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Geography, demographics, economy, history, and government
- Countries: Angola, Zambia, Malawi , Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland
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Sources
- Southern African Research & Documentation Centre (SARDC) - information on Southern Africa and the Southern African
Development Community (SADC), a part of the African Union
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(Click on map to go to countries in the region)
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Portals, indexes, guides, searchers, phone directories
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Executive, legislature, judiciary, ministries, departments, agencies, and commissions
- SADC Water Sector Coordinating Unit (SADC WSCU) (Lesotho) - aims to attain the sustainable, integrated planning,
development, utilisation and management of water resources that contribute to the attainment of SADC's overall objectives of an
integrated regional economy on the basis of balance, equity and mutual benefit for all member States
- Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA) (Auckland Park, South Africa) - aims to strengthen electoral processes, good
governance, human rights and democratic values through research, capacity building, advocacy and other targeted interventions,
and services governments, electoral commissions, political parties, civil society organisations and other institutions operating in
the democracy and governance fields throughout the SADC region and beyond
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Human rights & civil liberties, humanitarian aid, political parties, activism, environment, and labour
- Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) - campaigns for peace, democracy and development
- Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Southern Africa - provides financial services and advice to charities in partnership with the South
African NGOs and the Southern African Grantmakers Association
- CRWRC East and Southern Africa Ministry Team (ESAMT) - Christian Reformed World Relief Committee is a relief,
development, and educational ministry supported by the Christian Reformed Church (North America), which undertakes
programs in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa
- Ford Foundation Southern Africa (Johannesburg) - provides support for applied research, policy studies, institutional
capacity-building and demonstration projects chosen for their potential to advance select fields of research and to support
democratic public policy planning and implementation
- Human Rights, Gender Issues & Democracy in Southern Africa - website created by the Human Rights & Documentation
Centre (University of Namibia), UNESCO, and Human Rights Internet to serve as a forum to document and disseminate
information pertaining to human rights, gender issues and democracy relevant to the 14 member countries of the Southern
African Development Community (SADC)
- Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (Equinet) (Zimbabwe) - network of research, civil society and health sector
organisations which seeks to develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in health by identifying critical areas of
work and policy issues and exposing existing unfair and avoidable inequalities in health
- Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) - non-profit foundation which oversees US$5 million in grants annually in
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and whose programmes
broadly focus on economic reform, education, human rights and democracy building as well as media
- Panos Southern Africa (Lusaka) - an information and communications 'animator' affiliated with the Panos Institute (London)
which works within a network of local media, civil society actors and public policy formulators across the region to stimulate
debate around issues of sustained development, especially those least and most poorly covered by the mainstream media
- Southern African Development Community (SADC) (Gaborone, Botswana) - aims to achieve development and economic growth,
alleviate poverty, enhance the standard and quality of life of the people of Southern Africa and support the socially disadvantaged
through regional integration
- Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN) (Pretoria, RSA)- provides a facility for raising the level and quality of public
debate on poverty across the Southern African Development Community(SADC)
- Working Group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA) (Windhoek, RSA and D'Kar, Botswana) - established at the
request of the San aboriginal people of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, to provide a platform for their
communities to express their problems, needs and concerns
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Education, health & public safety, religion, women, children & youth, and associations & societies
- Association of Societies for Occupational Safety and Health (ASOSH) - gateway to information on Occupational Health and
Safety (OHS) in South and Southern Africa (and around the world)
- Institute of Development Management (IDM) (Gaborone, Botswana) - regional organisation in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland
aimed at helping meet the management needs of the region through management development activities including training,
consultancy, research, and the establishment of a Management Resource Centre
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Ethnicity, language, the arts, history & heritage, performance, costume, and literature
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Associations, competitions, leisure, and hobbies
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Guides & advice, accommodation, attractions, transport, agents, and organisers
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Statistics, government, economy, geography, demography, and society
- Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SADC) - an independent regional information resource centre involved in
the collection, production and dissemination of information
- Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust (WLSA) (Harare, Zimbabwe) - action oriented research organization in seven
countries of Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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Newspapers & magazines, journals, television & radio, publishing, and entertainment
- Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (Windhoek, Namibia) - focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and
pluralistic media, as envisaged in the 1991 Windhoek Declaration, and seeks ways in which to promote the free flow of
information and co-operation between media workers, as a principal means of nurturing democracy and human rights in Africa
- Southern Africa Media Development Fund (SAMDEF) (Windhoek, Namibia) - seeks to strengthen, through financial, technical
and training support, the capacity of the region's independent media to become self-sustaining enterprises. This includes the
capacity of the region's independent media to effectively produce, manage, market and distribute their products in conformity
with the goals of the 1991 Windhoek Declaration on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press
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Resourcing, manufacturing, distribution, trade, and regulation of goods and services
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Banking, investment, insurance, stockmarkets, and market regulation
- Committee of Central Bank Governors in SADC (Pretoria, RSA) - proposes projects designed to contribute to the process of
regional economic co-operation and integration in Southern Africa
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