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OVERVIEW OF

RISDP 2020-2030

The RISDP 2020–2030 is a comprehensive 10-year
Th e RIS D P 2020–2030 i s a c o m p r e h e n s i v e 1 0 - y e a r
development plan that shows how SADC can advance
development plan that shows how SADC can advance
toward its Vision 2050 over the next decade.
The SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development
Plan (RISDP) 2020-2030 is the first phase of an
implementation framework for the SADC Vision 2050,
which envisages “a peaceful, inclusive, competitive, middle-
to high-income industrialised region, where all citizens enjoy increase value-addition in selected priority sectors, including
sustainable economic well-being, justice, and freedom.” agro-processing, mineral beneficiation, and pharmaceuticals
This Vision 2050 is grounded in SADC’s original in the short to medium term. In the long term, the objective
Vision of “a common future, a future in a regional was to increase the region’s manufacturing capacity,
community that will ensure economic wellbeing, competitiveness, and capacity to trade and hence achieve
improvement of the standards of living and quality of life, sustainable economic transformation.
freedom and social justice and peace and security for the Informed by the achievements and lessons of the
peoples of Southern Africa.” previous strategy, the RISDP 2020–2030 sets out a
The aspirations enunciated in the SADC Vision 2050 are comprehensive 10-year development agenda.
also aligned to key global and continental frameworks such In a departure from past practice, the RISDP 2020–2030
as the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable brings together issues previously presented separately under
Development and the African Union’s (AU) Agenda 2063 – the Revised RISDP and the Strategic Indicative Plan for the
The Africa We Want. Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security Cooperation
The RISDP 2020-2030 was adopted by the 40th SADC (SIPO).
Summit of Heads of State and Government hosted virtually The inclusion of peace, security, and governance matters
by Mozambique in August 2020 and is the result of a in the RISDP 2020–2030 is an innovation that recognises
comprehensive consultative process aimed at advancing their foundational importance to ensuring the necessary
regional integration in southern Africa. preconditions for achieving the other priorities.
The achievements made in the previous RISDP provide
The strategic framework informing the RISDP 2020–
46 2030 includes a commitment to uphold the core principles a solid platform for the RISDP 2020–2030, with its
of SADC, which are: foundational pillar, three core pillars, and cross-cutting issues,
v Sovereign equality of all Member States; altogether cascading to 24 strategic objectives and 48 key
v Solidarity, peace and security; outcomes with the shared ambition of contributing towards
v Human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; SADC Vision 2050.
v Equity, balance, and mutual benefit; and The RISDP 2020–2030 thus covers five strategic priority
v Peaceful settlement of disputes. areas as follows:
The RISDP 2020–2030 resolves to leverage areas of • The Foundation Peace, Security, and Good
excellence and implement priorities “to achieve sustainable Governance
and inclusive socio-economic development, through good • Pillar I Industrial Development and
governance and durable peace and security in the region, as Market Integration
well as the removal of all barriers to deeper integration; and • Pillar II Infrastructure Development in
guided by the purposes and principles of the SADC Treaty Support of Regional Integration
and Agenda.” • Pillar III Social and Human Capital
In line with the SADC Treaty’s quest for wider and Development
deeper regional economic integration and development, the • Crosscutting Issuesof Gender, Youth,
Mission Statement seeks to: Environment and Climate Change, and Disaster
• Create a conducive environment to foster regional Risk Management.
cooperation and integration;
• Accelerate the mobilisation of resources from within Strategic Management of RISDP 2020–2030
the community and external sources; In each of these priority areas, the RISDP provides strategic
• Improve implementation of SADC policies and guidance in the form of actions, interventions, targets, and
programmes; timelines that if implemented and met, will further deepen
• Strengthen compliance by Member States through integration in SADC.
the implementation of effective compliance The priority area of Strategic Management of RISDP
monitoring and assurance mechanisms; and 2020–2030 is important, as it is an acknowledgement that
• Magnify visibility and awareness as a means to trigger SADC needs to ensure progress in implementation to achieve
the participation of SADC citizens in driving the its regional integration agenda. This is closely linked to and
regional integration agenda. informed by the Comprehensive Institutional Review of
The main tenet of the previous regional plan, the Revised SADC that was carried out in parallel to the development of
RISDP 2015–2020, was to promote regional value chains and the RISDP.