7 4 • S O U T H E R N A F R I C A N including in the SADC National Committees, SADC standardisation of the qualification and accreditation Cultural Trust Fund and Forum for Dialogue; Coordination and standardisation of databases and information systems in the area of social and human promote comparability in the educational and development and special programmes, particularly training systems and their outputs; for human capital formation, labour markets, Allocation of adequate human and financial re- productivity improvement, cultural development, and sources for the provision of essential services for combating human poverty, HIV and AIDS, TB, malaria human development as well as promoting their and other major diseases; • Development of a policy framework for the facilitation Promotion of positive cultural values, attitudes and of cross-border informal trade for employment practices for human development, gender equality creation and income generation; and and deeper regional integration and regional identity. • • access to education and training opportunities and to efficient utilization; • C O M M U N I T Y Coordination of the development, harmonization and systems and frameworks with a view to increase • D E V E L O P M E N T • Coordination of policies and strategies to enhance Increasing access to education in science and and strengthen infrastructure for the constant flow of technology, ICT by women in order to address gender and dissemination of information. disparities; • • • enhance and improve access to and the flow of 4.13.5 TARGETS information; In view of the long gestation period required for Consolidation of policies and strategies to facilitate interventions in social and human development to the creation of a conducive environment for the yield expected results, targets in this area will be in media to operate in; and line with those of the Millennium Development Coordinate and harmonise SADC positions on Goals. international commitments in the area of social and These broad targets are as follows: human development. • All Member States should achieve universal Coordination and harmonisation of programmes to primary education and ensure that all children Strategies: Utilisation of Human Capabilities complete a full course of primary schooling by • 2015; Harmonization of policies and programmes for employment creation, income generation and • Enrolment gaps between boys and girls in primary productivity improvement with a view to enhance the and secondary education should be eliminated labour absorptive capacity of the national economies preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education as well as measures to reduce the brain drain in the by no later than 2015; region and mitigate the impact of the HIV and AIDS pandemic on the workforce; • Harmonisation of policies and facilitating the establishment of mechanisms for the movement of labour and for the promotion, conservation and preservation of tangible and intangible regional cultural heritage as well as the promotion and protection of creativity; • • Under-Five Mortality Rates should be reduced by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 in all Member States; • Maternal Mortality Rates reduced by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 in all Member States; and • All Member States should halt and begin to reverse Consolidation and promotion of tripatism and social the incidence of malaria and other major diseases dialogue in addressing labour and employment by 2015. issues as part of the regional integration agenda as well as developing mechanisms for stakeholder participation in the implementation of the RISDP,