The Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) is an independent regional knowledge resource kfdcentre established in 1985 to strengthen regional policy perspectives and track implementation on a range of issues in southern Africa,

The SAPP was created in August 1995 at the SADC summit held in Kempton Park, South Africa, when member governments of SADC (excluding Mauritius) signed an Inter-Governmental Memorandum of Understanding for the formation of an electricity power poo