ABSTRACT
The Treaty places binding obligations on member countries, with the aim of promoting economic integration towards a fully developed common market. The establishment of an SADC Tribunal was provided for under the Treaty establishing SADC and facilitated by a protocol adopted in 2000. In January 1992 a meeting of the SADCC Council of Ministers approved proposals to transform the organization-by then expanded to include Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Swaziland (now Eswatini)-into a fully integrated economic community, and in August the Treaty establishing SADC was signed. In early April the SADC Council of Ministers adopted a set of guidelines aimed at facilitating and harmonizing the flow of critical services and essential goods in the region during the crisis. In June 2013 the SADC Secretariat, in co-operation with the UN Development Program, formulated a set of indicators aimed at mainstreaming HIV awareness in the following five sectors: economic development; finance; infrastructure; local government; and works and planning.
