This portion of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) website is dedicated to providing access to all publically available SADC Documents and Publications. It also provides access to information about the SADC Secretariat Library Services.
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Code of Conduct Child Labour
Date Signed: 2000-08-01
Type: Documents & Publications, Regional Codes & Policies, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports
Themes: Social & Human Development, Employment & Labour, Orphans, Vulnerable Children & Youth
Following an assessment requests by the SADC Employment and Labour Sector (ELS), Committee of Ministers and Social Partners at their Annual Meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, April, 1996 the International Labour Organisation (ILO) conducted a Study on the magnitude of Child Labour in the Region. The findings of the Study revealed that data on Child Labour was scarce and that most of the Member States had not adopted comprehensive national strategies to combat Child Labour.
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Supplement to BioSafety Protocol
Entry Into Force: 2003-09-11
Date Signed: 2000-01-29
Type: Documents & Publications, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports
Themes: Agriculture & Food Security, Natural Resources, Transfrontier Conservation Areas, Forests, Wildlife, Water
Following the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity established a working group to formalise rules and procedures for liability and compensation over issues involving living modified organisms. This working group then established the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted in 2010.
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Declaration on Productivity (1999)
Date Signed: 1999-08-18
Type: Documents & Publications, Declarations
Themes: Economic Development
As economic cooperation among Member States is central to SADC’s mission, the low levels of productivity throughout the region are disconcerting. Poor economic growth, investment, and employment can have negative impacts on a region’s social and economic development. In order to increase productivity in the region, SADC passed its Declaration on Productivity in the Southern African Development Community on 18th August 1999.
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