Presented by A. Chitambo, SADC Secretariat
Park Inn, Sandton
South Africa
 Highlights
of SADC Policy Instruments with
provisions on Portability of migrant Workers
benefits
 Efforts Towards implementation
 Way forward
Signed in 2003 by Summit
Article 2, one of the objectives of the Charter
is to Promote the establishment and
harmonisation of the social security schemes.
Article 10: Member States shall create enabling
environment so that every worker in the
region shall have a right to adequate social
protection and shall, regardless of status
and type of employment enjoy adequate
social security benefits.
 Member States are expected to have made
provisions to domesticate this
ARTICLE 17: MIGRANTS, FOREIGN WORKERS
AND REFUGEES:
i) Member States should ensure the
facilitation of exportability of benefits,
including the payment of benefits in the host
country.
ii) Member States are called upon to identify
the applicable law for purposes of
implementing this provision

SADC Secretariat has administered monitoring
and evaluation tool to determine
implementation status by MS
Strengthening Accountability, Coordination and
Collaboration:
 Develop or strengthen national and regional
frameworks for coordination of issues pertaining to
TB, TB and HIV, silicosis, other occupational
respiratory diseases and occupational health and
safety issues for all mineworkers including crossborder mine workers and ex-mine workers.

Develop guidelines for and promote integrated workplace
wellness programmes to ensure that employers take full
responsibility for the management of all TB, TB and HIV,
Silicosis and other occupational respiratory disease cases
including those occurring post-employment
Action Plan has been developed and implementation
expected to start in 2015
ARTICLE 19:LABOUR MIGRATION AND
MIGRANT
WORKERS
State Parties shall endeavour to:
adopt measures to facilitate the
coordination and portability of social
security benefits, especially through the
adoption of appropriate bilateral and
multilateral agreements providing for
equality of treatment of non-citizens,
aggregation of insurance periods,
maintenance of acquired rights and
benefits, exportability of benefits and
institutional cooperation
 Cross
border portability of social protection
instruments developed and operationalized
by 2018: Activities to start delivering on this
targeted output is envisaged to start in 2015.
Partners to Invest in:
 popularising the policy instruments to foster
ownership
 Sign and ratify to facilitate implementation
 Implement /domesticate the regional
instruments
 Monitoring and reporting