The overarching guiding frameworks for industrial development and industrialization in Southern Africa are provided in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap (2015-2063) adopted in April 2015 and its attendant Costed Implementation Plan (2015-2030) of 2017 and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) Industrial Policy adopted in 2015, its Industrialization Strategy (2017-2026) adopted in 2017 and the Draft Action Plan of 2019. Both regional frameworks are aligned to continental development policy frameworks including: the Africa Industrial Development Action Plan, the Africa Mining Vision, Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, the Program on Infrastructure Development for Africa, and are anchored on the aspirations and priorities of Agenda 2063, Agenda 2030 and the African Continental Free Trade Area. In line with regional industrial aspirations elaborated in these frameworks, all member States of the SADC and COMESA regions have recently prioritized accelerating industrialization and are seized with developing national industrialization policies, frameworks and strategies to anchor the agenda. The national processes are at different stages in the various member States and are, in the majority, neither harmonized amongst themselves nor in synergy. This project aims to accelerate the pace of industrial development and economic integration in Southern Africa by enhancing the capacity of regional member States to develop and implement harmonized natural-resource based industrialization policies, frameworks and strategies aligned to the regional frameworks to anchor development and the growth of regional value chains as drivers of economic transformation in the Southern African region. This objective is to be realized through: 1) Technical support to regional member States in the development of harmonized natural-resources-based industrialization policies, legal and regulatory frameworks aligned to the SADC and COMESA aspirations as part of the process of deepening regional integration 2) Capacity building for the development of effective national implementation plans for the industrialization policies and strategies and 3) support to the active participation of the private sector and micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) in industrialization and value chains development. Overall, the project will help member States address the gaps between the national and regional industrialization frameworks, develop the requisite implementation frameworks and capacities while facilitating policy harmonization across the region.