To identify and prepare potential investment projects in one or more areas: water supply & sanitation, irrigated agriculture, hydropower, navigation, flood control, water security through multi-purpose reservoirs, and sustainable management of wetlands.
To increase knowledge of the Shire and Zambezi Rivers to explore the feasibility of reopening the waterway for transportation. Project involves a Feasibility Study and preparation of an Investment Plan.
Component I:
Preparation of Shared Vision 2050 and Songwe River Basin Development Programme (SRBDP)
Component II: Updating Feasibility, Detailed Design and Preparation of Capital Investments
Component III: Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment; and
Component IV: Institutional Development
To contribute to improved socio-economic conditions in Central Africa through implementing the Framework, ensuring better management of water resources.
The proposed L-BWT is a priority investment project selected for development under the Integrated Water Resources Management Plan of the Orange-Senqu River Basin. The project comprises the development of a dam and water storage reservoir in the Lesotho Lowlands, and a bulk water conveyance system from the reservoir, through South Africa to Botswana, over an estimated distance of 712Kms.
1) To undertake a full feasibility study, prepare detailed engineering design and to tender documents for the Angololo dam/ diversion weir intake and irrigation infrastructure and watershed management plan
2) To conduct an independent Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and prepare a Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for the Angololo dam/ diversion weir intake and irrigation infrastructure.
The objective of the project is to support Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea in setting up a formal framework for the sustainable management of shared water resources, a water resources monitoring system, and to carry out two priority investment studies. The project activities are structured around three components: (i) Support for the creation of a Transboundary Basin Organization (TBO) and capacity building; (ii) Preparation of investment studies (taking into account gender aspects) and monitoring of water resources; and (iii) Project management.
The objectives of the project are to prepare an optimised water resources development investment strategy and plan with the IWRM implementation roadmap for the Orange-Senqu River Basin and preparation of multipurpose project for implementation in the short term time frame. Climate resilience will be integrated in the planning and development of water infrastructure. Investment financing and resources mobilisation strategies will be developed in both cases. The project promotes capacity building and institutional development as part of the stakeholders’ consultation process.