Southern Africa Regional Plan
1. Overview
1.1 Taking a regional approach
DFID Southern Africa’s Regional Plan 2006 – 2011, published in February 2006, set out the rationale for regional working and proposed a regional approach to tackling some of the challenges facing Southern Africa. The plan identified three thematic areas where DFID Southern Africa (DFID-SA) would aim to make a contribution at the regional level: Growth, [...]
1.2 Success so far
Working with a range of partners in national and regional government, the private sector, civil society, bilateral and multilateral donors, and UN agencies, DFID has seen this regional approach achieve successes in many areas: Harmonisation of regional standards to facilitate trade has helped increase vegetable exports from Mozambique by more than 100% from 2007 to [...]
1.3 Where we stand
The recent UK White Paper, Building Our Common Future, recognises the potential of working regionally in Africa for building strong growth. The UK has committed to doubling its funding for regional programmes in Africa to £1 billion over the next four years. DFID Southern Africa (DFID-SA) will spend £29 million through its regional programme in [...]
