EU pumps P77m into KAZA :: Mmegi Online

The European Union has provided a five-million-euro grant (P77.3 million) to the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), to help reduce biodiversity loss and improve the quality of life for local communities.

KAZA is the world’s largest terrestrial TFCA covering parts of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and stretching across 520,000 square miles (approx. 1,346,800 square kilometres) that boasts both the Okavango Delta and the Victoria Falls, forests, wetlands, some of Africa’s greatest river systems and a natural beauty that is amongst the world’s wonders.

The grant, unveiled yesterday at the First Africa Biodiversity Summit, is a four-year programme known as the Green Growth for KAZA and runs under the EU’s NaturAfrica initiative to support TFCAs in the SADC region. The support will deliver measurable conservation impact at scale, create livelihood opportunities through Bankable Nature Solutions and innovative finance, and improve governance through strengthening the KAZA Secretariat, which is based in Kasane.

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