Report of the meeting of African experts on building materials and construction industries

Abstract

Report of the meeting of African experts on building materials and construction industries. The building materials and construction industries development programme started in earnest in August 1977 when a team of experts was sent to visit eight African countries. This report examine the present situation of the building materials and construction industries; to determine the various elements of the strategy for the formation of these industries and in the light of those elements, to recommend a long-term development policy and programme setting various objectives at the national subregional and regional levels and to satisfy ways of achieving them and to determine the priorities in the formation of national sub regional and regional to the building materials and construction industries.