The Sub-Sahara African (SSA) region, spurred by the post pandemic global economic recovery, notwithstanding different country outcomes, continues to grow consistently. According to the International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook, global output is estimated to expand by 3.3 percent in 2025, shy of 3.2 percent registered in 2024. Over the same period, Sub -Sahara African […]
The SADC DFRC has come a long way traversing a period generally characterised by a strong growth path in its operations and thus carving a niche in the regional development finance space as a Centre of excellence. Almost ten thousand programme beneficiaries later and a solid membership of forty one (41) up from seventeen (17) […]
Financial Year 2021 – 2022, albeit an improvement on the previous one that bore the full brunt of the Covid-19 adverse effects, continued to be characterised by financial difficulties for the DFRC that negatively impacted programme delivery capacity. During the year 2021, as the Covid-19 threat receded and governments began to unwind the fiscal and […]
The financial year under review has been a very difficult one primarily due to the incidence of the Covid-19 and its devastating effects on the global economy that saw growth shrink by 3.1% in 2020 according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections. Sub Saharan African states were not spared at all, declining 1.7% as […]
The DFRC interventions aimed at enhancing skills of the DFI Network members through training and development programmes, technical assistance, secondments and attachments as well as policy research and advisory services continue to grow with each ensuing year. In total, twenty-five programmes were held during the course of the financial year and six hundred and fifty-six […]
The DFRC continues to accomplish its mandate with excellence, augmenting the work of DFIs within the SADC region and extending its reach to the East African Community and COMESA. This has been a fruitful year with activities being undertaken in the areas of capacity building, policy research, public private partnerships (PPP’s) and the provision of […]
This year has witnessed the DFRC attain higher levels of performance in activities as it continues to consolidate its position as a significant player in the development finance space in the SADC region and beyond. This has seen heightened activity across all fields of operation – capacity building, policy research, public private partnerships and advisory […]
The SADC Development Finance Resource Centre (SADC-DFRC) is pleased to present its Annual Report for the financial year 2016/17. This comprehensive report details our continued commitment to our mandate: strengthening development finance institutions (DFIs) and supporting governments to achieve national and regional development goals. As the leader in facilitating development finance solutions in the SADC region and […]
The 2016 Annual Report details a year of significant institutional growth, highlighted by the official opening of our new permanent office in Gaborone and the expansion of the DFI Network to 36 members. This report covers our progress in aligning DFI activities with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the strengthening of the PSGRS framework, […]
The 2015 Annual Report showcases a year of high performance and strategic alignment with regional goals. Key highlights include the completion of the “Scan of SADC Development Finance Institutions and Environment,” a landmark study whose action plan was approved by the SADC Committee of Ministers. The report details our delivery of 24 capacity-building programmes, the […]
Southern African Development Community – Development Finance Resource Centre (SADC-DFRC) serves as a regional centre of excellence and secretariat for development finance institutions (DFIs) from SADC member states.
