Date Signed: 2004-01-01
Type: Memoranda of Understanding
Themes: Energy
Recognising the benefits of a regional power pool that would reduce investment and operating costs of electricity generation while maximising reliability, SADC passed the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) Inter-Utility Memorandum of Understanding on 7th December 1994. This Memorandum of Understanding establishes an official cooperation among SADC Member States and the extra-SADC nation of Zaire for sharing the costs and benefits of energy generation.
Date Signed: 2007-08-17
Type: Memoranda of Understanding
As the SADC Heads of State or Government decided to commission a new headquarters accommodation for SADC to be designed, financed, and constructed through a public-private partnership, one Member State of SADC was required to underwrite SADC’s financial obligations to the partnership.
Read MoreDate Signed: 2007-08-16
Type: Memoranda of Understanding
Themes: Themes, Politics, Defence & Security, Regional Peacekeeping
In 2007, SADC recognised a need for a collective self-defence system in line with the United Nations and African Union, dedicated to preserving peace and security throughout Southern Africa. Therefore, on 16th August 2007, it passed the Memorandum of Understanding Amongst the Southern African Development Community Member States on the Establishment of a Southern African Development Community Standby Brigade.
Read MoreDate Signed: 2002-08-08
Type: Memoranda of Understanding
Themes: Finance, Macro-Economic Convergence
The Member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) through the Memorandum of Understanding on Macroeconomic Convergance agree that in order to achieve and maintain macro-economic stability, they need to converge on stability-orientated economic policies implemented through a sound institutional structure and framework.
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