Who We Are

The SADC-GMI is established as a section 21 not-for-profit company registered under the South African Companies Act No. 71 of 2008, as amended. The company is run by a Board of Directors composed of representatives from the SADC Member States, University of the Free State, an Executive Director and SADC Secretariat’s Water Division as the Chair.

We are hosted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa on behalf of, and under the strategic guidance of the SADC Secretariat, Directorate of Infrastructure’s Water Division, in Gaborone, Botswana. As a subsidiary structure of the SADC Secretariat, SADC-GMI draws its regional mandate from the fifth phase Regional Strategic Action Plan for Integrated Water Resources Management (RSAP V: 2021-2025).

We are cognisant of the fact that we cannot “do it alone” to achieve the huge mandate of promoting sustainable groundwater management in the SADC region.

The SADC-GMI acknowledges the role that other partners are playing and, in an effort to improve efficiencies, we are continuously seeking partnership with stakeholders operating in the groundwater domain.