ABBREVIATIONS

AAIFAIG: Africa Infrastructure Fund
ACP: African, Caribbean and Pacific
ADB: African Development Bank
AGOA: Africa Growth Opportunity Act
ALCOM: Aquaculture for Local Community Programme
ASCAS: Accumulating Savings and Credit Associations
ASCCI: Association of SADC Chambers of Commerce and Industry
ASEAN: Association of South East Asian Nations
AU: African Union

BENEFIT: Benguela Environmental and Fisheries Interaction and Training Programme
BIS: Bank for International Settlements
BLNS: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland
BOD: Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BOT: Build-Operate-Transfer or Build-Own-Transfer

CARICOM: Caribbean Common Market
CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity
CBI: Cross Border Initiative
CCBG: Committee of Central Bank Governors
CEPGL: Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries
CIS: Culture, Information and Sport
CISNA: Committee on Insurance, Securities and Non-banking Financial Authorities
CITES: International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species
CMT: Committee of Ministers of Trade
COMESA: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
CPPPs: Community-Public-Private Partnerships
CSAS: Co-operative Savings Associations
CSOs: Civil Society Organisations
CUs: Customs Unions

DAC: Development Assistance Committee
DBSA: Development Bank of Southern Africa
DFIs: Development Finance Institutions
DFID: Department for International Development
DFRC: Development Finance Resource Centre
DRC: Democratic Republic of Congo

EAC: East African Community
EAIF: Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund
ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States
ECSAFA: Eastern, Central and Southern African Federation of Accountants
ELM: Environment and Land Management
ELS: Environment and Land Sector
ELS-SCU: Environment and Land Sector-Sector Co-ordinating Unit
EPAs: Economic Partnership Agreements
EU: European Union

FAO: Food and Agricultural Organisation
FANR: Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
FDI: Foreign Direct Investment
FISCU: Finance and Investment Sector Co-ordinating Unit
FPI: Foreign Portfolio Investment
FTA: Free Trade Area

GAD: Gender and Development
GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
G8: Group of Eight
GDI: Gross Domestic Investment
GDP: Gross Domestic Product
GDS: Gross Domestic Savings
GMOs: Genetically Modified Organisms
GNP: Gross National Product
GNS: Gross National Savings
GPA: Global Programme on HIV and AIDS

HDI: Human Development Index
HIPC: Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
HIV: and AIDS Human Immune-Deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
HPI: Human Poverty Index
HSPFD: Health Sector Policy Framework Document

IA: Implementing Agents
ICM: Integrated Committee of Ministers
ICPs: International Co-operating Partners
ICT: Information and Communications Technology
IDC: Industrial Development Corporation
IEC: Information, Education and Communication
IFPRI: International Food Policy Research Institute
IMF: International Monetary Fund
IMR: Infant Mortality Rate
IOC: Indian Ocean Council
IPAs: Investment Promotion Agencies
IPOs: Initial Public Offering
IR & D: Industrial Research and Development
IS: Infrastructure and Services
IT: Info-communication Technology

LDCs: Least Developed Countries

MBI: Management By-In
MBO: Management By-Out
M & E: Monitoring and Evaluation
MERCOSUR: Southern Cone Common Market
MMA: Multilateral Monetary Area
MMTZ: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
MVA: Manufacturing Value Added

NAFTA: North American Free Trade Area
NARS: National Agricultural Research Systems
NCPs: National Contact Points
NEPAD: New Partnership for Africa's Development
NGOs: Non-governmental Organisations
NPV: Net Present Value
NSOs: National Statistical Offices
NTBs: Non-Tariff Barriers

OAU: Organisation of African Unity
ODA: Official Development Assistance
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

POPs: Persistent Organic Polluntants
PPP: Purchasing Parity Power
PPPs: Public-Private Sector Partnerships
PSC: Project Steering Committee
PRSP: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
PTA: Preferential Trade Area

RBO: River Basin Management Organisations
R & D: Research and Developmen
RECs: Regional Economic Communities
RERA: Regional Regulatory Association
RETOSA: Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa
RIFFR: egional Integration Facilitation Forum
RISDP: Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan
RPA: Regional Programme of Action
RSA: Republic of South Africa
RSAP: Regional Strategic Action Plan for Integrated Water Resources Management and Development in the SADC Region
RTTC: Regional Tsetse and Trypanosomias Control Centre

SABA: Southern African Broadcasting Association
SACU: Southern African Customs Union
SADC: Southern African Development Community
SADC-FTA: SADC Free Trade Agreement
SADCC: Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference
SAPs: Structural Adjustment Programmes
SAPP: Southern African Power Pool
SCAs: Savings and Credit Associations
SCUs: Sector Co-ordinating Units
S & D: Special and Differential
SDIs: Spatial Development Initiatives
SEPAC: Small Enterprise Promotion Advisory Council
SHDSP: Social and Human Development and Special Programmes
SITCD: SADC Industry and Trade Co-ordination Division
SMEs: Small and Medium Scale Enterprises
SNC: SADC National Committee
SPA: SADC Programme of Action
SPS: Sanitary and Phytosanitary
SRDCP: SADC Regional Drug Control Programme
SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa
S & T: Science and Technology
STDs: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
STOs: Senior Treasury Officials
STP: SADC Trade Protocol
SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

TB: Tuberclosis
TCM: Transport, Communications and Meteorologfy
TFCAs: Transfrontier Conservation Areas
TIFI: Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment
TNF: Trade Negotiating Forum

UN: United Nations
UNAIDS: United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS
UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNESCO: United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNIVISA: Universal Visa
USD: United States Dollar

WB: World Bank
WTO: World Trade Organisation

ZAR: South African Rand