| Press Release
Announcing Regional Workshop: ’50 By 15’
Parliaments And Civil Society Prevention Movement Follow-Up Meeting - Towards Reducing 50% Of New Infection By The Year 2015 |
| Windhoek, Namibia, The SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF), in collaboration with UNAIDS RST, World AIDS Campaign, Soul City Institute, SAT, SAFAIDS, and HEARD will be holding a three day workshop as a follow-up meeting of the ’50 by 15’ movement, a new Regional initiative that brings together the Parliamentarians and Civil Society to synergise their efforts in ensuring that we turn off the tap of new infection so that we reach the target of reducing new HIV infections by 50 percent by 2015, together with the virtual elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Continue |
| Consultancy Services for the Production of an Accounting and Budgeting Manual for the SADC Parliamentary Forum |
| Tenders are invited from qualified accounting firms/consultants having the required resources and experience to offer consultancy services for the production of an Accounting and Budgeting Manual for the SADC Parliamentary Forum. Continue |
| COMMUNIQUÉ : 26TH PLENARY ASSEMBLY OF THE SADC PARLIAMENTARY FORUM, HELD AT ELEPHANT HILLS HOTEL, VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE |
The 26th Plenary Assembly Session of the Southern Africa Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) was held at Elephant Hills Hotel, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, under the theme: “Towards Benefiting SADC Citizens”. This was the 2nd time that the Plenary Assembly was hosted in Zimbabwe, with the last one having been in 2001 at the same venue. Continue |
| INTERIM MISSION STATEMENT - SADC PARLIAMENTARY FORUM ELECTION OBSERVER MISSION TO NAMIBIA ELECTIONS 2009 |
Following the invitation by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), the SADC Parliamentary Forum constituted an Election Observation Mission to observe the 2009 Presidential and National Assembly Elections in Namibia. The forty member Mission was in the country from 20th November 2009 to 1st December 2009. It was composed of 20 Members of Parliament, 10 Parliamentary staff from the eleven (11) SADC Parliaments, and 10 staff of the Forum Secretariat. Continue |
PRESS RELEASE -SADC PARLIAMENTARY FORUM ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION TO THE 2009 NOVEMBER ELECTIONS:
27 - 28 NOVEMBER 2009 |
A 40-Member Election Observer Mission of the SADC Parliamentary Forum arrives in Windhoek on 20 November 2009 to observe the 2009 Namibia Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. This is the third time the Forum Mission observes Elections in Namibia, having done so in 1999 and 2004 respectively. Download |
| STATEMENT BY THE SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA AND PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION Hon. Dr. THEO-BEN GURIRAB ON OCCASION OF THE COMMEMORATION OF THE WORLD AIDS DAY 2009 IN NAMIBIA IN CONJUCTION WITH SOUTHERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARLIAMENTARY FORUM (SADC PF) 1st DECEMBER 2009 |
Every year on the 1st of December, the people of the world commemorate World AIDS Day, in order to reflect and remind ourselves that we have an elephant in the house that we need to keep fighting. HIV/AIDS has become a global emergency and for us in Southern Africa. The epidemic not only threatens to halt development, but to reverse gains made in various sectors. Continue |
| Botswana Election Observation Mission, SADC
Parliamentary Forum Interim Statement |
| At the invitation of the Government of Botswana to the SADC
Parliamentary Forum to come and observe the Botswana General Elections
2009, the Forum Secretariat put together an Observation Mission of 45
people composed of 20 Members of Parliament(MPs), 10 Parliamentary staff
members and 15 SADC Parliamentary Secretariat staff which included
support from SADC Parliamentary Forum, translators and interpreters. Download |
