Joanna Fatch is a political scientist with research interest and experience in water and development – water resources governance, water supply and sanitation and capacity building. She is an Africa region representative to the End Water Poverty Steering Committee and works with the Global Water Partnership – Southern Africa and WaterAid in realising effective youth involvement in the water sector in southern Africa. Joanna is a PhD research fellow at the University of the Western Cape, Institute for Water Studies where her research focuses of boundaries of benefit sharing specifically looking at interstate politics in the Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa sub-basin of the Zambezi Basin. She hails from Nsanje, Malawi