SADC Financial Regulations Effective 1 April 2013
(h) outcomes and provisions are consistent with those specified in the approved
Budget;
(i) relevant SADC Regulations, Policies and Procedures are being complied with;
“Internal Auditor” means the Head of Internal Audit with responsibility to
supervise internal audit operations of SADC;
“In-year Reporting” means ad-hoc; and monthly; and quarterly performance
reports concerned with both financial and non-financial targets. In-year reports
exclude Annual Financial Statements and the Annual Report;
“Key Result Area (KRA)” means a division of the budget within a Vote that
describes expected outputs for each operational objective. A Key Result Area
may consist of one or more main activities to be carried out to achieve the KRA;
“Loan Guarantee” means the SADC loan Guarantee;
“Management” means the management structure comprising of the Executive
Secretary, Deputy Executive Secretaries, and Directors;
“Member States” means a member country of SADC in accordance with Article
9A of the Treaty;
‘‘Overspending’’ including “Overcommitting”
(a) in relation to the budget of SADC, means causing the operational or capital
expenditure incurred by SADC during a financial year to exceed the total
amount appropriated in that year’s budget for its operational or capital
expenditure, as the case may be;
(b) in relation to a vote, means causing expenditure under the vote to exceed the
amount appropriated for that vote; or
(c) in relation to temporary budgets means causing expenditure to exceed the
limits allowed under such temporary budgets;
“Project Management Unit” means the project management unit set up for the
purpose of executing SADC approved projects;
“Records” means information established, recorded and kept by any means,
includes all books, accounts, rolls, files, vouchers, receipts, cheques, records,
registers, papers, documents, photographic plates, microfilms, photo static
negative prints, tapes, disks, computer reels, diskettes and hard disk, perforated
rolls, and any other type of written, printed, copied, magnetic tape, electronic data
record or other information whatsoever, and all papers and other records relating
to SADC accounting operations and practice;
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