Preliminary toolkit to facilitate the development of local and regional mineral supply chains in Africa

Abstract

The objective of this assignment is to develop a training manual and toolkit to support capacity-building in mineral supply chain development and the African continent’s industrialization ambitions at both the national and regional levels (Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), 2020), while taking into account the global challenges posed by climate change and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. A manual and toolkit have therefore been designed for a range of stakeholders, including government and regional economic community officials, mining and mineral supply chain firms, industry associations, researchers and academics, and civil society organizations. The proposed toolkit provides a useful methodology for building mineral supply chains at the local, national and regional economic community levels in African countries. It has been formulated to facilitate efforts by African States to take advantage of mining industry backward linkage opportunities and to use mineral resources to drive industrialization, particularly in those countries whose economies are highly dependent on the exploitation of their mineral resources