A core requirement of the Sustainable Development Goals is to enhance global partnerships amongst stakeholders, to mobilize and share knowledge, expertise and technology for sustainable development. This transboundary knowledge creation and capacity development assessment is necessary in integrating water resource management and governance at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation, to protect and restore water-related systems. There are several competing pressures over resources in and around the Cuando. These include land and water competition between wildlife reserves and pastoral economies, changing socio-economic circumstances for the local residents, and climate change and variability, which is expected to exacerbate the occurence of floods and droughts. To address these challenges, this report provides the information and context for preparing relevant policy actions at the local, national and transboundary levels. Integrated water resources management in transboundary basins calls for objective information. This has been gathered from relevant reports, data and descriptions of the natural, physical and social resources of the basin. Specifically, the maps have accumulated geographic information from many sources and present the current state of knowledge of the resources. The State of the Basin Report (SBR) aims to provide social, political, economic and environmental information, with recommendations for policy action on transboundary natural resource management.