Awareness and Communication Strategy
b) Development and adoption of enabling environment for peaceful utilization of shared
water resources that enable the water sector contribution to poverty reduction and
regional integration with key outputs on institutional instruments such as the Protocol,
Shared Watercourse Commissions, Regional Strategies, etc.;
c) Disaster risk reduction through dissemination and communicating data and
information on floods and droughts with key outputs on Hydrological Monitoring
through the work of the SADC HYCOS project;
d) Creation of regional knowledge base on water and related resources that facilitates
joint planning, development and utilization of water resources with key outputs such
as those on Groundwater Management (Dissemination of Code of Good Practice and
Guidelines for Groundwater Development in the SADC Region, compilation of a
Regional Hydro-geological Map and Atlas for the SADC Region (on going) and
groundwater Assessment of the Limpopo Basin, dissemination and sharing of data
and information on water, etc.);
e) Joint water resources developments that foster regional integration such as Integrated
Water Resources Development Strategies for Zambezi River basin, Pungwe River
basin, Okavango river basin, Kunene River basin, etc); and,
f) Regional institutional capacity building with outputs on capacity building such as
Waternet, WARFSA, Training of Practicing Professionals in Integrated Water
Resources Management (IWRM), IWRM Demonstration projects, and the Regional
Water Infrastructure Programme.
Detailed information on achievements of the Water Programme is available in the
Implementation Toolkit for this Strategy and these will be updated regularly by the RSAP
Management to provide recent examples of what the SADC Water Sector is delivering to
SADC citizens through the RSAP.
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