The Green Industrialization Hub supports developing countries in designing and implementing strategies to build local value chains for energy transition technologies that advance their energy transition, job creation and industrialization goals.
Energy transition and green growth plans must be closely linked to industrialization and job creation goals to reduce import dependency and maximize socio-economic benefits. With the growing adoption of key technologies, including solar PV, batteries and electric vehicles, developing countries have an opportunity to build local value chains promoting local assembly and manufacturing with backward linkages to critical mineral resources, where available.
While ambitions exist, translating these plans into action requires a holistic green industrialization plan and a suite of industrial policy tools addressing demand and supply side incentives, access to financing, trade, technology access, skills and firm-level capabilities.
Through partnerships with governments, the private sector, financing institutions and development partners, the Hub builds on SEforALL’s in-country engagement to deliver tailored support for creating greater local value in the energy transition value chain and unlocking opportunities for regional and international cooperation.
The Green Industrialization Hub is an impact-focused platform to support the design and implementation of holistic national and regional green industrialization strategies that enable developing countries to harness the full social and economic opportunity offered by the global energy transition.
Intervention Areas
Design an enabling industrial policy framework
including long-term plans, measures to stimulate domestic demand, assessment of comparative advantages, incentive design for local manufacturers, and enhance access to regional and global markets.
Develop state-of-the-art data and analysis
guiding regional and national-level decision making on policy design and investments.
Build green manufacturing workforce
by identifying skills gaps and partnering with the government, academia, training institutions and industry players to develop curricula and support delivery of tailored programmes covering both technical and non-technical aspects.
Strengthen local enterprises
through knowledge sharing and capacity building, partnership, investment facilitation and market access support.
Advance south-south and international cooperation
by bringing tailored data and analytics and mainstreaming the green value chain agenda in regional and global fora, including the G20, COP and ASEAN.
The Green Industrialization Hub is currently supporting country and regional level action to develop domestic value chains for energy transition technologies through the following initiatives:
Interested in partnering with us? Reach out to us Africaremi@seforall.org