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objective is to expand regional integration, Cooperation with Germany
increase economic growth and reduce The SADC Secretariat and the Government
poverty through trade facilitation, of the Federal Republic of Germany on 11
promotion of competitive and diversified June 2021 held bilateral negotiations on
industrial development, investment development cooperation and agreed on
promotion, and enhancement of market and priority areas to include:
economic integration. • Regional Economic Integration;
Programmes supporting SADC regional • Transboundary Water Management;
integration account for €189.6 million, of • Transboundary Natural Resource
which €118 million is directly targeting the Management and Resilience to
regional economic integration agenda. The Climate Change;
additional EU cooperation with SADC is • Disaster Risk Management; and
aimed at fostering peace, regional stability, Strengthening National-Regional
democratic governance and accountability Linkages (SNRL); and
across the region; increasing capacity • Support towards the Study and Expert
building; and addressing climate change Fund that will support emerging
issues. strategic matters.
Following the successful commitment Germany committed an additional
of all Contribution Agreements under the support of €20 million for both technical
Sub-Regional Envelope of the 11th EDF and financial cooperation.
Regional Indicative Programme (RIP) in the The agreed areas of cooperation are
Financial Year 2019/20, the SADC aligned and respond to SADC priorities
Secretariat has proceeded with the outlined in the SADC’s Vision 2050 and the
implementation of various programmes, RISDP 2020-2030, and are geared towards
including programmes under the achieving SADC’s main objective of
Infrastructure Envelope and the Intra-ACP promoting sustainable economic growth,
Strategy Paper and Indicative Programme. socio-economic development, and poverty
The Secretariat further held bilateral eradication.
sector consultations with the EU Delegation In addition, Germany provided support 95
and provided technical comments on the to the SADC Secretariat and SADC Member
priorities and components identified in the States with additional measures for the
2021-2027 Multiannual Indicative prevention and management of the negative
Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa (MIP effects of COVID-19 in the SADC region,
SSA) and continued to engage bilaterally through interventions covering a number of
with the EU and other EU Member States to sectors that are in line with SADC priorities
maintain the momentum of development and the aforementioned areas of focus of
cooperation. SADC-Germany Cooperation.

Trilateral Engagement with Germany, SADC-Russia Cooperation
France and EU Cooperation between SADC and the
The Secretariat held trilateral engagements Russian Federation is based on the
with the Embassies of Germany, France and implementation of the MoU between the
EU on 31 August 2020 to exchange Government of the Russian Federation and
technical views on the proposed priorities the SADC in the Area of Military-Technical
of the post-2020 Joint Africa-EU Strategy. Cooperation signed in July 2018, and the
The Secretariat further held bilateral
meetings with the Senior Inspector and
Managing Director for Africa at the
European External Action Service (EEAS)
on 9 February 2021 and 25 February 2021
and discussed development cooperation
issues that are of mutual interest to both
SADC and the EU, including issues on peace
and security, political dialogue and post-
2020 programming of regional cooperation,
and broadly to ascertain how the existing
development cooperation can be enhanced
for a more impactful partnership.