PhD research is very relevant both for the Requesting Organizations and for the Valley as a way to address some of the challenges that the region is facing in relation to Water Resources Management.
Through short-duration courses we will actively improve the capacity of Requesting Organizations’ and stakeholders’ staff in Integrated Water Resources Management.
ZAMADZI consists in the merge of the fragment ZAM from Zambezi, and the word MADZI which means water, with a few variations, in Banthu languages: manzi in Zulu; maji in Swahili; and mati in Shangaan. Just like this family of languages, the waters of the Zambezi are shared among millions of people and enable daily life. However, sharing the Zambezi is complex and the river must be exploited in a sustainable way, with national and international agreements being fully respected. We argue that can only be achieved if local populations, governments and the private sector have capacity to adequately manage their water – which is what our project aims at doing.
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximise economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems and the environment.
Knowledge sharing and access to information is very important in Integrated Water Resources Management so we want to start by making all relevant project documents publicly available. So please check our Presentations and reports and Thesis and articles.
Here we will share all MSc and PhD thesis that will be authored by people involved in our project. We will also include peer-reviewed and conference articles.
Here you can access our technical documentation, including presentations, reports and posters. We have sorted the list of documents according to the event where it was presented.
We have resumed our face-to-face short-duration course program for 2020 with my course on EPANET. This is all happening while the Covid-19 pandemic is ravaging the world. Read all about our experience.
An important element of the ZAMADZI project is to improve the gender balance in and around the Requesting Organisations (ROs). I am taking the opportunity here to give an overview of the gender related activities until now.
With almost 400,000 cases of Corona virus across the world many countries are in lock-down and it seems that it will still take some weeks for the number of new cases to plateau in Europe and in the US. Having…
Throughout 2019 we trained dozens of staff from the project Requesting Organizations in our short-duration course program and, as promised in the previous post, I am now taking the opportunity to discuss it in more detail.
It’s that period of the year again: Christmas is coming and we start looking back and understanding what we did, what went well and what we should do differently in 2020.
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