The project seeks to achieve integrated, cross-sectoral, ecosystem-based management of the Limpopo River to uplift the living standards of the basin’s population and conserve the basin’s resources and ecosystem services.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with the Global Water Partnership-Southern Africa (GWPSA), is supporting the project “Integrated Transboundary River Basin Management for the Sustainable Development of the Limpopo River Basin”, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). As the GEF implementing entity, the UNDP provides overall oversight of the project with GWPSA being the executing agency, while LIMCOM is the focal custodian of the project implementation.

To achieve its goal of uplifting the living standards of the basin’s population and conserving the basin’s resources and ecosystem services, the project will undertake a suite of activities designed to strengthen joint management and planning capacity and practices at the transboundary basin level. The project intervention logic is structured around five main components:

• Component 1: Capacity Building of LIMCOM and its Member States for joint planning and the basin-wide Strategic Action Programme (SAP) and IWRM implementation
• Component 2: Filling critical knowledge gaps to support joint planning and future development scenario analysis
• Component 3: Informed Strategic Planning and Decision Making to implement the basin-wide IWRM (Science-to-Governance)
• Component 4: The IWRM Plan implementation pilots (demonstration of IWRM practices to address transboundary issues)
• Component 5: Knowledge exchange and information sharing for replication and upscaling

You can read more about the project HERE.

A project portal on the GEF IW:LEARN website is available HERE.

More information about other GEF International Waters projects is available HERE.

To ensure the project provides a transparent and accessible platform for all stakeholders to voice their concerns, a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) was established to address grievances related to project activities at transboundary, national (within the 4 member states –Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe,) and local levels while promoting Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).

The GRM Form allows stakeholders to voice their concerns and more information about the GRM process is available HERE.

O objectivo do projecto é de promover um desenvolvimento sustentável na bacia do Rio Limpopo através da cooperação, gestão e planeamento conjunto dos países, baseado em evidências e coordenada pela LIMCOM com um forte envolvimento das partes interessadas na implementação do Plano de Gestão Integrada de Recursos Hídricos (GIRH) e no desenvolvimento do Plano de Acção Estratégico (SAP) para a Bacia do Rio Limpopo (BRL).

O objective do Donativo do GEF para Preparação do Projecto (GEF PPG) é de densevolver o conceito do projecto em projecto integral “Gestão Integrada Transfronteiriça da Bacia Hidrográfica para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Bacia do Rio Limpopo”. Este projecto visa a promover o desenvolvimento sustentável na Bacia do Rio Limpopo através da aplicação da Gestão Integrada de Recursos Hídricos (GIRH) na escala transfronteriça, nacional, e local convista a balancear os benefícios ambientais, sociais e económicos.

No entanto, o projecto foi concebido para ter 5 componentes:

• Componente 1: Capacitação da LIMCOM e seus Estados Membros para o planemento conjunto e desenvolvimento do Plano de Acção Estratégico e implementação da GIRH;
• Componente 2: Preencher as lacunas criticas de conhecimento para apoiar o planeamento conjunto e levar a cabo a análise de cenários de densevolvimento futuros;
• Componente 3: Planeamento Estratégico e Tomada de Decisão Informada para a implementação da GIRH (Ciência para Governação);
• Componente 4: Implementação do Plano de GIRH (Projectos de demonstração para responder aos assuntos transfronteiriços);
• Componente 5: Troca de Conhecimento e partilha de informação para a replicaçã