Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission

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Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission
OKACOM
 
 
English name Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission
Portuguese Comissão Permanente da Água da Bacia Hidrográfica do Okavango
Seat of the organs Gaborone , BotswanaBotswanaBotswana 
Member States
Official and working languages

English , Portuguese

founding

1994

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The Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission abbreviated OKACOM ( Portuguese Comissão Permanente da Água da Bacia Hidrográfica do Okavango ; German about "Permanent Water Commission for the Okavango Basin ") is a multinational organization of the African states Angola , Botswana and Namibia for the coordinated use of water resources on their Territories. The administrative headquarters are in Gaborone (Botswana).

development

OKACOM came into being on September 15, 1994 through the founding resolution of representatives of the three participating states in Windhoek and then started its work. Until 2002, however, the civil war in Angola impaired the start and development work within this organization.

In May 2007, the member states agreed an agreement on the organizational structure of OKACOM ( OKACOM Structure Agreement ). This agreement provides for three structural units within OKACOM. Accordingly, there are the following organizational units : the Commission, the Steering Committee for the Okavango Basin Steering Committee (OBSC) and the Secretariat (OKASEC). The commission serves as the main body of OKACOM and is responsible for the direction of the jointly pursued policy as well as for the supervision of the activities of the organization.

The Swedish government supported the establishment process in OKACOM with the development organization Swedish International Development Agency . There was also financial aid from the Global Environment Facility , the United Nations Development Program and USAID .

tasks

The tasks of OKACOM consist in providing technical advice to the contractual partners on issues relating to the conservation, development and use of water resources that are of common interest to the three countries. The contractors undertook to provide the Commission with the information it needs to carry out their tasks and to keep it informed of any planned developments or other matters falling within the remit of the Commission.

Territorial jurisdiction

OKACOM's territorial jurisdiction extends to the Cubango-Okavango water system with a total length of no more than 1900 kilometers. The numerous individual source regions are located in a precipitation-rich section of Angola and develop in the course of the water system to the main tributaries Cubango (later the Okavango), Cuebe and Cuito . Namibia made the following major are Riviere tapering the Okavangobecken: Daneib , Eiseb , Epukiro , Hanahai , Xaudom , Nama , Ngamaseri , OKWA and Omatako . The watercourses of the system end through evaporation and seepage in the Kalahari sands of the arid basin structure of the Okavango Delta , seasonally over the Boteti also in the Ntwetwe pan . These areas are among the least inhabited parts of Botswana.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Okavango River Basin . at www.internationalwatersgovernance.com . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Ebenizário Chonguiça, Tracy Molefi: Benefits of Transboundary Water Cooperation “Counting our Gains”. Cubango-Okavango River Basin Case Study . OKACOM, Gaborone 2014, online at www.unece.org (English, PDF; 604 kB), PDF document p. 3.
  3. ↑ FAO : Country profile - Botswana . FAO Aquastat Reports, Rome 2005, on www.fao.org (English, PDF; 871 kB), PDF document p. 3.