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*NEW* The second edition of the Zambezi Today July -December 2022 is now out. The items featured in this edition include the funding of ZAMCOM for the Nature, People and Climate (NPC) investment program by the Climate Investment Fund (CIF), the promotion of shared management of surface and groundwater resources through collaboration with SADC-GMI, as well as the steady progression to mainstreaming gender equality and social inclusion in development planning and implementation by ZAMCOM...... Read more and download the copy here
The edition of Zambezi Today June 2022 is out. Among other issues covered and not to be missed out in the Vol.1 No 1 is the Interview with the New ZAMCOM Executive Secretary, towards climate-smart investments in the Zambezi Watercourse, Climate-smart adaptation strategies for the Zambezi Watercourse as well as the launch of Kwando/Cuando River Basin Report Health Card and the State of the River Basin Report in June 2022. Read more and download the copy here
Innovative and integrated approaches to water, energy and food security management are required in the Zambezi Basin are required to optimize to use of resources, balance competing demands and maximize benefits. As the three sectors are inextricably linked, uncoordinated development and management in one area has the capacity to negatively impact on the others.
Food security is under threat in the Zambezi River Basin following a prediction of El Niño weather during the 2015/16 agricultural season.The rainfall outlook released by experts at the 19th Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-19) held late August in 2015 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, indicates that southern Africa is expected to receive insufficient rainfall from October 2015 to March 2016.
The recently signed protocol on the Facilitation of Movement of Persons in the SADC region has much to offer the Zambezi River Basin where communities share assets, cultural values, traditional leadership, economic opportunities and languages.
THE LONG-AWAITED policy organ of the Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM), the Council of Ministers, was constituted this year, thus completing all levels of the structure and enabling the full operations of the permanent commission in 2014.
Faced with a crippling shortage of electricity, Zambezi basin riparian states are making efforts to increase power generation and distribution, and prevent total darkness.
The Africa Water Task Force is to embark on a Millennium Development Goals (MDG) road show later this year in Southern Africa to encourage governments and communities seeking to improve water supplies to “make it happen”
WATER, ENERGY and Food Security are closely interlinked and river basin organisations have an important role in facilitating an integrated approach to water resources management that supports development in the other sectors.
The process that led to the formation of the Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZamCom) has had major impact on southern Africa’s perspective of transboundary issues. It propelled these issues to the top of the political agenda in SADC.
CLIMATE AND human pressure on resources are significantly changing the environment in the Zambezi river basin, as illustrated in a publication to be launched in 2013, the Zambezi River Basin Atlas of the Changing Environment.