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The Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM) recently traced its roots back to Kasane, Botswana where the Agreement to establish the organisation was signed between the eight Riparian States was back in July 2004.

Reminiscing on the occasion, ZAMCOM Executive Secretary, Mr. Felix Ngamlagosi said: “About 19 years ago, on the 13th Day of July 2004, in this same location of Kasane and specifically at Mowana Safari Lodge, the eight countries that share the Zambezi Watercourse signed the ZAMCOM Agreement – which is the establishing instrument of this Commission.”

Mr. Ngamlagosi was addressing the opening session of the ZAMCOM Council of Ministers meeting held on 27th April 2023. The meeting is held annually to adopt policies, make decisions and provide guidance for the proper implementation of the functions of the Commission.

The Zambezi Watercourse is set to benefit from a global USD350 million fund disbursed through the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) to finance nature-based solutions to climate change threats.

At the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, in November 2022, the Zambezi Watercourse region was named one of only five countries or regions to be funded by the CIF’s Nature, People and Climate (NPC) investment platform launched in June 2022.  

The CIF NPC pilots and scales transformative nature-based climate solutions in developing countries.  The four other states of this first set of countries and regions to benefit from the CIF NPC fund are Egypt, the Dominican Republic, Fiji and Kenya.

Five of the Zambezi’s riparian states – Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Tanzania ......

The Zambezi Water Commission (ZAMCOM), in collaboration with the Go-Nexus Project, held their first workshop for stakeholders in the Zambezi Watercourse, from 12-13 October 2022, to analyze critical issues in the development and management of the shared water resources.

Delegates drawn from the eight Riparian States attended the one and half day dialogue in Harare, Zimbabwe.  ZAMCOM Executive Secretary (ES) Felix Ngamlagosi in his welcome remarks said the aim of the meeting was to introduce the Go-Nexus project to key water, energy, food and ecosystems (WEFE) stakeholders in the watercourse, and to establish a basis for co-operation between the parties.

In pursuit of this goal, the dialogue sought to examine the interconnection or nexus challenges that the project shall tackle using the Go-Nexus methodology.

 

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