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SADC Sectoral Responsibilities 1996 Figure 3.1

Angola Energy

Agricultural Research
Botswana
Livestock Production
Animal Disease Control
Democratic
Republic
of Congo
Environment and
Management
Lesotho
Water
Inland Fisheries
Malawi Forestry
Wildlife
Mauritius Tourism

Council Sectorial Sector Culture, Information
and Sport
of Commitees Coordinating Mozambique
Transport and
Ministers of Ministers Units Communications
Legal Sector
Namibia
Marine Fisheries
and Resources
Seychelles
Finance and
South Africa Investment
85
Health
Eswathini Human Resources
Development
Tanzania Industry and Trade
Employment and
Zambia Labour
Mining
Crop Sector
Zimbabwe
Food, Agriculture and
Natural Resources
*Sectors still to be allocated.
Source SADC, Major Achievements and Challenges 1980­2005; SADC Today, Vol 1 No1 February 1997

signed to coordinate. Each sector had an official Annual Conference with Development Agencies Box 3.1
assigned to act as the Contact Point for coordina-
tion with the Secretariat. The first Annual Consultative Conference with development agencies
Sectoral responsibilities evolved in this after the International Donors Conference held in Mozambique in 1980
way through 1996, after Namibia and South was hosted by Malawi in 1981, attended by the representatives of 20
Africa had joined SADC in 1990 and 1994 re- governments and 12 development agencies, further consolidating
spectively, and Mauritius in 1995, as shown in SADCC’s relations with international cooperating partners and
Figure 3.1. These were subject to minor ad- accelerating implementation of SADCC programmes. This was in
justments post-1996 as for example, food secur- response to the 1980 Lusaka Declaration which called for “concerted
ity was considered to cut across several sectors, action to secure international cooperation within the framework of
but these responsibilities essentially remained our strategy for economic liberation.” SADCC participation was at
for another five years until the creation of a ministerial level while representatives of the international partners
more centralized structure. were drawn from governments and organisations that supported the
Together with the sector Commissions, the SADCC Programme of Action in various thematic areas. These
SCUs were in operation until the institutional re- conferences became a regular focus of annual institutional planning,
forms embarked on by SADC in 2001. and each meeting focused on a different thematic area.