The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is improving private sector participation in the medical value chains, thanks to the Support towards the Industrialisation and Productive Sectors (SIPS), a joint action aimed at assisting the Region’s…
Read More Tweet!The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Trade in Services has entered into force. This was announced by the Executive Secretary of SADC His Excellency Mr Elias M Magosi in his notification to the 16 Member States of SADC, in which he…
Read More Tweet!The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Committee of Ministers of Justice/Attorneys General met virtually on 25th January 2022 to consider, inter alia, a number of draft SADC legal instruments including draft amendments to the SADC Treaty, the…
Read More Tweet!The Chairperson of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Co-operation Organisation (SARPCCO), General Khehla John Sithole, who is also the Commissioner of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS), paid a courtesy call on the SADC Secretariat on 26…
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.