62. 工发组织、非洲联盟委员会、非洲经委会、非洲联盟发展署和“非洲锦标”公私伙伴关系倡议于 2020 年 11 月共同举办了“非洲工业化周”。这项活动吸引了超过 2 500 名参与者虚拟参与，提供了一个平台，讨论对加强非洲大陆工业化(包括工业 4.0)具有重要战略意义的领域、区域价值链、贸易能力建设、可再生能源、农产品加工业、工业园区和制药工业等。其中一项主要成果是发表了一份宣言，该宣言旨在推动持续采取具体行动，迎接将于 2021 年 11 月举行的工业化和经济多样化非洲联盟首脑会议。工发组织组织了一次会外活动推出 2020 年版《竞争性工业绩效报告》，其中包括对非洲工业竞争力的广泛分析，并介绍了可持续发展目标 9 行业跟踪系统的应用。
62. UNIDO, the African Union Commission, ECA, the African Union Development Agency and the AfroChampions Initiative co-organized the Africa Industrialization Week in November 2020. With more than 2,500 virtual participants, the event provided a platform to discuss areas of strategic importance to enhancing the industrialization of the continent (including Industry 4.0), regional value -chains, trade capacity-building, renewable energy, agro-industry, industrial parks and the pharmaceutical industry. A major outcome was a declaration to sustain the momentum for concrete actions leading to the African Union Summit on Industrialization and Economic Diversification to be held in November 2021. UNIDO organized a side event to launch the 2020 edition of the Competitive Industrial Performance Report, which includes an extensive analysis of the industrial competitiveness of Africa and introduced the application of an industry tracker for Sustainable Development Goal 9.