The IUCN Building River Governance and Dialogue (BRIDGE) programme has been working in BUPUSA since 2014. Its main partners are government institutions and WaterNet, a regional network of university and training institutes specialising in water.
The objectives of the BRIDGE programme in BUPUSA are:
- Supporting the implementation of the region’s water cooperation frameworks, namely the Water Policy and Protocol on Shared Watercourses by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), aimed at improving water cooperation, peace and investment in the region;
- Enhancing transboundary water cooperation into actions on the ground through capacity-building and knowledge sharing;
- Promoting tools for effective transboundary water governance and ecosystem valuation.