Overview The first case of Covid19 in South Africa was confirmed early March 2020 and on the 26th March 2020 the country was on lockdown. The lockdown came with restrictions on certain personal liberties in particular movement of people and gatherings. This had significant implications on how the Tsitsa Project continues to do its work to meet its objectives and goals.

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Sustainable water resource development remains elusive because development has largely externalized costs to the environment and vulnerable people. Novel research theory, methodologies and practice are needed to meet, for example, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In response, the RESBEN project team has developed the innovative Adaptive Systemic Approach (ASA). The ASA provides a coherent framework drawing on core concepts, with associated methods: complex social-ecological systems, transdisciplinarity, epistemic justice, and transformative social learning. The project uses the ASA to shift water development outcomes towards achieving the SDGs, focussing on the water development priorities of water supply and pollution, by involving multiple stakeholders in an iterative, learning-oriented process of collaborative water governance. The project is working on a range of research objectives in case studies across seven African countries. RESBEN is a collaborative project, led by the Institute for Water Research at Rhodes University - the hub of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Water Centre of Excellence (CoE). The project includes UK partners, the University

SANBI is calling for applications for a bursary for Masters Studies to better understand and support the practice of facilitating social learning and stakeholder engagement within the project context. Only research projects in line with the Living Catchments project will be considered.