This Annual Report is the first Report of the Development Finance Resource Centre (DFRC), and the DFI Network of SADC. Both of
these institutions are new “self-help” creations of SADC, aimed at supporting regional economic integration and effective delivery on the
development challenges facing the sub-region. They have specifically taken on the challenge of supporting the SADC Regional Indicative
Strategic Development Plan (the RISDP) which is the region’s 10-15 year strategic development agenda, and which has at its centre the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the context of the NEPAD philosophy of “African Solutions for African
Problems,” therefore, these institutional mechanisms for delivery comprise a Southern African solution to addressing some of the region’s
most pressing problems. This report, coming one and a half years after the DFRC’s establishment, is therefore timely