Integrated Transboundary River Basin Management for the Sustainable Development of the Limpopo River Basin

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.

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