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| Rovuma Basin visit |
| Ten Mozambican stakeholders from the Rovuma River Basin, shared by Tanzania and Mozambique, visited the Okavango Delta in early September 2009 as part of a week long exchange trip with the Okavango’s Basin Wide Forum. Hosted by the Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM) Secretariat in Maun, and guided by an Every River Has its People team, the delegation travelled with Botswana country members of the Okavango’s Basin Wide Forum to villages in the Okavango Panhandle to learn how local people who depend on the river for their livelihoods are participating in its planning and management. In November, their Batswana travelling companions paid a return visit to the Rovuma River Basin in Mozambique where a similar transboundary river basin management programme is underway with Tanzania. The exchange is supported by the German development assistance organization, InWent, whose training programmes in sustainable development have recently focused on transboundary river basins in southern Africa. |
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| OKACOM's Secretariat open house for Ngamiland community |
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OKACOM’s Secretariat hosted an open house for the Ngamiland community on October 21st, 2009, to inform the Okavango community about the Secretariat’s location and team members. The Secretariat’s team of five provides a point of contact for issues related to conservation and development issues in the Basin.
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| GEF's Fifth International Waters Conference |
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An OKACOM delegation took part in the Global Environment Facility’s Fifth International Waters Conference in Cairns, Australia from October 24-29, 2009. There, the EPSMO Project team presented initial findings of the Okavango River Basin Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis study that will support development of a strategic action plan for the Basin. |
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| Stakeholders Integration Meeting |
| OKACOM organized a technical workshop to review the outcomes of study to support an integration strategy in the context of the OKACOM strategy in Windhoek, December 15-16 , 2009. |
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| Second African Water Week Conference (AWW2) |
| OKACOM Executive Secretary Dr Eben Chonguiça co-chaired a session, Managing Africa's Transboundary Waters at the Second African Water Week (AWW2) conference for the African Minister's Council on Water (AMCOW) in November 2009 in Johannesburg. AMCOW, as a region-wide ministerial body, has a special responsibility and challenge to facilitate cooperation amongst African river and lake basin organisations. |
