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UNIVISA
The trend in tourism arrivals is encouraging with the number almost doubling between
2000 and 2013, supported by the Protocol on the Development of Tourism which seeks
to improve the quality of services, safety standards and infrastructure to attract tourists
and investment. The Protocol states that travel in the region can be made easier by
abolishing visa requirements for visitors and calls on Member States to create a UNIVISA
to facilitate the movement of international tourists in the region. The first step was taken
by Zambia and Zimbabwe in November 2014 for movement within the
Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Park using one visa valid for 60 days.

Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap 2015­2063
An Extra-Ordinary Summit held in Harare, Zimbabwe on 29 April 2015, 65
hosted and chaired by President Robert Gabriel Mugabe, approved the SADC
Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap 2015-2063. The strategy is anchored
on three pillars of Industrialisation, Competitiveness, and Regional Integration,
and is expected to ensure that the region fully benefits from its vast natural
resources. The Summit underscored the critical importance of infrastructure in
industrialisation and the need to explore appropriate funding mechanisms for
implementation of the Industrialisation Strategy. The SADC Secretariat was
directed to finalise the Costed Action Plan for the implementation and ensure that
the industrialisation strategy has top priority in implementation of the Revised
RISDP (2015-2020).

Approval of Revised RISDP 2015­2020
The Revised Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan 2015-2020 was
approved by the Extra-Ordinary Summit to guide the implementation of SADC
programmes in the next five years, with four major priority areas – Industrial
Development and Market Integration; Infrastructure in Support of
Regional Integration; Peace and Security Cooperation as a
prerequisite for regional integration; and Special Programmes of
regional dimension.