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The strategic priorities of the Revised RISDP are as per the pillars shown:
✦ Industrial development and market integration; 99
✦ Infrastructure in support of regional integration;
✦ Peace and security cooperation; and
✦ Special programmes of regional dimension.
In this regard, achievements realised by SADC in the last 40 years will be presented
under these pillars of the Revised RISDP, while clearly highlighting the milestones of the
pre-RISDP period 1980-2005, the first RISDP 2005-2015, and the Revised RISDP 2015-
2020. The Peace and Security pillar is dealt with in more detail in Chapter 5.
After the RISDP 2015-2020 ended in March 2020, the 40th SADC Summit approved
a new strategic plan as they seek to further deepen regional integration over the next 10
years. In a departure from the previous regional strategic plans, the RISDP 2020-2030 in-
cludes interventions previously presented under the Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ
on Politics, Defence, and Security Cooperation (SIPO). The decision to include peace, se-
curity and governance matters in the RISDP 2020-30 is again transformative in
strengthening cohesion as the Organ is an integral part of the SADC Secretariat and the
two strategic plans are complementary in seeking to achieve the same common objectives.

4.2.1 Industrial Development and Market Integration
Industrial development has been one of the key components of the SADC economic in-
tegration agenda since the formation of the organisation in 1980. Harmonisation of in-
dustrial policies was one of the very first commitments made by SADC Founders when
they signed the Lusaka Declaration titled Southern Africa:Toward Economic Liberation. Moti-
vated by the need to reduce economic dependence, “particularly, but not only” on the then
apartheid South Africa, the leaders committed at the historic Lusaka conference to
strengthen the industrial capacity of their respective countries.
The first SADC Industrial Development Strategy was developed and adopted in 1989
in which various objectives and targets were proposed to accelerate industrial development
in the region by the year 2000. This was followed by the adoption of the SADC Industrial
Development Policy Framework in 2013.