Africa

Botswana

• © UNESCO/Jasmina Sopova
• Chobe National Park, Botswana

The country is covered by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Botswana was key in the creation of the Sustainable Integrated Management and Development of the Arid and Semi-Arid Region of Southern Africa programme (SIMDAS), a flagship programme that aims at addressing water interactions, ecosystem protection and management, energy resources and health issues in the 14 countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, while increasing the capacity and involvement of women in such issues. 

The country is trying to preserve the great cultural and environmental value of its landscape by participating in various programmes.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in Botswana within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

- Southern Africa Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (SA FRIEND)

- Towards long term sustainable ecosystem management in the headstreams of arid/semi arid southern Africa (Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre (HOORC), University of Botswana) More

- Sustainable Integrated Management and Development of the Arid and Semi-Arid Region of Southern Africa programme (SIMDAS) 

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Sustainable Integrated Management and Development of the Arid and Semi-Arid Region of Southern Africa programme (SIMDAS) 
 

Earth Sciences

- Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic Events in South-West-Gondwana (IGCP, Project 478)

- Geodynamics of the East African Rift System / Geophysical Characteristics and Evolution of the South-western Branch of the East African Rift System (IGCP, Project 482/489)

- Dryland Change: Past, Present, Future (IGCP, Project 500)

- Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution (IGCP, Project 509)

- Diamonds, xenoliths and kimberlites (IGCP, Project 557)