PANEL: Local Content : Exploring Regional Cooperation Avenues to Incentivise Foreign Investments and Maximise Local Value

As local content requirements become more stringent, African countries must ensure that regulations strike an appropriate balance between building local-industry capacity and reducing costs without deterring foreign investments. In this conundrum, regional cooperation offers attractive opportunities for knowledge sharing, technology transfers and the sharing of best practices. We bring together African services companies and representatives from some of the continent's most active services associations to discuss the right balance between protecting and growing local industries while remaining attractive to foreign investments across the value-chain.