Joanna Fatch is a water and development practitioner working in water resources management and capacity development. She engages widely in regional policy processes in pursuance of her research interests in the issues of ‘space’ – how it is given and or limited in broad based participation processes at different levels where socio-political aspects of water such as gender, institutions, stakeholder participation and riparian states interactions are at play. Her current research focuses on the boundaries of benefit sharing in the management the Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa sub-basin of the Zambezi watercourse. She is currently the project manager at the NEPAD Southern African Network of Water Centres of Excellence.