Directorate of Infrastructure and Services (I&S)

The Directorate of Infrastructure and Services seeks to improve the quality of infrastructure in the region, through infrastructure rehabilitation and modernization, with the view to improving access by all to basic infrastructure facilities, thereby reducing poverty, maximize the attainment of MDGs, improve trade on a cost effective platform and maximize regional competitiveness. It further seeks to improve access to water and sanitation, improve tourism, improve universal telecommunications access based on reduction of the digital divide, provide reliable, secure and cost effective energy network and thereby reduce the cost of doing business in the SADC region. Efforts continue to be made to promote private sector participation in the provision of infrastructure in an environmentally sustainable manner. In this regard, the following are the key functions of the Directorate and its affiliated bodies:

• Promote and monitor the implementation of regional protocols, policies and strategies on energy, transport and communication, tourism and water that contribute to poverty alleviation;
• Development, promotion and harmonization of Energy, Transport and Communications, Tourism and Water policies, strategies, programmes and projects;
• Promotion of an enabling environment for investment in infrastructure.
• Promotion of the development of physical and social infrastructures that contributes to poverty alleviation;
• Coordination and promotion of integrated Management of trans-boundary water, tourism, transport and communication and energy resources for regional integration and development;
• Promotion of capacity building and training programmes to enhance regional integration;
• Promotion of stakeholder participation through, among other things, gender mainstreaming and increased private sector investment and input as well as ease of implementation;

The directorate of Infrastructure and Services comprises of the following:

1. Communication and Meteorology Programmes
2. Energy Programmes
3. Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa
4. Transport Programmes
5. Water Programmes
   • Groundwater and Drought Management
   • SADC Water Sector ICP Collaboration Portal

Please contact the Director I&S or Programme Managers for further information on SADC Infrastructure and Services programmes.

Email: registry@sadc.int

Tel: +267 395 1863

Fax: +267 397 2848