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Support to Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones for COVID pandemic prevention and response: Enhancing industrial resilience in South Africa.

The research for this project comprised three outputs:

Work Output 1: Responses of Industrial Parks to COVID-19 and future pandemics
Work Output 2: Technical support to Industrial Parks on COVID-19 economic recovery plans
Work Output 3: Industrial Park standard operating procedures for disaster risks reduction and response

This document covers Work Output 1: Support Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in responding to COVID-19 through the development of national guidelines for Industrial Parks and SEZs on COVID-19 and future pandemic resilience responses.

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Work Output 2: Technical support to Industrial Parks on COVID-19 economic recovery plans
Work Output 3: Industrial Park standard operating procedures for disaster risks reduction and response

Support to Industrial Parks and Special Economic Zones for COVID pandemic prevention and response: Enhancing industrial resilience in South Africa.

The research for this project comprised three outputs:

Work Output 1: Responses of Industrial Parks to COVID-19 and future pandemics
Work Output 2: Technical support to Industrial Parks on COVID-19 economic recovery plans
Work Output 3: Industrial Park standard operating procedures for disaster risks reduction and response

This report covers Work Output 3: The development of Special Economic Zone/Industrial Park Standard Operating Procedures for Disaster Risks Reduction and Response

Copies of the other reports are available here:

Work Output 1: Responses of Industrial Parks to COVID-19 and future pandemics
Work Output 2: Technical support to Industrial Parks on COVID-19 economic recovery plans

Special economic zones (SEZs) emerged internationally as a policy to support industrial development in particular by providing for the introduction of targeted incentives and infrastructure. Internationally, despite their name, they are often effectively delinked from specific geographic areas in order to achieve these aims. This is especially useful where government wants to extend incentives to specific activities that lie outside designated zones, and where – as in South Africa – neither the provision of infrastructure nor spatial re-organisation of the economy are central aims of the SEZ programme.