The Deputy Executive Secretary: Regional Integration is responsible for five Directorates that address SADC’s Regional Integration themes. These sectoral themes, all pursue the agenda of Regional Integration through their activities and programmes.
The Deputy Executive Secretary: Regional Integration is Eng. Joao Caholo. To find out more about Eng. Caholo, please refer to the relevant section under SADC Executive.
Directorates
Directorates under the Deputy Executive Secretary: Regional Integration are as follows:
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Trade Industry Finance & Investment
Facilitates and coordinates of the relaxation and/or removal of previous restrictions by governments on trade and finance through the establishment of a free trade area and single customs and monetary union in the region with the express intention of supporting economic growth.
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Infrastructure & Services
Focused on improving the quality of infrastructure in the region, through infrastructure rehabilitation and modernisation, improving access to basic infrastructure, and increasing trade on a cost effective platform and maximising regional competitiveness.
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Food Agriculture & Natural Resources
Supporting initiatives to improve food availability, access, safety and nutritional value; disaster preparedness for food security; equitable and sustainable use of the environment and natural resources; and strengthening institutional frameworks and capacity building.
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Social & Human Development & Special Programmes
Supporting the development of SADC human capital to its fullest potential as an essential step towards tackling the socio-economic challenges facing the region.
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Policy Planning & Resource Mobilisation
Serves as a source of policy analysis and advice to support decision making within in the SADC Institution by coordinating all the planning, resource mobilisation, research and development, and monitoring and evaluation functions of the SADC Secretariat.
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