Recent News
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9 Apr, 2013Water: A Source of Peace in SADC
In the Southern African Development Community (SADC), water is seen as a source of peace rather than conflict. This was the key message emphasized by SADC’s Director of Infrastructure and Services Mr. Remigious Makumbe during a three-day workshop to Promote Cooperation and Conflict Prevention in Transboundary Water Resources held from February 25-27, 2013 in Phakalane, Botswana.
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8 Apr, 2013A SADC Citizen Appointed at AU Commission
The African Union Commission appointed Dr Anthony Mothae Maruping as the new Commissioner of Economic Affairs at the African Union Commission (AUC).Dr Maruping was elected during the 20th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2013.Before this appointment, Dr. Maruping was representing Lesotho in Geneva, where he went to after serving as the Executive Director at the Macro-Economic and Financial Management Institute of Eastern and Southern Africa, which seeks to contribute towards the improvement of governance in the key areas of macroeconomic and financial management in the public sector at policy making and senior official levels.
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3 Apr, 2013DRC Peace and Security Framework Signed
A Peace and Security Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Region that accommodates the concerns of all stakeholders towards the restoration of peace in the eastern part of the is now in place. It was signed on February 24, 2013 by the DRC, its neighbours in the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with the United Nations and the African Union as its guarantors.
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3 Apr, 2013SADC Ministers Condemn Violence Against Women and Girls
SADC Ministers responsible for Gender and Women’s Affairs meeting in Maputo, Mozambique on February 14, 2013 condemned the ongoing sexual violence against women, specifically rape, which tends to be used as a weapon of war during armed and post conflict, especially in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Documents & Publications
SADC Treaty (1992)
The SADC Treaty is the founding document for the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). In pursuance of the principles of Towards a Southern African Development Community, a declaration was made by the Heads of State or Government of Southern Africa, at Windhoek, Namibia, in August 1992 affirming their commitment to establish a Development Community in the region.
Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan
The Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan of SADC is a comprehensive 15–year strategic roadmap, which provides the strategic direction for achieving SADC’s long term social and economic goals. It also provides the SADC Secretariat and other SADC institutions with clear guidelines on SADC’s approved social and economic priorities and policies and therefore, enhancing their effectiveness in discharging their facilitating and coordinating role. It was approved by SADC Summit in 2003 and its effective implementation began in 2005.
The Harmonised Strategic Indicative Development Plan for the Organ II
The Harmonised Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ also referred to as the SIPO II provides a review of the first edition of the Plan reflecting on the milestones and challenges of implementation faced by Member States and other implementing stakeholders. On the whole there has been substantial progress in the SADC region on issues related to political governance, the observation of elections, the establishment of the SADC Electoral Advisory Council (SEAC) and the mediation units. Challenges still remain in the areas of climate change, economic recession, and unconstitutional change of governments, growing vulnerability of national borders, illicit mining and so forth.