Research, Policy Key In Water Resource Management

Researchers and strategists have been urged to interact often for formulation of relevant water resource management policies.

National director of the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCCALM), Casper Bonyongo said that research-based evidence often plays a very minor role in policy formulation in  Botswana. He said that this is because there is limited interaction between researchers and policy makers. “The lack of interaction means policy makers are often not informed about ongoing research while researchers always lack knowledge of the most pressing policy questions that they would need to make their research more relevant,” he said.

“However, recently there has been an increased interest in policy research.”

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