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Content: PROJECT BRIEF
ACTIVITIES
MEET INGS
CONTACT
BURUNDI
D.R. CONGO
ETHIOPIA
KENYA
RWANDA
SUDAN
TANZANIA
UGANDA |
Project Summary:The Project "Operational Water Resources Management and Information System in the Nile Basin Countries" (later renamed "Nile Basin Water Resources Project"), implemented by FAO with funding from Italy, aims at strengthening regional co-ordination and at increasing the capacity by Nile Basin countries to negotiate joint management, equitable sharing and utilisation of water resources and environmental protection of the Nile basin in the interest of supporting regional cooperation under a wider Nile Basin Programme. The participating countries are Burundi, D.R. Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.The project is implemented at national level through National Coordinators and Focal Point Institutions appointed by the participating Governments. Activities are co-ordinated through the Project Headquarters, based in Entebbe, Uganda by the Chief Technical Adviser, two GIS experts and support staff and through frequent visits to the participating countries. FAO provides technical and administrative backstopping. Main Activities:Several activities were defined to address the said long term objective, which can be grouped as follows:
Regional MeetingsThe main objective of the project is capacity building in order to enhance international co-operation between countries within the Nile river basin. For this purpose the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has been given the mandate, with a group of co-operating partners, including the World Bank, UNDP and CIDA-Canada, to organize capacity building meetings and workshops focused on river basin management.1. The first regional workshop was held in Pretoria and Cape Town,
South Africa 14-19 July 1998. The workshop was a capacity building exercise
focused on Transboundary Water Policy. A presentation of the workshop and
the main outcomes can be found in following report: Cape
Town Transboundary Water Policy Workshop;
3. From 29 June to 3 July a second regional workshop was held in Uganda. The workshop was entitled "Planning for Growth" were delegates discussed the planning process for infrastructure development of international water resources through the use of simulation exercises based on a fictitious international river basin containing similarities to the Nile basin. A full presentation of the simulation is included in the Cape Town workshop report together with maps. Two other regional workshops are scheduled to: a) September, 1998, Khartoum, Sudan. The workshop will address the issue of ensuring the riparian states’ control of their development processes whilst engaging with international financing, consulting and contracting agencies; b) December, 1998, Rome, Italy. The December workshop will cover the question of notification of the intention to develop international water resources and the development of negotiation skills. The activities are carried out in collaboration with technical assistance from Water Policy Africa Ltd, acting as a sub-contractor to the project.
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