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The geographical scope of the IUCN Southern Africa office is the SADC mainland member states, with the exception of the DRC, Tanzania and Mozambique . This includes: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The focus of the IUCN southern Africa programmatic priorities is primarily centered on shared resources (i.e. transboundary systems) and collaborative management of the natural resource base. This is both in response to regional priorities as well as based on a recognition that this is where IUCN is best placed to add value to the work of the IUCN constituency.
Water resources plays a pivotal role in economic development in Africa. Currently, about half of the African continent faces water stress or water scarcity, with this situation predicted to become significantly worse by 2040, with water demand, resource depletion and climate change causing more countries to feel the impacts of water scarcity.
IUCN has a long history in the water sector in eastern and southern Africa, with a particular focus on the following areas:
• Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), with a particular focus on ecosystem based approaches and climate change adaptation; and
• Good Water Governance, promoting stakeholder engagement at multiple levels, with a particular focus on transboundary waters.
As part of IUCN’s water portfolio, IUCN is implementing a strategy for ‘Building River Dialogue and Governance in Africa’ (BRIDGE-Africa) that is building water governance capacities in African river and lake basins at multiple levels, spanning local, national and transboundary dimensions. BRIDGE-Africa is a programme that aims to improve water cooperation and increase water governance capacity from local to regional levels. The targeted areas in Southern Africa include Pungwe River Basin and Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa (LMNN). BRIDGE is also active in 8 other basins in 4 other regions across IUCN, including in the IGAD region.
IUCN is also developing a number of water related initiatives particularly focused around transboundary water systems and promoting ecosystem based approaches (including environmental flows).
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