The summit endeavors to support Botswana in her eort to address the challenge of economic diversication and growth, citizen
economic empowerment and employment creation through promoting and supporting the growth of local manufacturing
capacity.

The Manufacturing Summit will become an annual gathering of stakeholders from the public and private sectors accross the
country to take stock of the performance of the manufacturing sector, discuss current developments and concerns, and consider
ways to address them.

The summit will be aconducted consistently with the implementation of the economic inclusion Act, a local empoerment
legislation which focuses on supporting and building competitive and innovative industries in the country and strengthening their
linkages in national and regional production networks and global value chains