REGIONAL INDIC ATIVE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PL AN 7 coherent implementation programme of the main activities The RISDP provides SADC Member States, with a coher- necessary for the achievement of the region's broader ent and comprehensive development agenda on social and goals with a reasonable, feasible and agreeable time economic policies over the next fifteen years. It also pro- frame that takes into account resource constraints. vides the Secretariat and other SADC institutions with clear While maintaining a "development integration" guidelines on SADC's approved social and economic prior- strategy, the RISDP, in view of the significant discrep- ities and policies, and, therefore, enhances their effective- ancies existing among SADC Member States, recognises the need for a flexible approach towards deeper integration and the implementation of various policy reforms and recommendations. Most of the policies, strategies and programmes of SADC were designed independently by individual Sector Coordinating Units before they were grouped into clusters managed through Directorates. For this reason, the various policies, strategies and programmes were not ness in discharging their facilitating and coordinating role. In the light of the SADC vision of a common future within a regional community and its mission to promote sustainable and equitable economic growth and socioeconomic development, the ultimate objective of the RISDP is to deepen the integration agenda of SADC with a view to accelerating poverty eradication and the attainment of other economic and non-economic properly co-ordinated leading to weak intersectoral development goals. To attain this objective, the RISDP linkages. The RISDP identifies and strengthens the takes stock of the current political, social and economic linkages, programmes and the policies of the various situation in the region with a view to providing a way sectors with a view to improving efficiency and delivery of forward for SADC to attain its objectives. the SADC Programme of Action.