ZAMADZI

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MSc projects

Long-term training through MSc studies is one of our main activities. To maximize our local impact we are teaming up with the Faculty of Engineering of Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo.

PhD research

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.

Short-duration courses

Through short-duration courses we will actively improve the capacity of Requesting Organizations’ and stakeholders’ staff in Integrated Water Resources Management.

Action research

Action research, consists in solving an existing problem while simultaneously doing research and reporting on the process and on its outcomes.

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.

IWRM for the Zambezi Valley

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.

— Global Water Partnership

Publications

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.

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.

Presentations and reports

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.

Future search

Here at ZAMADZI we have a lot to thank to our colleagues at Perspectivity who introduced us to the concept of Future Search conferences.

Investment on books for physical libraries

by André Arsénio29 de April de 202030 de April de 2020

Throughout 2019 we were busy ordering books for the physical libraries of our project members.

Impact of corona virus pandemic on project activities

by André Arsénio24 de March de 2020

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…

Short courses in 2019

by André Arsénio11 de February de 202012 de February de 2020

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.

The year in retrospective – 2019’s edition

by André Arsénio13 de December de 201914 de January de 2020

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.

Cooperation with EAWAG in the short-course program

by André Arsénio30 de September de 201923 de October de 2019

For more than a year we have been busy lecturing EAWAG‘s MOOC series “Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development”, in parallel we also translated the course material into Portuguese. With three training sessions done and the translations now complete,…

Recap of the last three months

by André Arsénio10 de April de 201924 de April de 2019

For the past few months we have been quite busy here at ZAMADZI preparing all the activities planned for 2019 and supporting the ongoing ones. I am now taking the opportunity to update you on the last developments.