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Extra­Ordinary Summit on Restructuring SADC Institutions, March 2001
A SADC Extra-Ordinary Summit was held in Windhoek, Namibia on 9 March 2001
hosted and chaired by President Dr Samuel Shafiishuna Nujoma, with the objective of
restructuring SADC institutions.
The Summit adopted the Report on the Review of the Operations of SADC
Institutions that recommended a new streamlined and strengthened structure to enable
SADC to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century, with the creation
of four Directorates at the SADC Secretariat under which all existing sectors are to
be clustered:
• Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment
• Infrastructure and Services
• Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Social and Human Development and Special Programmes.
The Department of Strategic Planning, Gender and Development, and Policy
Harmonisation was created to strengthen the Secretariat and serve as a think-tank for
regional integration and community building.
The functions of Summit and Council of Ministers remain as specified in the SADC
Treaty but the Troika system will be formalised to operate at the levels of Summit, the
Organ, Council, and the Standing Committee of Officials. A new Integrated Committee
of Ministers was established to oversee the core areas of integration including
implementation.
The structure of the Secretariat was reviewed again in 2005 and in 2017.
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Financial and Human Resources
Member States agreed to ensure the sustainability of SADC through the provision of
adequate financial and human resources which could be supplemented by other sources,
with an equitable formula for Member States’ contributions.

SADC National Committees
As part of restructuring, the amended SADC Treaty requires Member States to establish
multi-stakeholder National Committees with composition to reflect the key areas of the
four new directorates in order to facilitate national participation in SADC activities and
improve communication with the SADC Secretariat.

Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan
The Summit directed the Review Committee and the Secretariat to prepare a Regional
Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP).
Declaration concerning Firearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials
This Declaration is an undertaking to address the challenges of the illicit manufacturing,
stockpiling, trafficking, possession and use of firearms as the first stage towards the
development of a protocol.

Executive Secretary
Dr Prega Ramsamy of Mauritius, the Deputy Executive Secretary of SADC, was
appointed by the Extra-Ordinary Summit as Executive Secretary for a period of four
years, after serving as acting Executive Secretary since January 2000.