The SADC-GMI is established as a section 21 not-for-profit company registered under the South African Companies Act No. 71 of 2008, as amended. The company is run by a Board of Directors composed of representatives from the SADC Member States, University of the Free State, an Executive Director and SADC Secretariat’s Water Division as the Chair. You can find out more information on SADC-GMI’s Board of Directors, Permanent Staff and Consultants here.
We are hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa on behalf of, and under the strategic guidance of the SADC Secretariat, Directorate of Infrastructure’s Water Division, in Gaborone, Botswana. As a subsidiary structure of the SADC Secretariat, SADC-GMI draws its regional mandate from the fifth phase Regional Strategic Action Plan for Integrated Water Resources Management (RSAP V: 2021-2025).