Launching of UNDP-GEF Support to the Cubango-Okavango River Basin

Through funding from the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and co-financing from OKACOM partners and riparian government is supporting OKACOM to implement its Strategic Action Programme over a period of 4 years. The project is aimed at strengthening joint management and cooperative decision making on the sustainable utilisation of natural resources to address livelihoods and socio-economic development challenges in the Cubango-Okavango River Basin.

Amongst others, the project is piloting six low impact livelihoods development projects across the basin. The pilot projects are focused on three sub-thematic areas of the Livelihoods and Socio-economic Development theme of the Strategic Action Program of OKACOM: i) community-based tourism; ii) fisheries co-management; and, iii) conservation agriculture to improve food security at local level in all three countries (Angola, Botswana and Namibia).