This paper outlines research in the area of water and energy supply in Southern African countries: South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
National development plans focus upon energy and water separately, often not integrating the other sector’s resource use. This contributes to programme failures in the long run.
Plenary discussions raised issues regarding the presentations, and whether all four countries had properly covered the type, format and availability of meteorological data. The workshop provided space for project updates and challenges.
This report summarizes discussions and agreements at the workshop, where a work plan for the project was agreed upon, and milestones clearly stated.
Climatic extreme events with varying magnitude, complexity, and economic impacts are a common feature of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). Occurrences of these events in most cases are beyond human control.
The main objective of the ECAW project is to enhance climate change adaptation in agriculture and water resources in the Greater Horn of Africa.
The inception workshop allowed participants and stakeholder groups to become aware of different documents relating to climate change adaptation efforts (National Adaptation Plan of Action, NAPA; Ethiopian Program of Adaptation for Climate Change,