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Current Functions of Directorates and Units Table 3.3

Directorate/ Unit Responsible to Functions

Disaster Risk Deputy Executive • Coordinates disaster risk reduction activities and programmes within the
Reduction Unit Secretary for Regional SADC region.
Integration • Coordinates the implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR.
• Promotes and support the mainstreaming of DRR into development
policies and programmes of member states.

Gender Unit Executive Secretary • Facilitates, coordinates, monitors and evaluates implementation of the
SADC Protocol on Gender and Development and all sector, regional,
continental and global instruments and policies.
• Spearheads mainstreaming of gender in regional initiatives.

Conference Services Director of Human • Supports SADC policy and other meetings with documentation, translation,
Unit Resources and interpretation services, conference facilities and scheduling of meetings.
Administration

Procurement Unit Executive Secretary • Ensures timely acquisition of goods, services and works.
• Ensures effectiveness, best value for money, fairness, integrity and
transparency through competition, and accountability and ethical
standards among stakeholders.

Legal Unit Executive Secretary • Guides SADC in the application and interpretation of SADC legal regimes
90 including the SADC Treaty, SADC Protocols and legal instruments and the
application and interpretation of international law.
Information and Deputy Executive • Guides the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies
Communication Secretary­Corporate within SADC.
Technologies Unit Affairs • Supports the implementation of the technological aspects of the revised
RISDP.
Communications and Executive Secretary • Provides Strategic Corporate Communication and Awareness of SADC
Public Relations Unit and its programmes, as well as Public Relations services.

SADC Liaison Office to Executive Secretary • Enhances and strengthens regional capacity to facilitate continental
the African Union integration through peace, security, stability and sustainable
development as envisaged in the Agenda 2063 and other African Union
legal and policy frameworks.
Enhances communication and liaison between the AUC and SADC.

Source SADC
The restructuring in 2001 saw the creation of four Directorates at the SADC Secre-
tariat under which all of the existing sectors were clustered according to their cross-sectoral
linkages, as shown in Figure 3.2. The following Directorates were created:
● Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment
● Infrastructure and Services
● Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
● Social and Human Development and Special Programmes.
The structure of the Secretariat was reviewed in 2005 and again in 2017.