1. Executive Secretary: Orange Senqu River Commission
  2. TERMS OF REFERENCE For The Appointment of a Service Provider for The Review of The Estuarine Management Plan (EMP) For The Orange – Senqu River Mouth Estuary
  3. PROCUREMENT, SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF EQUIPMENT FOR /AI- /AIS NATIONAL PARK AND DREIHUK PROSOPIS HARVESTING SITES, IN NAMIBIA
  4. Consultancy services to facilitate the marketing and sales of prosopis products for /ai-/ais, dreihuk, gibeon and mariental pilot sites
  5. Procurement for supply, installation, training and commissioning of water quality monitoring and laboratory equipment for Orasecom member state of Lesotho
  6. Consulting Services – Water Information System (WIS)
  7. Support to the Orange River Mouth rehabilitation project
  8. Namibia prepares for combating Prosopis
  9. ORASECOM is hiring consultants
  10. 4th SADC Groundwater Conference 10-12 November 2021
  11. Botswana Desalination Plant Project Launched
  12. 39th IAHR World Congress
  13. Water is a matter of life and death – Opinion piece
  14. Webinar: Transboundary Water Management under conditions of Climate and Political Uncertainty: Middle Eastern and South African Perspectives
  15. World Water Week Groundwater Webinar
  16. Interview with Lenka Thamae, Executive Secretary of ORASECOM on the Lesotho-Botswana Water Transfer scheme
  17. Webinar Series: Groundwater – Base Rock of Resilience
  18. Climate Resilient Water Resources Investment Strategy & Plan & Lesotho-Botswana Water Transfer (L-BWT) Project
  19. GIZ
  20. Joint Water Resources Quality Survey (JBS)
  21. FGEF Support
  22. Water Information System (WIS)
  23. Joint Irrigation Authority (JIA)
  24. Water Information System (WIS)
  25. Adequate Rainfall Predicted for SADC October-December Season
  26. Orange-Senqu Basin Wide Groundwater Survey
  27. Fundraising for the Lesotho-Botswana Water Transfer Project
  28. Orange-Senqu River Awareness Kit
  29. International Conference on FRESH WATER GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 5th – 7th November, 2012, Champagne Sports Resort, Central Drakensburg (KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa
  30. 4th Orange-Senqu River Basin Symposium, 6th – 7th June 2012, Campus of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
  31. The African Transboundary River Basin Support Programme came to an end
  32. Towards Transboundary Evironmental Assessment Guidelines for the Orange-Senqu River Basin
  33. ORASECOM initiates work on the Orange-Senqu River Learning Box
  34. The ORASECOM Secretariat takes delivery of a three dimensional map of the basin
  35. ORASECOM publishes its “State of the Orange-Senqu River System” Report
  36. ORASECOM initiates work on the Orange-Senqu River Learning Box
  37. Training on Aquatic Ecosystem Health Monitoring
  38. The Urban Pollution Workshop at Mohale Dam
  39. Phase 2 of an IWRM Plan Development Project came to an end
  40. ORASECOM opens the Secretariat offices
  41. ORASECOM is visited by the Volta Basin Authority
  42. Training on Water Resources Yield Simulation Models
  43. ORASECOM at the 3rd Africa Water Week in Addis Ababa
  44. ORASECOM comes of age at 10!
  45. ORASECOM participates in the 13th International RiverSymposium
  46. ORASECOM works with the Benguela Current Commission
  47. Environmental Flows Requirements Site selection and survey for Caledon, Kraai, South Africa & Lesotho
  48. First Delphi Workshop, June 2010, North West, South Africa
  49. ORASECOM Prepares for the Joint Basin Survey – 1
  50. Workshop on Stakeholder Participation – Maseru, Lesotho
  51. Visit of the Nile Equatorial Subsidiary Action Plan group
  52. Visit to Lesotho Flow Gauging Stations

Climate Resilient Water Resources Investment Strategy & Plan & Lesotho-Botswana Water Transfer (L-BWT) Project

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Climate Resilient Water Resources Investment Strategy & Plan and Lesotho-Botswana Water Transfer (L-BWT) Project

With the support of the African Development Bank (AfDB), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and other Partners, from January 2017 to June 2020, ORASECOM is developing its climate resilient water resources investment strategy & plan, as well as undertaking a pre-feasibility study for the Lesotho-Botswana water transfer and a feasibility study for the proposed dam site on the Makhaleng River in Lesotho.

In January 2017, an Agreement was signed between ORASECOM and the African Development Bank (AfDB). For more information click here.

With effect from the 1st of August 2018, the WRP Pty Limited and its Associates started providing consulting services to the already funded components of the Project. For more information on the selection of the Consultant, and the awarding of the consultancy contract to WRP and its Associates, click here.

INVESTMENT REQUEST
€3.42 million grant funding for outstanding feasibility studies related to the dam and conveyancing pipeline. For more information on the investment request click here.

Resources

Signing of An Agreement Between ORASECOM and AfDB

The pdf file below titled “PR_ORASECOM_Signing_January 2017” gives you more information on the signing of a Letter of agreement by the Parties on preparation of Climate Resilient Water Resources Investment Strategy and Multipurpose Project for the Basin.

Signing of An Agreement Between ORASECOM and AfDB

Consultancy Package One Contract Award

With effect from the 1st of August 2018, the WRP (Pty) Limited and its Associates were awarded a contract to develop a climate resilient water resources investment strategy & plan for the Orange-Senqu River Basin, as well as undertake a pre-feasibility study for the Lesotho-Botswana Water Transfer and a feasibility study for the proposed dam site on the Makhaleg River in Lesotho.

For more information on the selection of the Consultant, download the pdf file below.

Consultancy Package One Contract Award

Fundraising for the Lesotho-Botswana Water Transfer Project

The L-BWT scheme will supply water to Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa from the Makhaleng Dam – part of the Lesotho Lowlands Water Supply Scheme – through a 700 km water conveyance pipeline from Lesotho, through South Africa, to Botswana.

INVESTMENT REQUEST

<€3.42 million grant funding for outstanding feasibility studies related to the dam and conveyancing pipeline.

Fundraising drive is taking place at the 2018 Stockholm World Water Week, from 26-31 August 2018, with the support of the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF), the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and the Global Water Partnership – Southern Africa (GWP-SA).
For more information on the investment requirement for the Project and invitation to a closed session with Mr Lenka Thamae, the Executive Secretary of ORASECOM, at the 2018 World Water Week, download the files below.

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