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Transboundary River Basins and River Basin Organisations in SADC Table 4.7
Watercourse Countries Shared water institution/River
Basin Organization
Buzi Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Congo DRC, Cameroon, Central African Republic International Commission of the
Congo­ Oubangui­Sangha Basin

Cuvelai Angola, Namibia Cuvelai Watercourse Commission
Incomati Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa
Kunene Angola, Namibia
Limpopo Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Limpopo Watercourse Commission
Zimbabwe

Cubango­Okavango Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe Permanent Okavango River Basin
Water Commission
Orange­Senqu Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Orange­Senqu River
Africa Commission
Pungwe Mozambique, Zimbabwe

116 Ruvuma Mozambique, Tanzania
Save/Sabi Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Umbeluzi Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa
Zambezi Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Zambezi Watercourse Commission
Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania,
Zambia, Zimbabwe
Source SADCSecretariat

Top Position in Water Cooperation
SADC was ranked in the top position in 2015 in a global comparison of indicators of
water cooperation prepared by an international think-tank, the Strategic Foresight Group
(SFG). According to SFG’s Water Cooperation Quotient Index 2015, SADC scored 100
in the Water Cooperation Quotient, which is a tool with a set of ten indicators created to
measure the intensity of cooperation in the management of shared water resources in
shared river basins globally. The 10 indicators included legal, political, technical, environ-
mental, economic and institutional aspects.

Groundwater Development and Management
The SADC Groundwater Management Institute (GMI) was established in June 2011 as a
non-profit organisation under the South African Companies Act. The SADC GMI is
hosted by the University of Free State within the Institute for Groundwater Studies (IGS).
The SADC GMI is now fully functional and the Subsidiarity Status with the SADC
Secretariat was duly approved by Council at its last meeting in August 2018 in Windhoek,
Namibia. This was after the Secretariat developed and submitted a Financial Sustainability
Strategy and Plan which indicated that the SADC GMI will be sustained beyond the cur-
rent Project financing.