Written by:
Dr Anderson B. Shankanga
Published by:
The Regional Economic Development and Integration (REDI) Programme of the Southern African
Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC), P O Box 5690, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Email: sardc@sardc.net or redi@sardc.net
Funded by:
The African Development Bank under its African Development Fund’s Technical
Assistance Fund.
The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of ADB or SARDC
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Human Resources Development
| Background and context |
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The Organization of African Unity (OAU) summit held in Lagos in April 1980 adopted the
Lagos Plan of Action for Economic Development
of Africa 1980 -2000. The move was in response
to the perceived need for action to provide the necessary
political framework for measures to achieve
self-sustaining development and economic growth
in Africa (OAU, 1980)...full details
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| SADC Human Resources Development Sector |
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The Lusaka Declaration and the Harare Memorandum of Understanding underlined' "manpower" development, research and training and information exchange as core areas of the SADCC programme of cooperation for regional
economic transformation. A SADCC manpower sector was
created in 1981 and assigned to Swaziland. The Swazi government
assigned the responsibility for the management of
the sector to the department of economic planning and statistics...full details
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| Conclusiona and comments |
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It has been established that the founding leaders of SADC
saw a link between their organization and the OAU strategy
for achieving an economic community of African states.
SADC is today perceived as a strong regional organization
with a capacity to serve as a significant building block in
the development of the continental community... ..full details
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| Recommendations |
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In the framework and strategy document for building the
community reviewed in preceding sections, SADC sees
regional integration as dependent on a strong commitment
on the part of national governments. In addition the document
stresses the need to facilitate popular participation in the process. It places emphasis on the need to create conditions
for attracting contributions from all sections of society, society,
beyond government ministers
and officials....full
details
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