Publications
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Building off existing collaborative efforts, this document aims to create alignment around a common understanding of key terms and concepts and offers guidance on how policy can enable a circular economy, especially regarding plastic and other materials, in the United States.
This document has both common definitions, which can be used in legislative contexts to set the scope for related programs, and recommendations by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for how these programs and definitions should function. This guidance is intended for policymakers, government agencies, and other public sector groups with an interest in establishing and implementing policy that enables a circular economy at the local, state, and national levels.
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The Cuando River Basin Report Card is part of a larger project, "Water Partnership for a Resilient Cuando Basin", funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and supported by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), the Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM) and the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA).
The Cuando River Basin Report Card began with a stakeholder workshop that took place from 9–11 March 2020 in Kasane, Botswana. More than 35 diverse stakeholders from 19 institutions came together at this workshop to conceptualize the river basin, create a shared vision, and discuss indicators for the Cuando River Basin Report Card.
The report card aims to strengthen transboundary water governance and inclusive decision-making mechanisms across the four countries (implementing states) that the basin traverses: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia.
Without a shared transboundary vision that balances the needs of people and the environment, these pressures could result in negative impacts to the basin and the people who live within it.
This work will ultimately help ensure inclusive and sustainable water resource management and increased water security for the benefit of people and ecosystems in the Cuando River Basin, and downstream in the Zambezi Basin.
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The Cuando River Basin is one of the thirteen Sub basins of the Zambezi Watercourse. The Cuando River provides critical water resources to the heart of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), the largest terrestrial transfrontier conservation area on the planet. The KAZA region, where Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe converge is home to 2.5 million people, shelters half of Africa‚'s remaining savannah elephant population, and is critical for many other important wildlife species. The Cuando Basin has remained largely undeveloped, with a population of less than 200,000 people, but in recent years is seeing increasing pressure due to climate changes and unsustainable use of natural resources such as water, forests and land.
Without a shared transboundary vision that balances the needs of people and the environment, these pressures could result in negative impacts to the basin and the people who live within it. At the core of such a shared vision is inclusive and sustainable integrated water resource management (IWRM) and increased water security for the benefit of people and ecosystems in the Cuando River Basin, and downstream in the Zambezi Watercourse. Attaining the shared vision in turn requires effective management of water resources, transboundary water governance forums and innovative partnerships.
The State of the Cuando River Basin Report is part of the outputs of a larger project entitled "Transboundary Governance of the Cuando; Protecting
the Heart of Southern Africa" funded by the United States Department of State (USDOS) and supported by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF); the Zambezi Watercourse Commission (ZAMCOM); and the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) Secretariat.
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