Roadmap for a Local Content Strategy

13 February 2025
Posted by: Trudi Stevens
Category: energy excellence

This roadmap outlines the key steps for developing a local content strategy that ensures long-term economic benefits across multiple sectors, not just a select few.

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Aim

Action

Economic development

Support local industries to comply with international standards through collaboration with international companies.
Facilitate knowledge-sharing and access to global supply chains.
Provide financial and regulatory incentives for businesses to invest locally.

Create a partnership

International companies – describe the standards and accreditation they require for sub contractors; provide a named person to guide and evaluate efforts by local industries.
Chamber of Commerce – registers local businesses for participation; consults with international companies to gather information and knowledge to share with participants; evaluates and registers organisations that offer advice and guidance to local businesses.
Government – provides financing for local businesses to obtain consultancy advice and support in achieving accreditation.

Job creation

Encourage hiring of local workers by offering tax breaks and incentives.
Develop vocational training programs linked to industry needs.
Establish partnerships between businesses and educational institutions for hands-on learning opportunities.

Create an employment nexus

International companies and local supply chain businesses – provide updated lists of jobs that are current and needed in the next 12 months; provide a scheme whereby qualified people can gain agreed work experience before applying for jobs.
Colleges, Universities and private training providers – create programmes that provide employability training, sector-specific English language courses.
Chambers of Commerce and Trade Unions – agree with international companies and local supply chain businesses the type and range of work experience available, the remuneration for the work experience and the length of the work experience; interview and select applicants for the work experience scheme; provide safeguarding monitoring.
Government – provides a contribution to stipend paid to the work experience applicants.

Capacity building

Promote knowledge transfer by integrating international expertise into local education systems.
Equip schools and training centres with modern resources and technology.
Provide work experience opportunities for educators to align teaching with industry needs.

Create a vocational education nexus

International companies and local supply chain businesses – provide opportunities for vocational tutors and assessors to spend short periods of time shadowing technicians and managers in their businesses, at no cost to the business; provide agreed data and information, case studies and research, for analysis in the creation of learning materials; lend or lease access to equipment, laboratories and machinery to support vocational training and education; facilitate visits by students in schools, colleges and universities; facilitate short work experience visits by students.
Schools, Colleges, Universities and private training providers – create programmes that provide vocational training and education, including as part of the school curriculum; require vocational tutors, teachers and trainers to spend an agreed amount of hours on shadowing placements with businesses; facilitate workplace visits by students; monitor safeguarding during visits and shadowing placement.
Chambers of Commerce and Trade Unions – analyse the impact, benefit and continuous improvement of tutor and students visits and work experience; feedback to the business and educational institutions their findings.
Government – provides a National Vocational Framework for vocational qualifications; works with the Chamber of Commerce to create Occupational Profiles.

Value addition

Build industrial parks with affordable access to water and energy to stimulate local enterprise growth.
Encourage private sector participation in traditionally government-run services such as waste management and energy generation.
Implement policies that ensure locally extracted resources contribute to local processing industries.

Create an industrial policy that incorporates value addition into operating licences to all business, local and international

International companies and local supply chain businesses – liaise with Government to provide information on specific requirements such as temperature-controlled storage, secure internet access and storage, warehousing etc;
Schools, Colleges, Universities and private training providers – have a local shared education presence (office) to provide a direct communication link to businesses providing support to vocational and job programmes.
Government – liaise with local businesses and educational institutions to create opportunities in the construction of the industrial parks.

- Enable to capacity of local businesses to meet the international standards in the construction of the industrial parks; liaise with the Chambers of Commerce and educational institutions to build this capacity.
- Create enabling policies to ensure locally extracted resources contribute to local processing industries and integrate with other policies on tourism, sustainability and environment protection.

Economic Diversification

Encourage sectoral diversification beyond resource extraction, with a focus on emerging industries.
Update education curricula to reflect evolving economic needs and skills.
Open government procurement processes to innovative local providers.

In partnership between Government, international and local businesses and education providers.

Community development

Invest in social infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, and housing to strengthen public services.
Utilise construction projects to create employment and training opportunities for underprivileged communities.
Establish a Youth Pioneering organisation to provide work experience in remote schools and infrastructure projects.

In partnership between Government, international and local businesses, education providers and local communities.

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