DIRCO Annual Report

Programme: International Relations

Deviation from planned target to actual achievement 2021/22

Audited actual performance 2019/20

Audited actual performance 2018/19

Planned annual target 2020/21

Output indicator

**Actual achievement 2020/21

Reasons for deviations

Outcome

Output

• sector-level engagement with tour operators and major business generators; • raising the profile of South Africa as a preferred destination; • countering negative perceptions; and • Provision of information about region-specific packages by the South African domestic tourism industry

Regional integration

Southern African Development Community (SADC) South Africa contributed towards the socio-economic development and the implementation of the RISDP SADC is the primary vehicle for South Africa’s foreign policy to achieve regional development and integration within southern Africa. South Africa contributes within SADC towards regional initiatives geared towards peace, security, stability and sustainable development and the advancement of socio-economic development, through active participation in relevant structures as envisaged in the SADC Treaty. Within SADC, South Africa has earned a greater opportunity to influence regional policies and outcomes, when it became the Incoming Chair of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation during the 40th Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, held on 17 August 2020.

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