Southern Africa Regional Plan
4.4 Questions: tackling the right issues
What criteria should inform decisions on which issues to tackle through a regional programme?
And what criteria should determine how those issues are approached?
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• Issues which cannot be dealt effectively only at the national level like transboundary water resources, communicable diseases, malaria, animal diseases
• Issues where regional protocols have been signed and ratified
• Relevance to MDGs
• Relevance to policy makers
• Economic and social outcome
• Where political will exists and political interventions are fast when required
• Maximisation of employment and growth
• Consensus
• Agreed framework of co operation
• Participatory
• Inclusiveness