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The project is a joint undertaking between Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania. Rwanda Burundi, between is a joint undertaking project dam. The Hydroelectric Falls Rusumo the 80 MW Regional of Construction Introduction Organisational Structure The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) is NILE-COM an intergovernmental partnership EN-COM NEL-COM of ten Nile Basin countries, NILE-TAC namely Burundi, DR Congo, Regional Expert Working Groups Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Hydromet Wetlands Strategic ENSAPT NEL-TAC Analysis South Sudan, The Sudan, NILE-SEC State of the Environmental River Basin Groundwater Tanzania and Uganda. It was Flows Report established on February 22, 1999, ENTRO NELSAP-CU Joint Project Implementation Units and Committees by Ministers in charge of Water Rusumo LEAF Nyimur Interconnection Affairs in the Nile Basin countries: “To achieve sustainable socio- regional national economic development through National Focal Points the equitable utilisation of, and Transboundary Water Affairs Units National Intersectoral Coordination benefit from, the common Nile (Ministries and Institutions related to water) Basin water resources”. Water NBI provides Member States with NELSAP Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme ENSAPT Eastern Nile Subsidiary Action Programme Team the only basin-wide and impartial ENSAP Eastern Nile Subsidiary Action Programme NELTAC Nile Equatorial Lakes Technical Advisory Committee Nile-COM NELSAPNile CouncilNile of Equatorial Ministers Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme Nile-SECENSAPT NBIEastern Secretariat Nile Subsidiary Action Programme Team platform to discuss with trust EN – COM ENSAPEastern NileEastern Council Nile Subsidiaryof Ministers Action Programme ENTRONELTAC EasternNile Equatorial Nile Technical Lakes Technical Regional Advisory Office Committee Nile-COM Nile Council of Ministers Nile-SEC NBI Secretariat and confidence how to jointly NEL- COM Nile Equatorial Lakes Council of Ministers Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program EN – COM Eastern Nile Council of Ministers NELSAP-CUENTRO Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office take care of and utilise the shared Nile-TAC Nile Technical Advisory Committee Coordination Unit Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program NEL- COM Nile Equatorial Lakes Council of Ministers NELSAP-CU water resources for win-win socio- Coordination Unit Nile-TAC Nile Technical Advisory Committee economic benefits and to promote Institutional set up regional peace and security. The setup of NBI is informed by the principle of subsidiarity to enable leveraging distinctive development potentials and addressing constraints and challenges unique to geographic regions. The Objectives of NBI Secretariat (Nile-SEC) based in Entebbe, Uganda is responsible for the overall corporate direction. Two Subsidiary Action Programmes (SAPs) offices, namely the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office • To develop the Nile Basin water (ENTRO) based in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia for the Eastern Nile Subsidiary Action Programme (ENSAP) resources in a sustainable and the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme Coordination Unit (NELSAP-CU) based and equitable way to ensure in Kigali - Rwanda, for the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme (NELSAP) focus on prosperity, security and peace preparation of joint investment (infrastructure) projects. for all its peoples Core functions • To ensure efficient water Facilitating Basin Cooperation - Providing the regional platform for multi stakeholder dialogue, management and the optimal information sharing, joint planning and management of shared water and related natural resources in use of the Nile resources the Nile Basin • To ensure cooperation and joint Water Resource Management - Strengthening Member States’ institutional and technical action between the riparian capacities as well as developing and operating a shared knowledgebase to support decision making at countries, seeking win-win basin-wide level and action at lower levels. gains Water Resource Development - Assisting Member States to identify and prepare regionally • To target poverty eradication and significant investment projects and mobilising financial and technical resources for their promote economic integration implementation. Goals & Actions for 2017 - 2027 GOAL 1: WATER SECURITY GOAL 2: ENERGY SECURITY GOAL 3: FOOD SECURITY Meeting rising water demand Unlocking and optimising hydropower Increasing agricultural productivity potential Our actions: Increase storage capacity in Our actions: Identify and prepare bankable Our actions: Undertake analytical work to the basin; support the improvement of water investment projects in power infrastructure; introduce and promote an approach that use efficiency in major water-use sectors; in special cases such as the 80 MW Regional examines and proposes options for addressing strengthen river basin monitoring and analysis Rusumo Falls Hydro-electric Project, extend the water-food nexus in the Nile Basin; identify of data from monitoring networks; promote implementation support to the countries; and prepare investment
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