Inkomati Flows

22nd Edition

A weekly newsletter from the office of the CEO

World Bank and Zambian Government come to learn from Inkomati CMA

One of the Brettonwood institutions established to respond to national economic developmental needs of governments will be down in Nelspruit with the Zambian government officials to come learn from the ICMA on IWRM.

This event will be hosted by the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs in the Mpumalanga Provincial Government and the Inkomati CMA. The delegation of the ICMA will be composed of the Acting Chairperson, Mr N Govender, Mr C du Preez, Mr S Ndlovu, Mr M Selepe, Mr J Mabunda and Mr B Jackson.

In a bid to address water shortages, inequality, development, pollution and many other water challenges mainly in developing countries, the World Bank engages in a number of partnerships aimed at developing innovative approaches to sustainable water resources management. This includes learning and exposing developing countries to best practices.

In Southern Africa Development Community Region (SADC), Zambia is among the countries supported by the World Bank on the IWRM and agriculture development. This mission seeks to learn from us on how we manage the resource and market our products.

The Inkomati CMA is perceived as one of those institutions which can add value in the quest to find solutions to the above challenges. As we have emphatically stated in the previous issues of this newsletter, the fact that we are the first CMA in the country heading the transformation in the water resource management puts us at the great advantage of being the point of reference. We have to remain at this position going forward and built on the existing competitive and comparative advantages.

Rest assured when this delegation leaves our offices, it would have been exposed to:

• A description of the ICMA and its functions;
• Water reform in the IWMA;
• Overview of key challenges facing the ICMA;
• Collaborative working relationships between commercial farmers emerging farmers around production and market;
• and Agriculture in the context of rural development. 

After this interaction, the ICMA will have fulfilled one of the mandates that the Minister has given to all DWAF entities, which is, assisting in the development of Africa. Obviously, assisting in the development of Africa is not an event. We have to build further areas of learning and cooperation so that we can realise the goals of developing a prosperous Africa.