Africa

Mozambique

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• Incomati River, Mozambique

Mozambique hosts a National UNESCO Office in Maputo.

Mozambique is currently involved in a Sustainable Development of Coasts and Small Islands (CSI) project that aims to improve the welfare of regional communities while maintaining and restoring the ecological qualities of the area, as well as several Earth Sciences projects.

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

Freshwater 
- Southern African Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (SA FRIEND)
- 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)
- UNESCO Chair on Man and Environment in Southern Africa, established in 1992 at Eduardo Mondlane University within the framework of the UNITWIN Network for Southern Africa More 

Oceans
- Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System programme (IOTWS)
- International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)
- Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa  (ODINAFRICA)
- UNESCO Chair in Marine Sciences and Oceanography, Eduardo Mondlane University More

Earth Sciences 
- Pan-African Network for a Geoscience Information System (PANGIS)
- Geodynamics of the East African Rift System / Geophysical Characteristics and Evolution of the South-western Branch of the East African Rift System (IGCP, projet 482/489)
- The role of Holocene environmental catastrophes in human history (IGCP, projet 490)

Basic Sciences
- Global Microscience Project (GPME)

Coasts and Small Islands
- Development-conservation strategies for integrated coastal management in Maputaland (Mozambique, South Africa) More