Poverty rife in Okavango

This was revealed by ORI researcher, Moseki Motsholapheko when officiating during the Okavango Wetlands Management Committee (OWMC) at Maduo Lodge last Thursday.The workshop was organised by OWMC and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ngamiland Sustainable Land Management (SLM) project. 

The workshop aimed to create a dialogue about issues of sustainable land management in Ngamiland by multiple stakeholders. Motsholapheko revealed that they undertook a research that looked into households access to capital in Ngamiland, which showed that that 47% of households in Ngamiland are poor and revealed that a large number of people are dependent on social safety nets.