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Southern African Development Community (SADC) - Country Profiles

Policies

Forestry strategy 2020-2030.
Date of text: 15 May 2024
SADC Strategy and Implementation Plan on the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity 2024-2030.
Date of text: 2024
SADC - CITES Engagement Strategy for 2022 - 2026.
Date of text: 01 June 2023
Regional Multi-Hazard Planning Framework, 2022-2030.
Date of text: 01 January 2023
Regional Strategic Action Plan on Integrated Water Resources Development and Management Phase V (2021-2025).
Date of text: 2023

Legislation

Cultivated plants

Guidelines on the Establishment and Management of Community Genebanks.
Date of text: 01 August 2020
SADC (Southern African Development Community) Guidelines for Pesticides Management and Risk Reduction.
Date of text: 01 November 2019
Ratification No. 12/24 approving the Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Seeds - Rights of Breeders and Seed Breeders of the Southern African Development Community, and guaranteeing that it will be strictly observed.
Date of text: 15 May 2024

Environment

Ratification No. 10/24 approving the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Environmental Management for Sustainable Development, and guaranteeing that it will be strictly observed.
Date of text: 15 May 2024

Fisheries and aquaculture

Resolution No. 39/2002 ratifying the Protocol on Community Fisheries for Southern African development (SADC).
Date of text: 30 April 2002
Ratification No. 11/24 approving the Charter on the Regional Cooperation Centre for Fisheries Monitoring and Surveillance, and guaranteeing that it will be strictly observed.
Date of text: 15 May 2024

Food and nutrition

Regional school nutrition guidelines for SADC Member States.
Date of text: 01 May 2021
SADC Fortification Minimum Standards.
Date of text: 2020
Regional Guidelines for the regulation of Food Safety in SADC Member States.
Date of text: 01 November 2011
Resolution No. 39/2002 ratifying the Protocol on Community Fisheries for Southern African development (SADC).
Date of text: 30 April 2002

Gender

SADC Guideline for Mainstreaming Gender in River Basin Organisations.
Date of text: 2015

Mineral resources and energy

Ratification No. 6/24 approving the Protocol on the Mining Sector between the Republic of Angola and the Southern African Development Community as firm and valid, and guaranteeing that it will be strictly observed.
Date of text: 15 May 2024

Water

SADC Guideline for Mainstreaming Gender in River Basin Organisations.
Date of text: 2015
Ratification No. 9/24 approving the Protocol on Common Hydrographic Systems in the Southern African Development Community Region as firm and valid, guaranteeing that it will be strictly observed.
Date of text: 15 May 2024

Wild species and ecosystems

Southern African Development Community Transfrontier Conservation Guidelines: The establishment and development of TFCA initiatives between SADC Member States.
Date of text: 2014
Ratification No. 7/24 approving the Protocol on the Development of Tourism in the Southern African Development Community, and guaranteeing that it will be strictly observed.
Date of text: 15 May 2024

Miscellaneous

Accelerating Action to Eradicate Child Labour in SADC.
Date of text: 30 March 2022

International Agreements

Agreement on the Operationalisation of the SADC Regional Development Fund, August 2016.
Date of text: 31 August 2016
Consolidated Text of the Protocol on Gender and Development.
Date of text: 2016
SADC Gender Policy.
Date of text: 2007