The long-awaited Okavango Delta Management Plan (ODMP) has been launched and is available in PDF format and in print form from the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs. The ODMP project was begun some years ago, with seed funding from the Ramsar Convention, and it has been developed under the framework of the Ramsar Management Planning Guidelines by a number of national and local government sectors and other organizations such as the Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre (HOORC) and The World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Financial support has been provided along the way by the governments of Denmark, Germany, and Sweden, and by IUCN and Ramsar. The OMDP is endorsed by the Permanent Okavango River Basin Commission (OKACOM), including Angola and Namibia, the Secretariat of which was also launched in Maun on World Wetlands Day earlier this month with the participation of the Ramsar Secretary General, Mr Anada Tiéga.

The ODMP in PDF (2.8MB):