This policy brief is the fifth in a series of six briefs drawn from the fifth edition of the Sustainable Development Report on Africa, a joint publication of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the United Nations Development Programme on the theme “achieving sustainable development in Africa through inclusive green growth”. The brief highlights the role of industry in promoting inclusive green growth in the region.
Africa’s natural resources endowment can propel commodity-based industrialization and economic structural transformation that could shift the sectoral composition in favour of high-productivity activities, especially manufacturing and modern services. Such industrialization can be oriented to promote inclusive green growth that fosters resource use efficiency and ecosystems integrity, creates jobs, generates income and wealth, lifts millions out of poverty and improves human welfare. The policy brief provides potentials and trends of the industrial sector in promoting inclusive green growth with best practices in Nigeria and Mozambique.