Awareness and Communication Strategy Floods and droughts in SADC are the major disasters that confront member states and its citizens. Every country has been affected by recurrent droughts in one way or the other. Floods are recurrent problems particularly in member states with large rivers and having low lying and settled area along such rivers. Warnings are not effectively issued to all stakeholders and such warnings are one way communication from forecasting authorities to the affected areas. Feed back or proactive responses from the affected areas do not find the mechanisms to reach the authorities or other affected areas either downstream or upstream. Initiatives of flood forecasting and warnings or water resources infrastructures that can mitigate effects of droughts or floods are not or may not be known among the stakeholders. There is need to bridge this communication gap. Page 24