A planned program aimed at growing economic activity would be the best way to create sustained

economic growth during this uncertain period. Industrialization promotes economic growth by
increasing productive capacity, employment creation, innovation, and resource efficiency. Trade
openness boosts FDI, global market integration, technological advancement, and a country's
productive capacity. Access to credit and financial services is facilitated by financial development, as
is capital accumulation for future investment. Energy consumption is one of the most important
productive variables that lead to economic growth. Moreover, energy use hurts the environment by
increasing carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), which have an indirect impact on economic growth.
Industrialization promotes economic growth by boosting industrial output, encouraging innovation,
and maximizing resource utilization. Therefore, as industry develops, so will energy use, and energy
consumption has a detrimental impact on environmental quality through increasing CO2 emissions,
which affects economic growth indirectly. Moreover, trade provides countries with access to
modern technology and facilitates FDI flows, which promotes the growth of clean industries. When
industrialization grows, resource depletion resurfaces and has a detrimental impact on the overall
well-being of the community.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is often recognized as Africa's most tranquil
and stable area. The SADC area also has the highest economic potential in Sub-Saharan Africa, owing
to its abundance of natural resources, notably mineral resources. However, poverty and economic
inequality within and between SADC Member States remain the region's most serious challenges.
About 60% of SADC citizens continue to live on less than USD 1.90 per day. Women, young people,
and social and ethnic minorities are more vulnerable to marginalization and poverty. Moreover, the
SADC area is highly impacted by the effects of climate change, which has a negative impact on food
security. This has a particularly negative impact on individuals who are already poor. The German
government has made strengthening the African Union (AU), SADC, and other African regional
organizations a long-term goal. SADC is one of eight African regional organizations under the
auspices of the AU. Its precursor organization, the Southern African Development Coordination
Conference (SADCC), was created in 1980 as a coalition of frontline states seeking to enhance their
economic independence from South Africa's apartheid system. With the foundation of SADC in 1992,
new shared objectives were formed following the end of apartheid and the admission of newly
democratic South Africa. Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini
(Swaziland), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South
Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are the current members of SADC.
The SADC Secretariat is headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. SADC's goal is to accomplish
development, peace, security, and economic progress. SADC seeks to reduce poverty, improve the
standard of living and quality of life in southern Africa, and assist the socially disadvantaged via
regional integration based on democratic principles and equitable and sustainable development.

The goal of the German government is to strengthen SADC in order to advance regional political and
economic cooperation. In order to increase a state's appeal to local and international investors, this
is accomplished through integrating Member States into communities based on shared
responsibility, expanding markets with freedom of movement for products, services, labor, and
capital, and by reducing trade obstacles. German Development Cooperation hopes to accelerate the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by supporting the SADC's
integration goal. Since SADC was founded in 1992, the German government has contributed more
than 400 million euros in assistance in addition to its multilateral commitment through the European
Union. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South
Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Zambia are eight of the 16 SADC Member States with
whom Germany has significant bilateral development cooperation. Every two years, negotiations
between SADC and Germany take place. The most current round, which pledged a total of 64.625
million euros for the years 2020–2021, was essentially finished in June 2021. The participants
reiterated their shared objectives of enhancing regional cooperation for the benefit of the populace
and reducing poverty during these deliberations. Cooperation continues to be demonstrated
building national-regional ties throughout the whole SADC region in the priority areas of regional
economic integration, transboundary water management, cross-border protection, and exploitation
of natural resources, particularly adaptation to climate change.

SADC has selected six key sectors where the value chains are being built in order to promote the
development of regional value chains and involvement in global processes. They are in the fields of
medicines, consumer products, capital goods, services, and geoprocessing. A number of SADC
Member States are already developing geoprocessing, pharmaceutical (ARVs and COVID-19
Medicinal Products), and leather value chains as part of the Support to Industrialization and the
Productive Sectors in the SADC Region (SIPS) initiative, which is funded by the European Union (EU).
The sustainable growth of integrated green and blue economies that will produce income and jobs is
a focus of RISDP's Pillar I. With a focus on enhancing collaboration and coordination between
Member States in the tourist sector, the RISDP 2020– 2030 aims to continue intensifying efforts
toward the free movement of products, services, and talents. Macroeconomic convergence, greater
financial integration, monetary coordination, and investment are major priorities. Interventions are
concentrated on further increasing financial integration and inclusion, as well as improved monetary
cooperation, which will surely result in a rise in domestic and intra-regional foreign direct
investment.

The SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap (2015–2063) was formed in 2017, and the Value
Chains function was established to coordinate its implementation and monitoring, with an emphasis
on the growth and improvement of regional value chains and value addition, including mineral
beneficiation. Implementing policies and strategies for the development of regional value chains,
creating value chain initiatives and programs, creating industrial value chain clusters, and engaging in
public-private dialogues are some of the major areas of attention.

Government policies, labor-saving innovations, entrepreneurial aspirations, and consumer demand