| | Heads of State of the Southern African Development Community have approved a radical restructuring of SADC institutions to 'squarely face the daunting regional and global challenges'. Consultations over the past year at ministerial level proposed the restructuring and centralization of SADC functions, from 21 sectors based in 14 countries and dealing with a diverse range of development issue from health, environment and mining to trade, tourism and investment into four clusters to be located at the SADC headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana. The proposal was adopted by Heads of State with little change, setting SADC on course to streamline itself rapidly into four Directorates, as follows: Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment; Infrastructure and Services; Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR); Social and Human Development and Special Programmes. |
