34th SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, hosted by Zimbabwe at Victoria Falls, 17-18 August. SARDC Executive Director, Munetsi Madakufamba, is attending, with two other senior staff providing daily coverage of the event and related issues. Joseph Ngwawi, Head of SARDC’s Regional Economic Development Institute (REDI) and Senior Research-Writer, Kizito Sikuka. SARDC produced the main Summit book/brochure for SADC, and special issues of Southern Africa Today (SADC Today) for June and August 2014.
SARDC Finance and Administration Manager, Dambudzo Jambwa, is in Shanghai, China attending a Seminar on Fiscal Science Management for Development Countries from 24 July to 13 August.
The new Executive Secretary of the Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM), Dr Z Phiri, visited SARDC on 8 August, accompanied by the Senior Advisor, John Metzger. They met with the SARDC Executive Director, Munetsi Madakufamba, and Egline Tauya, head of SARDC’s I Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa (IMERCSA) and others, for familiarization with current joint activities with ZAMCOM. SARDC IMERCSA is a knowledge partner of ZAMCOM, and produces the periodical The Zambezi. IMERCSA and ZAMCOM are also working on the Zambezi Environment Outlook, a full-length report to be published in 2015. This updates the State of Environment Zambezi Basin 2000, which was the first environmental assessment of a single ecosystem in the SADC region.
