Page 88 - sadc40en

Protocol on Industry
The Southern African Development Community achieved an important milestone when
the 39th SADC Summit approved the Protocol on Industry to facilitate the development
of a diversified, innovative and globally competitive industrial base. The Protocol will give
legal effect to the SADC Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap and its Costed Action
Plan, and provide coordination, monitoring and evaluation at regional and national levels.
The Summit expressed concern about the slow growth in intra-SADC trade levels, and
the continuing reliance on the export of unprocessed raw material to the rest of the world,
thereby forfeiting the potential benefits of the resource endowments. To this effect, the
Summit agreed to accelerate the implementation of the Industrialisation Strategy, and the
new SADC Chairperson, H.E. Dr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli urged Member States to
use their vast resources to generate wealth, saying the region is not poor.

Regional Mining Vision and Action Plan
The SADC Regional Mining Vision and Action Plan approved by the 39th Summit aims
to optimise the developmental impact of mineral resources extraction across the region to
assist Member States to gain more from their natural resources.

SADC Business Council
The SADC Business Council was launched in August in Dar es Salaam, United Republic
of Tanzania to strengthen private sector engagement in regional integration and public-
private sector cooperation in the transformation of SADC economies, pushing forward
78 the SADC Industrialisation Agenda.
Disaster Preparedness and Response Mechanism
The 39th Summit directed that the SADC Disaster Preparedness and Response
Mechanism should be operationalised as part of the regional response to climate
change, noting the devastating effects of tropical cyclones in the Union of Comoros,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Through the
Southern African Regional Climate Services for Disaster Resilience programme,
meteorological equipment was deployed to Member States to improve the capacity of
national meteorological and hydrological services to access, process and monitor
weather- and climate-related data and systems for timely early warning and disaster
management. The SADC Great Green Wall Initiative was developed to support
regional efforts to combat desertification, strengthen climate change adaptation, and
secure adequate food and nutrition security.

Kiswahili is Fourth Official Language of SADC
Kiswahili was approved as an official working language of SADC with English, French
and Portuguese. It was agreed that Kiswahili would be adopted at the level of Council and
Summit, first for oral communication before eventually being adopted for written official
communication within SADC.

Special Measures
The Summit noted good progress towards representation of women in politics and
economic decision-making and urged Member States to translate laws and policies into
concrete actions, such as legislative quotas on women’s representation in politics and the
application of Article 5 of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development on Special
Measures. The SADC Gender and Development Monitor 2018 was launched, focusing
on a review of economic empowerment and gender responsive budgeting.