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Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program Coordination Unit, NELSAP-CU NELSAP PROGRAM BRIEF ONGOING CONSTRUCTION AT THE REGIONAL RUSUMO FALLS HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT (RRFHP) SITE TORORO SUB-STATION IN UGANDA CONSTRUCTED THROUGH THE INTERCONNECTION OF THE ELECTRIC GRIDS OF ONE OF THE FOUR MODERN EQUIPPED SURVEILLANCE BOATS LEAF II PROJECT PROVIDED TO THE D.R CONGO AND UGANDA THE NILE EQUATORIAL LAKES (NEL) COUNTRIES PROJECT OF NELSAP FOR JOINT SURVEILLANCE OF TRANSBOUNDARY LAKES EDWARD AND ALBERT CONTRIBUTING TO AFRICA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION AGENDA IN POWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE, AND WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT Our Mission: To contribute to the eradication of poverty, economic growth, and reversal of environmental degradation in the Nile Equatorial Lakes Region OCTOBER 2019 I. BACKGROUND / CONTEXT 1.1 NELSAP Coordination Unit Niche and Value Addition The Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program (NELSAP), headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda is one of two investment programs under the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI); the other program being the Eastern Nile Subsidiary Action Program (ENSAP), headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, also known as Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO). NELSAP Coordination Unit was established in December 1999 by the Council of Ministers for Water Affairs with a mission to “contribute to the eradication of poverty, promote economic growth, and reverse environmental degradation in the Nile Equatorial Lakes (NEL) region, within the overall NBI’s shared Vision of sustainable socioeconomic development and the equitable use of and benefit from Nile Basin water resources”. NELSAP Coordination Unit is governed and reports to the Council of Water Ministers from 10 Nile Basin membership states namely: Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan & Sudan, through a technical advisory committee. NELSAP Coordination Unit (CU) within its mandate facilitates jointly agreed transformative in- country projects with regional impact/significance and transboundary cooperative investment projects related to the common use of the Nile Basin water resources. It also builds regional capacity for countries and provides a platform for implementation coordination of transboundary investment projects. NELSAP-CU renders support to national initiatives and focuses on two investment areas of: (i) power development and trade; and (ii) natural resources management and development. Since Inception, NELSAP-CU has gained regional experience, strengthened its capacity and emerged as a reliable regional institution for facilitating key in-country and regional investment projects in the Nile Equatorial Lakes Region and beyond. Its key institutional strength lies in project pre- investment feasibility studies, regional projects coordination support, regional strategic analysis & Integrated planning, environmental & social safeguards integration, social economic development, stakeholders’ engagement, development communication & program visibility, financial and procurement management as well as results based monitoring and evaluation. NELSAP Coordination Unit continues to play a catalytic role in the Africa Regional Project Development and Integration Agenda, with support of Cooperating Development Partners and Countries, working strategically and collaborating with other regional institutions, in facilitating asset creation, preparation of in-country project regional significance and cross-border regional projects, resource mobilization, and providing project implementation coordination and technical oversight on behalf of the member countries. The NELSAP Strategic Plan 2016-2021 outlines the key strategic directions that the organization will pursue in achieving its mission and mandate. In this plan, there are earmarked projects for the short- term (2016-2021), Medium Term (2021-2026) and long-term (2026-2031). 1.2 Cooperating and Strategic Partnerships NELSAP is supported and funded bilaterally and multilaterally by different development partners including, but not limited to the African Development Bank (AfDB), African Water Facility (AWF), World Bank (through the Nile Basin Trust Fund–NBTF and Cooperation in International Waters in Africa-CIWA Trust Fund ), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Governments of Norway (NORAD), Sweden International Development Agency (Sida), and the Government of The Netherlands, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), GIZ (Germany), and KfW (Germany). This is in addition to member states’ contributions. 