About us

The Sub-Regional Office for southern Africa – SRO-Harare (formerly SAMAT) evolved from the ILO office-wide field restructuring process in 2003. This was aimed at bringing the ILO closer to its tripartite constituents comprising government, employers and trade union organizations. SRO-Harare represents the ILO in Zimbabwe, and it is responsible for all technical and advisory services in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

SRO-Harare works in close collaboration with ILO Offices in Pretoria and Lusaka in providing technical and advisory services to the ILO’s partners in the nine southern African countries.The ILO Office in Pretoria represents the ILO in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland; whilst ILO Office in Lusaka represents the Organization in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.

ILO/SRO-Harare has a fully-fledged secretariat that provides administrative and financial support to technical cooperation specialists and their programmes. The office also has a documentation and publications centre that offers information services as well as sell publications published by the ILO at HQ and the Sub-Regional Office’s own research documents. The Sub-Regional Office also facilitates the training of members of the ILO’s constituents at the ILO’s Turin Centre and in their home countries.