We are grateful to our basket fund partners for their continued support: they are the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). We also thank our other partners – the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), the Southern Africa Trust (SAT) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) – for continuing to fill the gaps in our budgets. Thabo Thakalekoala Chairperson Regional Governing Council Annual Report 2007 7