2 With these strategic partnerships, NELSAP-CU mobilized cumulative finance to-date for pre- investment programs of US$92 Million and an additional US$980 Million for investment projects. To this end, NELSAP has prepared number of pipeline projects which were approved for further development by Nile Equatorial Lakes Council of Ministers (NELCOM) in October 2015 and from a long list of 71 pipeline projects, a portfolio of 21 have been selected as priority projects for preparation at estimated cost of US$72 Million dollars and a further 16 prepared investment bankable projects for implementation at a cost of US$1,925 Million dollars during the short and medium term period 2018-2021. The NELSAP-CU has created synergies through Memorandums of Understanding with regional initiatives like the East African Community (EAC)/Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC), the power programs like the Eastern African Power Pool (EAPP); Communauté Économique pour les Pays des Grands Lacs (CEPGL) and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). NELSAP Coordination Unit pursues strategic partnerships to advance Africa’s transformation and development agenda and intends to transform itself into a Project Advisory/ Acceleration Delivery Unit. II. NELSAP SUB-PROGRAMS AND PROJECT PORTFOLIO As mandated by its Member States, NELSAP facilitates identification, preparation, implementation supervision, and resource mobilization for investment projects in two main sub-programs namely: (i) The Water Resources Management and Development Sub-program; and (ii) The Power Development and Trade Sub-program. A family drawing water from a domestic water point supplied by Bisarwi Dam a 50,000m3 capacity storage earth dam in Bisarwi village, Tarime District that was done by NELSAP 3 COMPLETED WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS 1. Lakes Edward and Albert Fisheries Project (LEAF I) The Lakes Edward and Albert Fisheries Project Phase I (LEAF I) was among the NBI projects that the AfDB committed to support in the International Consortium on the Cooperation on the Nile (ICCONI)1 in 2001. The project was implemented over a 3 years period (2005-2008) with a funding of USD 2.3 million. The project was identified under the NELSAP and it was shared between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Uganda. The projects achieved the following main outputs: i) Development of a Lake Management Plan; ii) Fisheries Co-Management Plan; and iii) Integrated Capacity Building and Stakeholders’ participation. Governments of the DR Congo and Uganda Signing Bilateral Lake Edward and Albert Agreement for joint management of the two lakes. This Agreement was facilitated by LEAF II project of NELSAP 2. Regional Agricultural Trade and Productivity Project (RATP) The project was financed by the World Bank up to a tune of USD7.0 Million and implemented over a four (4) years period (2009 -2012). It was a priority project to enhance food security and promote pro-poor growth in the Nile Basin. The project rationale was that investments in reliable access to water, strengthened market linkages and active promotion of private sector are options that can have a dramatic impact on agriculture growth, food security and poverty reduction. The project was implemented in collaboration with regional economic communities like COMESA and EAC. The Project delivered the following studies: (i) developed the Nile Basin Agricultural Model, (ii) assessed the irrigation potential in seven (7) Nile Equatorial Lakes Countries of (Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania), (iii) promoted the best practices on water harvesting and irrigation practices, (iv) cross border agricultural trade studies focusing on Trans-boundary Grain/ Pulses Trade, Livestock Trade in the Nile Basin Region”, (v) virtual water/water footprint analysis, documentation and awareness creation as well as (vi) definition of the NBI agricultural role, based on study of River Basin Organization (RBO) lessons, and national and regional consultations. 1 ICCONI is a forum for dialogue among international donor community and non-governmental organizations on the options and opportunities for management and development of the Nile Basin. 4 3. Nile Equatorial Lakes Water Resources Development Project The project funded with grant from World Bank at a cost USD 4.895 million and was implemented over a thirty four (34) months period (2010-2012). The project supported the scaling of the NELSAP strategy with a specific development objective to identify and advance the preparation of a strategic portfolio of ‘bankable’ Water Resources projects that demonstrate benefits of cooperation to each Nile Equatorial lakes countries, within a broader coordinated water-related investment strategy for the region. The project identified investment projects worth USD 2,752 Billion following the delivery of the following key studies: (1) project preparatory studies to enable the formulation of cooperative investment