The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) has supported the launch of a new fund to strengthen ecosystem resilience and improve livelihoods in the Cubango-Okavango river basin – a major water system stretching across Angola, Botswana and Namibia.
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Country by country: overviews of CRIDF action
CRIDF has produced a series of 11 Country Overviews to succinctly present the full scope of its engagement in projects within each Southern African Development Community country. Given the Facility’s numerous streams of activities across Southern Africa, many of which are transboundary initiatives spanning multiple countries, these briefs were created to make it easy for anyone…
OKACOM Technical Committee members assess critical flood gauges in Angola
This January, a team of water experts from four countries travelled along 3,000 kilometres of rural Angolan roads, in order to assess four very remote, but potentially life-saving, flood gauges. While floods regularly devastate communities in multiple floodplains – including Botswana’s Okavango Delta – they often begin with heavy rainfall in Angola’s remote tributaries. The…