Strategic Influence
Our focus areas are broadly defined across work domains
We understand the complex economic, political and administrative landscape of Africa and are committed to delivering high-quality, value-adding strategic advice and expertise. UBU's services are designed around the priorities of the governments, communities and businesses we work with.
Advanced
Manufacturing
Strategy and Policy Development
The Solidarity Economy
The Labour Market Archive (LMA)
Key Figures
Countries with active programmes
Years of continental advisory work
Sectors actively influenced
Strategic engagements delivered
Advanced Manufacturing
- Establishing robust Value Chain Networks (VCNs) that support inclusive growth and development.
- Enabling mass production at scale, with exacting standards and tolerances.
- Advancing technology-intensive production, including significant mechanisation and managed environmental impacts.
- Generating strong cross-sectoral multiplier effects across the economy.
Strategy and Policy Development
- Shaping policies that drive structural change in line with defined strategic objectives.
- Advancing alignment between the Solidarity Economy and deeper integration of African political economies to support shared prosperity.
- Leveraging access to experienced policymakers, administrators, and analysts.
- Engaging key collective structures, including trade unions.
The Solidarity Economy
- Driving actions that enable localised economic growth.
- Promoting community development through investment rather than extraction
- Strengthening marginalised economies and supporting transitions to value-adding activities through sustainable, people-centred growth.
- Mobilising well-directed collective action to address poverty and underdevelopment.
The Labour Market Archive (LMA)
- Researching and analysing the concrete benefits of collective action.
- Documenting collective endeavours central to the Solidarity Economy.
- Capturing and disseminating lessons from collective action during South Africa’s democratic transition to inform and inspire future initiatives.
- Advancing the Labour Market Archive (LMA) toward a pilot implementation phase.