UAE’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG): Implementation efforts for the SDG are coordinated by the Ministry of Economy
Industrial value is added as a proportion of GDP and the per capita is the indicator used to track progress towards such SDG goal. UAE's manufacturing value addition as a share of GDP rose from 14% to 16% between 2015 and 2017. This was the outcome of a concentrated and focused industrial strategy made up of 10 programs and 39 projects that were controlled by next decades manufacturing policies. The plan is consistent with the Sustainable Growth Plan as well as the UAE Vision 2021.
Commerce to Manufacturing: The plan tries to convert a portion of trade into local industry and more closely link manufacturing with export growth.
Commodities to Technology: Describes how expertise has spread from the UAE's robust commodity sectors (such as gold and aluminium) and how value chains have been upgraded to transition from simply commodity commerce to technologies.
Vertical to Horizontal: The strategy is focused on building the foundation for numerous sectors by enhancing public-private coordination and upgrading enabling factors rather than "picking winners" (e.g. education, technology)
Value Chains and Free Zones: Free Zones are incorporated into local value chains by developing a "common language" (e.g., standards) to foster knowledge links and spill overs and by ensuring transparency across demand and supply (e.g., supplier databases).
By 2030, encourage inclusive and sustainable industrialisation
"Manufacturing employment as a share of total employment" is an SDG target indicator.
The UAE is adopting a manufacture 4.0 skills plan centred on cross-domain capabilities, vocational training in specific manufacturing sectors, and SME-FDI linkage initiatives in order to meet this objective. The UAE has concentrated on creating future job classifications and skill sets for every ISCO level. This work is currently assisting a more thorough effort to close the skill shortage that will promote SDG 9.2.
The UAE will concentrate on "Next Generation Education" going forwards by offering Education 4.0 curricula at all levels, beginning with primary education (for example, STEM), secondary education (for example, 3D design, software), tertiary (for example, autonomous driving law), and VET (e.g. cyber-physical manufacturing). Together with the public and commercial sectors, the syllabus will be created.
Improve the integration of small-scale industrial and other businesses into entire value chain and marketplaces, as well as their access to financial services, especially in emerging nations.
The "proportion share of small-scale businesses in overall industrial value added" is used to forecast data towards this SDG target.
The UAE introduced a new set of governmental incentives for young creative enterprises that cover industrial companies with a bigger percentage of R&D in order to solve this. The idea of youthful, innovative businesses seeks to support both industrial and innovative SMEs. Over 18 industry and innovation-based metrics are being impacted by the effort on a national level, and they are all moving in the direction of SDG 9.3.
