The mandate of the SADC Liaison Office to the African Union is to assist the Secretariat in enhancing and strengthening the existing ties between the African Union Commission and SADC and with the other the Regional Economic Communities/Regional Mechanisms, represented at the African Union...
Directorates and Units
The Disaster Risk Reduction Unit (DRR Unit) has the mandate to develop effective frameworks and programmes to facilitate disaster risk management (DRM) coordination, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation in the region. The Unit business is aligned to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk...
The mandate of the SADC Gender Unit is to facilitate, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Revised SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, regional sectoral strategies on gender, the RISDP as well as other regional, continental and global gender instruments that SADC Member...
The mandate of the of Policy, Planning and Resources Mobilisation (PPRM) Directorate is to serve the SADC Secretariat as the lead structure on Strategy Development, Policy Analysis, Planning and Programming, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Strategic Partnerships. The Directorate also assists the...
The mandate of Social and Human Development and Special Programmes (SHD & SP) is to enhance human capabilities, utilisation and reduce vulnerability, eradicate human poverty and to attain the well-being of SADC citizens. SHD & SP Directorate ensures the availability of educated, skilled, healthy...
The Mandate of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security is to provide a foundation of Peace and Stability in the SADC Region as a prerequisite for the achievement of SADC objectives of socio-economic development, poverty eradication, and regional integration, as espoused in the SADC Vision 2050...
Infrastructure support towards Regional Integration has as its principal goal to achieve unified, efficient, seamless, integrated, cost-effective and quality trans-national infrastructure networks and services that will further deepen socio-economic development resulting in poverty alleviation and...
The overall goal of the Food Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate is to promote agricultural productivity and food security at household, national and regional levels, to promote efficient utilization and conservation of natural resources, and to promote the region as a single...
The mandate of the Industrial Development and Trade (IDT) Directorate is to facilitate trade liberalisation and integration; attainment of competitive and diversified industrial development and increased industrial investment and productivity that follows international best practice and complies...