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Southern Africa

Country / amount Project Description Status

Zambia Groundwater mapping Characterize aquifers in the Procurement
and development at Sihumbwa area, determine stage.
Base Grant: $125,000 Sihumbwa Basic School in water demand for Sihumbwa
In-kind Contribution: $12,500 Kazungula District, school and the surrounding
Total: $137,500 Southern Province community to supply clean and
safe water to Sihumbwa Health
Post, construct three boreholes,
design and build a
solar-powered water supply
network to the school, clinic,
and the community, and
protect the Sihumbwa
catchment from deforestation.

Zimbabwe Groundwater The project will install a real-time Stakeholder
monitoring in the Save telemetric system to enable engagement
Base Grant: $119,000
Alluvial Aquifer sustainable management. undertaken.
In-kind Contribution: $0 Activities include redesigning the Geophysical
Total: $119,000 monitoring network, rehabilitating studies being
monitoring wells, training staff on undertaken.
the telemetric system, and holding
community awareness meetings.

Next Steps
ne of the greatest challenges
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that the region still faces despite
ongoing initiatives is huge gaps in the
understanding of groundwater
resources. Acknowledging the important
role of information and communities in
the region, in FY25 the project aims to
improve citizen science by conducting
participatory research to draw out the
knowledge of communities about the
value of biodiversity, which will facilitate
testing new solutions to key regional
groundwater challenges. It will also
generate data to feed into the DSS for
climate adaptation and resilient
livelihoods. The project also aims to roll
out implementation of the Policy, Legal,
and Institutional Framework for
sustainable groundwater development
in the member states that have
developed framework roadmaps (DRC,
Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, and Zambia).
The project also will implement priority
activities from the Joint Strategic Action
Programs to foster shared development
and governance of groundwater in the
RBOs and transboundary aquifers.

Group photo of the participants of May 2024
meeting organized by the CIWA / World Bank
RCRP Technical Team meeting, Johannesburg,
South Africa, hosted by the Southern Africa
Development Commission (SADC). ©SADC

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