AFCRI-Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC Member States

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The objective of the Sustainable Groundwater Management in Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States Project for Africa is to support sustainable management of groundwater at national and transboundary levels across SADC Member States. The project has 4 components. (1) Operationalizing the SADC Groundwater Management Institute (GMI) component will ensure the coordination and administration of the SADC GMI during project implementation. (2) Strengthening institutional capacity for the sustainable management of groundwater in SADC component will finance legal, policy and regulatory frameworks which will address prevailing gaps in institutional groundwater management tools at national and transboundary levels. (3) Advancing knowledge on transboundary and national groundwater component will finance the support to Transboundary Aquifer Management in Member States and in collaboration with relevant government authorities and River Basin Organisations (RBOs) in finding solutions to shared groundwater challenges through Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) and Strategic Action Plans (SAP) alongside mechanisms for data collection and sharing. (4) Promoting groundwater infrastructure management and development component will promote the role of infrastructure as a means to develop opportunities for more sustainable management of groundwater and addressing growing challenges related to issues such as drought, recharge, pollution, conjunctive land-water management, water and food security, climate change etc. in Member States.