This article presents and argues for a collabo-rative model for disaster risk management in the Southe African Development Community (SADC). The research employed a qualitative study through a literature review and empirical research through focus group interviews to realize its objectives. As a key theory of multinational collaboration, neoliberal institutionalism—a subset of the inteational relations theory—was used to develop the SADC institutional collaborative model. The model com-bined the theoretical, political, and technical dimensions of collaboration to enhance buy-in for the disaster risk man-agement and reduction function of govements. The model demonstrates the need for a multidisciplinary approach to achieving disaster risk management and reduction in the SADC and elsewhere, if the developmental objectives of disaster risk reduction are to be realized without interference in the domestic affairs of the member countries. This model is therefore grounded in seeking consensus and cooperation among cooperating states in a quest to ensure national implementation of the regional framework on disaster risk reduction.