted in alignment with the SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap (2015-2063), as a regional industrial development blueprint which aims to promote industrialization, enhance competitiveness, and deepen economic growth through structural transformation. At continental level, the NIP has taken into consideration emerging trade and industrialisation issues under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
The successor industrial policy will strengthen Lesotho’s capacity to coordinate industrial policy implementation, mobilize resources for implementation and monitoring progress to deliver on the country’s industrialization milestones.
Objectives
The Government of Lesotho/MoTIBT and ECA-SRO-SA are organising through a collaborative arrangement a one-day validation workshop for the successor Lesotho Industrial Policy to obtain feedback into the policy document with the overall objective of reviewing and validating the findings and recommendations of the successor National Industrial Policy (NIP) for Lesotho.
Additionally, the meeting will provide a platform for stakeholders who were unable to participate in the questionnaire-based data collection to provide inputs into the draft policy document to ensure and enhance collective ownership of the Lesotho National Industrial Policy.
For further information, please contact:
Ms. Talumba Ireen Chilipaine,
Economic Affairs Officer
UNECA Southern Africa Office
P. O Box 30647
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel: +260 211 228502-5
Fax: +260 211 236949
Email: talumba.chilipaine@un.org
Media Contacts
Mrs. Lavender Degre,
Communication Officer,
UNECA Southern Africa Office
P. O Box 30647
Lusaka, Zambia
Tel: +260 211 228502/5 Ext. 21307
DL: +260 211 376607
Email: lavender.degre@un.org
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