Zambezi River System Action Plan (ZACPLAN)[1] is a multinational plan under the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to incorporate effective use, and management of the Zambezi River system.
[2] It encompasses eight countries: Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The Zambezi river basin is used by all these Southern African countries; this plan attempts to manage resources collectively amongst, and between SADCC Nations to reasonably meet national, and international goals for water resources.
[2] Due to the immense river basin formed by the Zambezi River together with its tributaries, the Zambezi River System Plan is a culmination of a UN commission, to focus on the projection that the demand for the basins water resources would increase.
This competition creates negative utilization, and inefficient use of resources for all these countries in a profitable manner.