This individual is required for the Collaboration Project ‘Wetlands Monitoring and Assessment Platform for Transboundary River Basins in Southern Africa (WeMAST) which was granted by the African Union through the Global Monitoring and Environmental Security Programme (GMES). The WeMAST project aims to support wetland assessment and monitoring methods applicable to Southern Africa by developing an integrated platform. This platform can provide wetland information service to SADC wetland authorities for assessment, monitoring by utilizing and integrating existing Earth Observation capabilities a...

In 2016, accredited entities of the Adaptation Fund established a Community of Practice aimed at providing an avenue for knowledge exchange, learning and experience sharing amongst National Implementing Entities to support direct access to climate finance. The Community of Practice has grown to include Direct Access Entities (DAEs) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

As the only accredited entity to the Adaptation Fund, the DRFN participated in a 3 day workshop in Durban, South Africa. 

Participants to this workshop also had the opportunity to visit the adaptation project being undertaken by  Sou...

ProSus is a platform for exploring ideas and solutions for a more sustainable future. It showcases the voices of researchers, thinkers and storytellers, and perspectives that build bridges between science and society, between local and global realities.

Latin for “forward”, ProSus is more than a synthesis of knowledge: it aims at informing, inspiring solutions and igniting conversations on how to address critical sustainability challenges. An editorially independent, non-profit magazine, ProSus is published twice a year by START International.

This issue features work from the  ASSAR project.

It all started with the need for water in an area where water is so difficult to find.

Donkerbos is one of the few predominately San villages with about 150 to 160 people permanently resettled there. Donkerbos people can only be described as kind, very helpful and watchful. When you arrive there, you will find them all smiles and eager to be of assistance in anyway.

Currently there are only 2 boreholes on the farm which provide water to the 150+ inhabitants, their animals and the local school of about 300 learners. As it is situated in an area where water is constantly a problem due to prevale...