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• SANWATCE secretariat and ACEWATER III coordinator attends the SADC WRTC (Water Resources Technical Committee) meeting, 6-8 May 202610 July 2026
  After the AUDA-NEPAD SANWATE secretariat, hosted at Stellenbosch University reviewed the SADC water research agenda in 2025, the final document was presented to the SADC ministers responsible for water at the last WRTC… Read more: SANWATCE secretariat and ACEWATER III coordinator attends the SADC WRTC (Water Resources Technical Committee) meeting, 6-8 May 2026
• SADC Water Research Agenda II is ready for adoption by SADC Ministers6 May 2026
  During the week of 4 to 6 May 2026, the AUDA-NEPAD SANWATCE Secrariat presented the final version of the revised SADC Water Research Agenda to the Regional Stakeholder Workshop to review and validate… Read more: SADC Water Research Agenda II is ready for adoption by SADC Ministers
• AUDA-NEPAD SANWATCE partners engages at annual WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA symposium in Lusaka, 28-31 October 202519 November 2025
  All 11 partners attended and actively engaged at this annual symposium. Several emerging scholars and researchers working on the ACEWATER III projects presented their respective research. The Unit for Environmental Ethics at Stellenbosch… Read more: AUDA-NEPAD SANWATCE partners engages at annual WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA symposium in Lusaka, 28-31 October 2025
• Secretariat invited to the SADC Resource Mobilisation and Transboundary Water Investment Workshop Lusaka, Zambia 24-25 July 202529 July 2025
  The secretariat for AUDA-NEPAD SANWATCE was invited by the SADC Water Division and GWP-SA (Global Water Partners – Southern Africa) to represent the AUDA-NEPAD Water CoEs and to present on the progress of… Read more: Secretariat invited to the SADC Resource Mobilisation and Transboundary Water Investment Workshop Lusaka, Zambia 24-25 July 2025

About the SADC Water Research Agenda

The main objective of SADC Water Research Agenda was to establih a Research Agenda to map the way forward regarding the development of a SADC water research priorities. The specific objectives include: determining the degree to which the water research agenda can contribute to SADC‘s overall development agenda; identifying the main research themes that will constitute the research agenda; identifying and describing the research topics for each of the main research themes; and determining the best implementation strategy for the research agenda.

The SADC Water Research Agenda was adopted by SADC ministers for Water in 2015.

NOTE: The SADC Water Research Agenda is currently being reviewed and should be available by mid-2026