Southern African Development Community

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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization, headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. It furthers socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among 15 southern African states. It complements the role of the African Union. SADC countries face many social, development, economic, trade, education, health, diplomatic, defense, security and political challenges. SADC's aims are set out in different sources. The sources include the treaty establishing the organization (SADC treaty); various protocols (other SADC treaties, such as the corruption protocol, the firearms protocol, the OPDS protocol, the health protocol and the education protocol); development and cooperation plans such as the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) and the Strategic Indicative Plan of the Organ (SIPO); and declarations such as those on HIV and AIDS and food security.

For more information, see the Wikipedia article "Southern African Development Community" or the IO's homepage at http://www.sadc.int/.