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The Regional Poverty Reduction Framework
Date Signed: 2008-04-01
Type: Documents & Publications, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports
Themes: Poverty Eradication & Policy Dialogue
The Regional Poverty Reduction Framework seeks to elaborate and translate SADC’s Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan priority intervention area on poverty eradication into an implementation framework. This has the effect of fine-tuning the regional agenda for poverty eradication and provides a bridge to align national poverty reduction strategies to regional interventions.
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SADC Multi-country Agricultural Productivity Programme (MAPP) Document
Date Signed: 2008-04-01
Type: Documents & Publications, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports
Agriculture in the SADC region is the primary source of subsistence, employment and income
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for 61 percent of the peoples of the region. Despite a diversified natural resource base, overall
agricultural growth and productivity have remained low over the past twenty years. The urgent
implementation of broad-based programmes to reverse the overall decline in the productivity of
the agriculture sector is a central priority in setting SADC Member States on the path of fast
economic growth and poverty reduction. The diversity of the region’s farming and livelihood
systems presents great challenges to policymakers in formulating sound agriculture development
strategies. But, even given this diversity, many countries in the region share similar problems
and opportunities. Cooperation in some of these key areas can yield significant benefits – as can
greater economic integration by taking advantage of natural comparative advantages. -
SADC Regional Biodiversity Strategy
Date Signed: 2008-02-01
Type: Documents & Publications, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports
Issues: Environment & Sustainable Development
Southern Africa is home to abundant biodiversity, which contributes to the livelihoods of many people in the region. Therefore, this biodiversity is central to SADC’s objective of improving socioeconomic development. In order to foster this biodiversity in the face of regional underdevelopment and environmental challenges, SADC has devised a Regional Biodiversity Strategy.
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