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The overall objective of the SAB project is to reduce poverty among wetland-dependent communities in central Southern Africa, by influencing national and international policies to ensure that the interconnections between the world’s poor and wetlands are recognized, and sustainable wetland management, through a functional landscape and multiple use approach, is supported. The project seeks to achieve this overall objective through two specific, but related, purposes:
Overall, the SAB project seeks to strike a balance between different ecosystem services for livelihoods and environmental functioning (regulating). It has developed guidance towards this through the iimplementation of wetland management field activities at sites in Zambia and Malawi, and disseminated the resulting guidance widely in central Southern Africa to help achieve the sustainable and multiple use of seasonal wetlands.
The focus of the fieldwork has been on the development of functional landscapes in these wetlands and their catchments and the development of local institutional arrangements for their management. Lessons from these areas are contributing to on-going policy dialogue on the management of seasonal wetlands in both countries through existing government linkages, while dissemination of technical advice and good practice guidance is underway through existing and expanded Learning Networks and links with extension and training agencies. Wider implications of this work within the region and globally are being shared with the COMESA, SADC, the Ramsar Convention Secretariat and the Global Mechanism of the Convention to Combat Desertification.
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