The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers Meeting was held virtually on 29th May, 2020 and was chaired by Hon. Prof. Palamagamba John Kabudi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of the United Republic of…
Read More Tweet!The Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) met on 29th May, 2020 with a call for the region to turn the COVID-19 pandemic into an opportunity for emboldening industrialization and intra-trade in the Region.
Read More Tweet!The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed its position and support for a stable, peaceful and prosperous Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This position was reaffirmed during a virtual consultative meeting convened on 26th May 2020…
Read More Tweet!The Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold a virtual meeting on 29th May, 2020 to consider a range of regional development and cooperation issues, including taking a regional coordinated action to address the…
Read More Tweet!The Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan of SADC is a comprehensive 15–year strategic roadmap, which provides the strategic direction for achieving SADC’s long term social and economic goals. It also provides the SADC Secretariat and other SADC institutions with clear guidelines on SADC’s approved social and economic priorities and policies and therefore, enhancing their effectiveness in discharging their facilitating and coordinating role. It was approved by SADC Summit in 2003 and its effective implementation began in 2005.
The Revised Edition of the Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ (SIPO II) provides a review of the first edition of the Plan. Based on the objectives and common agenda of SADC, the Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ, first signed in 2004, provided general guidelines that spelt out specific implementation activities, in accordance with the objectives of the Protocol on Defense, Politics and Security Cooperation, and the strategies for their realisation, covering the Public Security, Political, Defence, and State security sectors.