SARDC Founding Director, Phyllis Johnson, visited Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 23-28 October, regarding a commemorative publication about SARDC’s Founding Patron, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere. She met with the former President, H.E. Benjamin W. Mkapa; the Mozambique Ambassador, H.E. VM Veloso; and Walter Bgoya, who is Chairperson of Mkuki na Nyota, the publishers of Hashim Mbita’s SADC History Project. She also met with Mary Rusimbi, a SARDC Board Member, who is Executive Director of the new Women Fund Tanzania (WFT) and Chairperson of the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP).
Global Environment Outlook 6 Intergovernmental and Multi‐stakeholder Consultation 21‐23 October 2014, Berlin, Germany. UNEP’s Division of Early Warning and Assessment (UNEP/DEWA) is organizing the above consultation. The aim of the global consultation is to agree on the objectives, scope and processes for GEO-6, which will culminate in the production of the GEO-6 assessment report and a Summary for Policy Makers. The GEO assessment is a core UNEP activity aimed at keeping the global environment under review. To date, five assessments have been published on various time scales (1997, 1999, 2002 and 2007 and 2012). SARDC is a collaboration centre of UNEP for southern Africa and contributes to the environmental assessment including the Africa Environment Outlook (AEO) SARDC IMERCSA has contributed to the previous AEO and GEO reports. Egline attending
SADC 6th River Basin Organisation workshop 15-17 October Johannesburg, South Africa. The theme for this year’s workshop is “Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Resilience in water Related Disasters”. This initiative is aimed at enhancing the coordination amongst the relevant institutions as well as optimizing the readiness of the river basin organisations for floods and other climate change impacts.
LIMCOM, ORASECOM, OKACOM, ZAMCOM, CICOS and other River Basins in SADC and beyond will be presenting on their on-going activities, their activities with regards to Flood Risk Management (FRM) and Drought Risk Management (DRM) as well as the challenges faced. The workshop will also provide input to the next phase of the SADC Water Programme (RSAP IV). The workshop is organised by SADC Water Division in collaboration with GWP SA. SARDC work closely with the river basin. Egline attending
SARDC Founding Director, Phyllis Johnson, attended a seminar on China-Africa Peace and Security Cooperation on 16 October in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted by the Chinese embassy and the Inter Region Economic Network (IREN). She presented a paper titled “Peace and Security Cooperation Within Africa, the opportunities for closer partnership with China through sub-regional organizations: A case study from the Southern African Development Community (SADC)”. She attended on behalf of SARDC’s new Institute on China Africa Studies in Southern Africa (ICASSA), and other participants included senior scholars from leading think tanks and universities in Africa and China. The keynote speaker was H.E. Ambassador Zhong Jianhua, Special Representative on African Affairs for the Chinese Government. The African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security was represented by H.E. Ambassador Francisco Madeira from Mozambique, who is Director of the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism, based in Algiers, Algeria, and Special Representative of the AU Chairperson for Counter-terrorism Cooperation.
