Partners

SADC-Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI) is supporting CUVECOM through a signed MOU on 29th May 2020. The MoU primary objective is to “strengthen and extend the existing collaboration between CUVECOM and SADC-GMI to support the fulfilment of the two organisations’ mandates”. The Parties will collaborate and cooperate in the following areas:

1. Transboundary cooperation that will facilitate the integration and harmonisation of groundwater provisions between the national and basin level commitments;

2. Support the need to update protocols/agreements with reference to solutions to address shared groundwater challenges, sharing of data and benefits from the cooperation;

3. Promotion of Transboundary Aquifer Management in the riparian Member States and in collaboration with relevant government authorities;

4. Jointly finding solutions to shared groundwater challenges through Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) and Strategic Action Plans (SAP).

5. Research on groundwater challenges in CUVECOM Transboundary Aquifers.

6. Collaborate on the establishment and operationalisation of institutional arrangements for shared Transboundary Aquifer management;

7. Joint planning and implementation of activities such as workshops, research projects, etc including solicitation of funding where necessary;

8. Information and Communication Technologies for knowledge sharing platform to build an integrated data management system.

9. Collaborate on Capacity development issues on transboundary water-related issues in the riparian Member States