The SADC Executive Secretary H.E. Dr. Stergomena Lawrence Tax paid a courtesy call on the Minister of External Relations of the Republic of Angola Honourable Dr. George Rebelo Pinto Chikoti in Luanda on January 13th 2014
Read More Tweet!The Chairpersons of SADC and the ICGLR, Presidents Dr. Joyce Banda and Yoweri Museveni on Thursday, 12th December 2013 signed a communiqué as guarantors to a peace process in eastern DRC. The communiqué was signed in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya.
Read More Tweet!SADC, says Climate Change in the region not only poses an environmental challenge but has serious economic and development implications with potentially disastrous human consequences. A Workshop on climate change took place at Gaborone Sun Hotel, from…
Read More Tweet!Message of condolence by the SADC Chairperson on behalf of the SADC Region to the Government, People of South Africa and the Mandela Family on the passing away of President Nelson Mandela
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.