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records on the SADC-GLA using a • South Sudan TWP: The project
1.a. Institutions with improved cumulative contingent of six through the National Project
engagement of civil society, Development and Implementation
private sector, and academia academic supervisors (two from
each university) and 17 postgraduate Partners Workshop in South Sudan
students falling within the Young focused on enhancing South Sudan's
FY23 Baseline: Professionals category. National Meteorological and
In FY23, SADRI added the Great Kei, Hydrological services in developing
Tsitsa, Mbashe, Mthatha, Umzimvubu, • Improving WRM in West and Central multi-hazard early-warning systems.
and Mtamvuna river sub-basins in Sahel: The CSO diagnostic was Academia, notably the University of
South Africa. Untapping Resilience updated with two additional Juba, played a crucial role by providing
added the groundwater basins in the countries, Guinea and Senegal; Youth scientific expertise and educational
HoA borderlands. The Pafuri-Sengwe Transboundary Water Parliament resources. Its involvement supported
Joint Park Management Committee, from Burkina Faso participation in capacity-building initiatives, ensuring
GLTFCA Joint Management Board, NBI, SIWI World Water Week. that these services and stakeholders
and NBD delivered explicit are equipped with relevant
communication and community • NCCR: ENTRO, Nile-SEC, and NBD information about South Sudan’s
stakeholder engagement activities hosted internship and YP programs. hydrology to manage and use
including for investment preparation ENTRO conducted community field early-warning systems effectively,
and conflict mitigation (Untapping surveys in flood-prone areas, thereby enhancing resilience to
Resilience), gender equality (NBD), and including Akobo, Malakal, Pibor, Nasir, natural hazards. The stakeholder
research and training activities to Gambela, and Itang, which have been engagement strategy ensures that
support communities’ climate completed and will be used as input gender issues are actively integrated
resilience (SADRI). for modeling and community into the design and implementation of
awareness. ENTRO also water management and development
FY24 Actual: strengthened flood community activities. For instance, during the
awareness and preparedness for 17 planning phase of a study to map
• Sustainable Groundwater Management flood-prone sites—comprising humanitarian and development actors
in SADC member states Phase 2: The seven locations in Ethiopia (in the in refugee settlements and host
project facilitated MOUs between sub-basins Tekeze-Setit-Atbara, communities, specific measures to
SADC-GMI and three universities Lake Tana, Baro-Akobo-Sobat), four address gender inequalities were
(University of Botswana, University of in South Sudan (sub-basin incorporated. The study's Terms of
Mzuzu, and University of Namibia) to Baro-Akobo-Sobat), and six in Sudan Reference explicitly include
gather and upload additional (sub-basin Tekeze-Setit-Atbara). provisions to comprehensively track

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