Category - Governance

    Women Representation in National Assembly in SADC Member States in March 2022 (%)   (Hover on chart to see more details)

  SADC Member States National Progress Reports on implementation of the SADC Gender and Development Protocol; with Africa rankings from the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) which also uses official data submitted by Parliaments, March 2022. The Union of Comoros data from IPU.

The Cabinet is an executive body of appointed government ministers. It normally consists vice-presidents, appointed ministers of government.

Parliament is responsible for promoting democratic governance and ensuring that the provisions of the constitution are upheld and all institutions and agencies of government at every level act constitutionally and in national interest. The parliament consists of elected and/or nominated representatives responsible for making and changing the laws of the country.

Electoral management bodies ensure that the environment in which elections take place is conducive to conduct credible elections.

The Public Service Commission advise the national and provincial organs of the State regarding personnel practices in the public service, including those relating to the recruitment, appointment, transfer, discharge and other aspects of the careers of employees in the public service.

Central government which is made up of three arms namely, the judiciary, legislature and the executive is a unitary system of government underpinned by local authorities as lower tiers of government responsible for providing services at the local levels.

Judiciary is accountable to the people from whom it derives its judicial authority. The judiciary is headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who, like the other justices, is appointed by the President on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission in most countries.