SADC water-management and its impact
Dec 19th, 2010 by bjoern
As I am working already nine months in the GTZ Transboundary Water Management programm supporting the SADC Water Division with monitoring activities, donor-harmonisation and diverse public relation activities I wanted to share some results and impacts of our work for better understanding. Often regional integration is not easy to explain and benefits are indirect and coming slowly but as the region depends on more than 70 percent of transboundary rivers the work directly effects people in the fifteen, very diverse, Member States.
Our teams recently finalised the four-part documentary “Bridging Waters” about transboundary water-cooperation within the region. We aim to broadcast them in public broadcasters in the region but uploaded them also to the WaterChannel.tv. Please have a look at: “Water for Peace” (general introduction to transboundary water-cooperation within the SADC region, “Water for Economical Development” (focus on Orange-Senqu basin between Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa), “Water for Poverty Reduction” (focus on Limpopo basin with Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe) and “Water and Climate Change” (focus on the Zambezi basin with Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Additionally you can find an overview about the donor-activities online at the SADC Water Sector ICP Collaboration Portal, that I compiled to support cooperation between international donors and the SADC institutions. And last but not least I would like to share the slide-show about our work and impact on flickr.