Through the delivery of its mandate of Regional Integration and Poverty Eradication, SADC operates a series of Services and Centres to provide governments, businesses, and citizen’s access to important operational services and information. SADCs services and centres focus in areas where access to regional information is most important, or where there was a gap in the provision of such information at a regional level.
Recognition of the importance of conserving plant genetic resources in Southern Africa led to the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Plant Genetic Resource Centre in 1989. The Plant Genetic Resource Centre is a non-profit, autonomous regional organisation, located in Lusaka, Zambia.
The Plant Genetic Resource Centre, which falls under the Food,…
As a result of a decision made by Summit, SADC aims to launch the Regional Poverty Observatory by September 2013 to provide adequate and meaningful monitoring services. The Regional Poverty Observatory will function as a forum where all the stakeholders working in poverty eradication at the regional and national levels meet to evaluate and monitor the implementation of the Regional Poverty…
The Southern African Development Community Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre (SADC RPTC) was founded in 1996. The initiative to establish the Centre begun in 1995 when the Governments of Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom jointly organised the first peacekeeping seminar, followed by a Peacekeeping Course for Battalion Commanders at the Zimbabwe Staff College in Harare, Zimbabwe. …
Given the need to anticipate consequences of the ever growing security challenges, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) saw the need to establish a Regional Early Warning System integrating inputs from National Early Warning Centres (NEWCs) and the Regional Early Warning Centre (REWC).
It is in this context that, on the recommendation of the Inter-State Defence and…
Meteorological Services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are currently faced with high demand for timely and quality information, services and products. However, inadequate observational station network due to lack of instruments, shortage of trained personnel, telecommunications systems, data processing and information dissemination facilities are major drawbacks. The…
The SADC Climate Services Centre provides operational, regional services for monitoring and predicting extremes in climate condition. The Centre develops and disseminates meteorological, environmental and hydro-meteorological products. The Centre’s products contribute to improved disaster risk management in the region, and help to ensure Member States are better prepared for weather and…
Accreditation is defined as the process of providing recognition to an organization for its competence in performing specific conformity assessment tasks. Conformity assessment tasks include testing, certification and inspection. Internationally agreed standards and accreditation play a key role in support of competitive markets and cross border trade. This is increasingly important as supply…