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government services available to people of Botswana elsewhere, including, most
immediately, access to water.
98.
Indigenous people who have remained or returned to the reserve face harsh
and dangerous conditions due to a lack of access to water, a situation that could be
easily remedied by reactivating the boreholes in the reserve. The Government should
reactivate the boreholes or otherwise secure access to water for inhabitants of the
reserve as a matter of urgent priority.
99.
The Government has taken steps to negotiate with relevant stakeholders to
resolve the situation of the people removed from or still living in the Central Kalahari
Game Reserve. However, further efforts in this regard are required. The Government
should work to ensure the effective, direct participation in the negotiations of all
affected indigenous communities and allow them to be assisted in the negotiations by
legal counsel or to receive other technical support available to them if they so choose.
Additionally, the Government should provide adequate financial and logistical
support to ensure the effective participation of the stakeholder indigenous
communities.
E.
United Nations system in Botswana
100. All United Nations programmes and agencies with projects in Botswana should
incorporate into their project planning and execution full consideration, as applicable,
of the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples and the recommendations in the present report.
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