As part of Birdlife Botswana's commitment to maintaining a network of sites that are critical for birds both nationally and internationally, the Makgadikgadi Pans Important Bird Area (IBA) is monitored annually following BirdLife's global monitoring framework. This framework is based on the State - Pressure - Response model that has been adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and this report is divided into three parts paralleling these components.