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

ICPDR - International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) and ORASECOM have agreed to establish a long-term collaboration and co-operation between the two Commissions. The two Commissions showed an interest to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding cooperation on Technical assistance, capacity building, and information sharing on transboundary river basin management and other related issues at a meeting that was held in Vienna, Austria on the 13th of July 2008.

Areas of Co-operation

The areas of co-operation includes exchange of knowledge and experience on the following:

  • Institutional and organisational development of RBOs including procedures and operations, and participation of key stakeholders such as NGOs and the business community in both operational activities and official meetings;
  • Implementation of legal instruments that regulate the operations of a River Basin Organisation;
  • Development of common policy framework in trans-boundary basin system;
  • Balancing priorities among different stakeholders and interest groups as well as improving stakeholder participation in basin management; and
  • Technical assistance in the development of basin wide management plans for – improving stakeholder participation in basin management; infrastructural development; water allocation; pollution control, monitoring and prevention/mitigation; and conflict management.

The following activities have thus far been undertaken to effect the cooperation between the two Commissions:-

  • The ORASECOM Secretariat visited the ICPDR from the 30th of November to the 12th of December 2009. The purpose of the visit was to participate in the preparations and conducting of the 12th ordinary meeting of the ICPDR. The ORASECOM Secretariat also had an opportunity to learn about the different initiatives of the ICPDR with the possibility of adapdation of some of these in the Orange-Senqu River Basin. For more information on this visit click here for our 1st newsletter;
  • From the 1st to the 13th of August 2010, The Information, Communications and Technology Expert of the ICPDR undertook an information communications needs assessment for ORASECOM and established a pilot Orange-Senqu Information sharing and management System (OSIS);
  • On the 24th of May and 21st of August 2010, the Water Quality Expert of the ICPDR participated in the planning meetings for the 1st Orange-Senqu Joint Basin Water Resources Quality Survey (JBS1) planned for October and November 2010.
  • ICPDR and ORASECOM also take advantage of standing international conferences and events such as the Australian International River Symposium, to jointly publicise the activities and cooperation initiatives that exist between the two Commissions, and also learn from the other River Basin Organisations. For instance, three sessions have been identified by the two Commissions during the upcoming 13th International River Symposium to be held in Perth, Australia from the 11th to the 14th of October 2010, which will provide an excellent opportunity for sharing relevant experiences on work being conducted by ORASECOM and ICPDR and other key river basins across the World. Two of these sessions which are part of the main program of the Symposium are as follows:- (i) Session A4D entitled “International Riverfoundation Twinning Session”; and (ii) Session C2B entitled “Sharing Experiences in Managing Transboundary Waters”. The third session which will be an independent side event will feature the ICPDR, the ORASECOM and the Murray Darling River Basin Organisations on conducting field surveys in large rivers. For more information on the 13th International River Symposium click or visit the following website address:- www.riversymposium.com

More initiatives in taking the cooperation between the two Commissions are expected.

For more information on ICPDR and its core activities, please click or visit their website at the following address:- www.icpdr.org.