‘Industrialize Mozambique’ to launch in Chimoio this Friday

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‘Industrialize Mozambique’ to launch in Chimoio this Friday

7:58 CAT | 04 Aug 2021

File photo: O País

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) is launching its ‘National Program to Industrialize Mozambique’ in Chimoio, Manica province, on Friday (August 6).

The presidential initiative, framed within the implementation of the government’s 2020-2024 Five-Year Program, aims to increase national industrial production, preferably using local raw materials, stimulating production and commercialisation, as well as generating employment and income for young people and women.

A statement sent to O País by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce reveals that a Manica business and investment roundtable between Mozambique and the United Kingdom will take place in parallel, under the motto ‘Developing Manica, through investments, industrialisation and exports’.

In addition to showcasing the opportunities of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) between Mozambique and the countries of the Southern African Customs Union with the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, the roundtable will reflect on commercial transactions between Mozambique and the UK, sharing the testimonies and experiences of various stakeholders in the centre of the country.

This event will also serve to disseminate information and opportunities, launch the ‘Buy What is Ours’ project, and support female entrepreneurship (SADC WIB) and the 56th edition of FACIM-2021.

The business and investment roundtable will be preceded, on Wednesday and Thursday (August 4 and 5), by the XIX Coordinating Council of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, also in Chimoio, and held under the motto “Industrialize Mozambique: Creating the bases for integrated and sustainable development”.

The MIC Coordinating Board will analyse the performance of the main instruments, and harmonise and align activities for the following year, with a view to materialising the sector’s strategic objectives contained in the government’s Five-Year Program, namely, to guarantee articulation and complementarity between the institutions, as well as the improvement, harmonisation and consolidation of sector activities for the following years.

The Coordinating Council is, under the terms of the law, the consultative body convened and directed by the minister, and its function is to coordinate, plan and control the joint governing action of central organs and local bodies of the ministry.

All three events will be held in a hybrid format (in effect, substantially virtual), taking into account the need to comply with the measures set out in Presidential Decree No. 50, of 16 July 2021.

By Ernesto Martinho

Source: O País