Can Africa actually make the goods it wants to trade? The Industrialization Readiness Assessment measures industrial capacity at the cluster level across 7 priority sectors — because you can't export what you can't produce.
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“You cannot trade what you do not produce. And you cannot produce competitively what you do not measure. This assessment provides the measurement that turns Africa's industrialization ambition into a concrete, actionable roadmap.”— AIDA Assessment Framework, AUDA-NEPAD
Country focal point selects an AIDA sector cluster and assessment year to begin
Invite sector experts via email with secure shareable links — full sector or section-scoped access
Each indicator is scored High / Medium / Low using detailed rubric descriptions with optional notes
Responses are aggregated into section and overall readiness scores with visual dashboards
62 indicators across 8 sections · GEN
59 indicators across 8 sections · TXT
59 indicators across 9 sections · PHA
49 indicators across 6 sections · FP
52 indicators across 6 sections · CHM
46 indicators across 6 sections · FNB
53 indicators across 6 sections · AGP
59 indicators across 6 sections · FSH
45 indicators across 6 sections · MIN
43 indicators across 6 sections · AGR
44 indicators across 6 sections · MFG
The country demonstrates strong capability in this area. Systems, infrastructure, or capacity are well-established and functioning effectively.
The country has partial capability. Some elements are in place but significant gaps remain that limit effectiveness or competitiveness.
The country has minimal or no capability. Foundational investment, policy reform, or capacity building is required before progress is possible.
Consider an indicator: “Availability of GMP-certified pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities”
Multiple stakeholders score the same indicator independently. Their responses are aggregated and consolidated by the assessment owner to produce the official score.
Assessment owners generate secure invitation links and send them to stakeholders via the built-in email system. Each link is unique to the stakeholder and tracks their participation status.
Stakeholders can be given access to the entire sector or just a specific section. This means a workforce expert only sees workforce-related indicators, not the entire assessment.
Assessment owners see who has started, who has completed, and what percentage of indicators have been answered — all in real-time through the Stakeholder Engagement Planner.
When multiple stakeholders score the same indicators, the assessment owner reviews all inputs and consolidates them into the official assessment score, ensuring balanced and evidence-based results.
Visual dashboard with per-section scores, indicator breakdowns, and High/Medium/Low distribution across all assessed areas
Aggregated stakeholder responses with consensus analysis showing where experts agree and where assessments diverge
Automatic identification of the lowest-scoring sections — the critical bottlenecks that need priority investment
Industrial readiness scores feed into the unified trade readiness framework alongside Future Impact and Enabling Environment assessments
Assessment results can be shared with external stakeholders, partners, and investors via secure links with configurable access levels
Exportable country-level industrialization profiles summarizing readiness across all assessed sectors for policy guidance
A government that announces “we will become a pharmaceutical hub” needs to know: do we have GMP-certified facilities? Trained pharmacists? Quality testing labs? The cluster assessment answers all of these questions with sector-specific readiness data.
An investor considering a garment factory needs reliable data on workforce skills, input availability, and energy costs. A country with a sector cluster assessment can present independently verified data on exactly what exists and what's missing.
Future Impact identifies what to export. Enabling Environment confirms border infrastructure. But can the country actually produce at competitive quality and scale? This assessment closes the loop by measuring whether industrial capacity matches trade ambition.
By bringing together multiple sector stakeholders — government, industry, academia — the assessment ensures that readiness scores reflect diverse perspectives, not just one office's view of the sector.
See cluster readiness scores across African countries and understand where manufacturing capacity is building.