About the Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit

The Orange-Senqu River Commission

This Version 2.0 of the Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit was created for the Orange-Senqu River Basin Commission (ORASECOM), with technical inputs from the Technical Task Team, Commissioners and other key stakeholders.

For more information about ORASECOM or the Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit, please contact ORASECOM at:

Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM)
Lenka Thamae, Executive Secretary
Block A, 66 Corporate Park, 
Cnr Von Willich & Lenchen Streets,
Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa

Tel:+27 12 336 7794;
Fax:+249-183-784248

Email: Lenka.Thamae@orasecom.org
Web site: www.orasecom.org

The Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit

The Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit (Orange-Senqu RAK) is an on-line and DVD-ROM-based tool designed to support capacity development in ORASECOM and raise awareness for transboundary water issues in southern Africa. This central focal point for knowledge related to the Orange-Senqu River basin serves as a hub for information management and dissemination for ORASECOM. The structure of the Orange-Senqu RAK (themes and chapters) was defined through participatory processes involving stakeholders from all four basin states of the Orange-Senqu River basin.

Project outputs from the ongoing programe of technical activities managed by ORASECOM will be integrated as they become available along with the results of other relevant studies.

Funding

The development of the Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in delegated cooperation in with UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). This partnership is supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) through the implementation of the Transboundary Water Management in SADC Programme. For more information on this programme, please contact:

GIZ Transboundary Water Management in SADC Programme

Dr Horst Michael Vogel (Programme Director)
Private Bag X12 (Village), Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: +267 310 2501
E-mail: Horst.Vogel@giz.de

Acknowledgements

ORASECOM, GIZ, UKAid, AusAID and Hatfield Consultants would like to thank the ORASECOM delegations from the four basins states for their valuable contributions to this initiative.

Project implementation

Hatfield Consultants www.hatfieldgroup.com

Thomas Kruchem - thomas.kruchem@gmx.net

www.riverawarenesskit.org

Contributions

Technical Implementation

Design and Multimedia Development

Writers

Excerpts from 'The Stolen Water and Other Stories: Traditional Tales from Namibia', Davis, J. 1993. New Namibia Books, Windhoek, Namibia - with kind permission from Gamsberg-MacMillan Books, Namibia.

Excerpts from 'Muzimbikana and Other Namibian Adventures', Namibia Oral Tradition Project 1997. New Namibia Books, Windhoek, Namibia - with kind permission from Gamsberg-MacMillan Books, Namibia.

Photographers

  • Thomas Kruchem
  • Dr.Horst Michael Vogel - GIZ Transboundary Water Management in SADC programme
  • Hatfield Consultants
  • Andreas Shilomboleni – Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Namibia)
  • Callie De Wet
  • Chris Roux – Roux Pecans
  • Department of Water Affairs (Botswana)
  • Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Namibia)
  • Department of Water Affairs (South Africa)
  • Desert Research Foundation of Namibia
  • Dr. Hans Beekman
  • Olivier Langand – Conservation International
  • Gregory Christelis – Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Namibia)
  • GIZ Transboundary Water Management in SADC programme
  • Jürgen Kirchner
  • Keith Carey – Flight Line
  • Kerri Garner
  • Lesotho Water Commission
  • Mark Reed – University of Aberdeen
  • Nobuhle Hughes
  • Peter Pyke – Department of Water Affairs (South Africa)
  • Ronnie McKenzie WRP Consulting
  • SADC Corporate Communications and Logistics
  • Tim Rolston – Inkwazi Fly Fishing

Audio segments

  • Thomas Kruchem

Video

Technical Contributions

  • Dr. Chris Dickens and Darryn Knoesen, Institute for Natural Resources, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
  • Ms. Winnie Kambinda - Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Namibia
  • Ms. Bogadi Mathangwane - Department of Water Affairs, Botswana
  • Mr. Mike Silberbauer, Resource Quality Services, Department of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa
  • Dr. Gideon Tredoux - South Africa
  • Dr. France Lamy - Google.org
  • Mr. Peter Birch - Google

Additional Creative Work

Documentation

  • ORASECOM
  • Department of Water Affairs, Botswana
  • Lesotho Water Commission, Lesotho
  • Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Namibia
  • Department of Water Affairs, South Africa
  • SADC Secretariat
  • GIZ
  • UNDP/GEF
  • Institute for Natural Resources, University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa
  • Global Water Partnership (GWP)
  • Swedish International Water Institute (SIWI)
  • United Nations World Water Development Programme
  • WWF

Data

The data used in the maps in the Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit are as follows:

  • Atlas of Namibia
  • CGIAR
  • Conservation International
  • Department of Water Affairs, South Africa
  • Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Namibia
  • FAO GeoNetworks
  • GeoTerraImage
  • Institute for Natural Resources, University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa
  • Ramsar
  • United Nations Development Progamme (UNDP)/Global Environment Facility (GEF) project (RAISON Namibia)
  • USGS
  • WWF

All photographic elements of this website/CD-ROM are protected under copyright to ORASECOM, unless otherwise stated.

 
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