This forum provides a space for development planners, experts, researchers, and stakeholders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) National Planning Entities (NPEs) to discuss, share, and harness knowledge, directed toward the economic transformation of the SADC region, through front-loading industrialisation in the context of evolving technologies, infrastructure development, and regional integration.

This forum provides a space for development planners, experts, researchers, and stakeholders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) National Planning Entities (NPEs) to discuss, share, and harness knowledge directed towards realising an industrialised regional economy that utilises its natural resources sustainably.