Representatives from five countries will resume discussions in Windhoek next month on a transfrontier tourism plan in the eastern Caprivi area. The tip of the Caprivi Strip joins Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia a few kilometres along a common border, while Angola borders the western Caprivi. Formerly known as Okavango-Upper-Zambezi-International Tourism (OUZIT) initiative, the conservation and tourism project was renamed Okavango Zambezi Project recently.

According to the ministry of environment and tourism, the meeting will take place on 16 and 17 February and is a consultative multi-stakeholder conference.

A German institution, InWEnt will co-organise the meeting.

During a meeting of the government leaders of the respective countries in Livingstone, Zambia last year where the proposals was discussed at highest level, Zimbabwe was appointed as the secretariat for this conservation and tourism project. Namibia has already signed an agreement for another transfrontier park, the Richtersveld Park with South Africa. A similar agreement was reached with Angola to combine the Namibe Nature Park in southwestern Angola, the Kunene River mouth and parts of the Kaokoland in Namibia into a transfrontier tourism area.