Southern Africa Regional Plan
6.4 Governments
In considering regional institutions and organisations with regional ‘reach’ we must not neglect essential relationships with national governments. To a greater or lesser extent, member states drive all regional integration – either negotiating on inter-governmental forums or ceding authority to supranational institutions. There are particular questions here for DFID-SA, as a regional DFID office, with sister country offices with bilateral remits in some but not all of the SADC/ COMESA/ EAC member states.
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Help national governments to promote participatory regional integration approach: government, private sector and civil society.
There are also opportunities to focus on the legislative, as well as the executive, branches of national governments. RHVP’s partnership with the SADC Parliamentary Forum has scratched the surface of the huge demand from parliamentarians for knowledge, information and policy advise to inform their debates on a wide range of issues around hunger and vulnerability.