The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region is fairly stable and peaceful, despite some isolated challenges, particularly the terrorist insurgency in Cabo Delgado province of the Republic of Mozambique which has killed many people and…
Read More Tweet!The Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), His Excellency Mr. Elias M Magosi, says he has embarked on paying courtesy calls on Heads of State and Government of SADC Member States to apprise them on the operations of the…
Read More Tweet!The Southern African Development Community (SADC) notes with great sorrow and sadness the devastating loss of lives and property that the region has suffered following the disaster events emanating from torrential rains and floods in Kwazulu Natal, and…
Read More Tweet!The climate smart agriculture project in Zambia has begun to bear fruit with close to 5 000 people in Mufumbwe District in the north-western parts of the country benefitting from tomatoes, green vegetables, egg plants, ginger, garlic, beans, groundnuts,…
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.