Impact assessment of a responsive technology in the production of infrastructural works: experience from Namibian labor-based program in the SME construction

Summary form only given as follows. This paper proposes a model to assess the impact of an alternative production technology management system, in the employment and income distribution, in countries with high unemployment and limited financial resources. The criteria for the responsive technology (RT) as an alternative production technology management system is outlined and the RT concept defined. The labour based construction method, as an alternative method as applied in the construction sector of the Namibian small and medium enterprise (SME), was used as an example