River Basin Management in Southern Africa
ORNL Collaboration with USAID in Southern Africa (Overview Presentation)
Southern Africa Development Community: 15 shared river basins
- Okavango Basin Commission (OKACOM)
- Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
- NRM governance
- Protocols for Water and Biodiversity
- Mechanism for dialogue (commissions of riparian states)
- Data collection and management
Development Challenge
- Water scarcity
- Competition among states and uses
- Human welfare and biodiversity
- Improve collaborative management of shared river basin resources
- Support monitoring
- Evaluation
- Design
- Technical analysis
- Management
- Evaluation
- Action Plans
- Revised PMP
- RFP and supporting documents
Examples of documents developed with ORNL support
- SAREP Request for Proposals 674-09-013 (Scope of Work; Decemeber 2008)
- Compilation of comments receieved on the Draft Concept Paper (Sept 2008)
- Southern Africa Regional Environmental Program (SAREP) Concept Paper (August 2008)
- Monitoring and evaluation plan and supporting documents (July 2008)
- Regional Criteria for USAID SAREP Support (March 2008)
- Summary of Evaluation Findings, Recommendations, Next Steps and Action Plan (July 2007)
- Programmatic Evaluation, Final Report for USAID Regional River Basin Management Program (July 2007)
- January-March 2009
- October-December 2008
- August-September 2008
- Feburary-March 2008
- January-March 2008
For more information, contact:
Keith Kline (klinekl@ornl.gov, 865-574-4230)
