Research Consortium on Ageing in SADC – Southern African Think Tank for Ageing Research

Vision, Mission and Goal

Our vision, aim and objectives  is to bring together all ageing researchers, academia, government institutions in charge of older person’s well-being, CSOs and individuals promoting older persons’ well-being  and media from all 16 SADC countries namely Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, United Republic Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe and other African countries and other collaborators from the global North and global South who are interested in ageing issues in SADC so that we become the main center for  ageing research aimed at  generating data to be used by all governments, CSOs, Media, academia, and regional and international  development partners to improve well-being of older persons in SADC and to  address  regional and international research gaps in  ageing research in SADC. Thus, we envision a research consortium that will be generating most representative, comprehensive and reliable scientific data on ageing in SADC that will influence policy and practice. This is because data on every aspect of ageing will be simultaneously collected from all 16 SADC countries.