Current Context and Evolution towards

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Nile Basin Initiative

• Current Context and Evolution towards
• Institutional Strengthening

International Workshop on Institutional Capacity
Development in Transboundary Basins, 10-12
November 2008, Bonn, Germany
By Hamere Wondimu Nile Basin Initiative
Secretariat, Entebbe Uganda
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Presentation Outline

• The Nile Basin Challenges and Opportunities
• Evolution of Cooperation on the Nile
• The Nile Basin Initiative
• Elements of Effectiveness
• NBI Capacity Development Approach Strategy
• NBI Evolution towards institutional Development
  and Harmonization (challenges, and responses to
  the challenges)

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The Nile Basin
The Nile River Basin The countries sharing the
Nile

• Nile Shared by 10 countries Nile - 6,700 km
  length Basin 3million Km2 and a home of over
  160 million people
• Challenges
• Extreme poverty low GDP per capita
• History of tension instability
• Rapid population growth
• Environmental degradation
• Rainfall variability
• Inadequate infrastructure to store water and
  regulate
• Water Related Shocks - Recurrent droughts,
  floods, ..
• Opportunities
• Great potential to foster regional social and
  economic Win-Win dev.
• Cooperative WRM
• Greater economic, political and regional
  integration with benefits beyond those derived
  from the river

Egypt
Eritrea
Sudan
Ethiopia
Uganda
Kenya
D.R. Congo
Rwanda
Burundi
Tanzania
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Evolution of Cooperation on the Nile

• HYDROMET SURVEY Project to foster joint
  collection of hydrometeorlogical data 1967-1992
  (8 countries)

• Technical Cooperation Committee for the Promotion
  of the Development and Environmental Protection
  of the Nile (TECCONILE) 1993-1998 (6 countries)

• Nile Basin action plan prepared in 1995
• The first series of 10 Nile 2002 conferences
  launched in 1993 informal mechanism for
  dialogue and exchange of views

• Established a forum for a process of legal
  institutional dialogue in 1997 that enables
  riparian countries to move towards a long-term
  Legal Cooperative Framework (9 countries)

• Nile Basin Initiative established in Feb, 1999
  (9 countries)

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The NBI Shared Vision

• To achieve sustainable
• socio-economic development
• through equitable utilization of,
• and benefit from,
• the common Nile Basin water resources.

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Nile Basin Strategic Action Program

• SVP - Creates an enabling environment for
  cooperative investments within a basin-wide
  framework

• SAP - Promotes the Shared Vision through
  sub-regional investment projects

• Parallel intensive Dialogue and negotiations on
  the Cooperative Framework to endow NBI with a
  permanent organization and legal foundation

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National NBI Offices
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SVP Project Portfolio (130million basin wide
projects)
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Built a Nile basin community of interest
A technical foundation for basin management
development
Established the NBI as a trusted institution
Promoted integrated approach to WRM
provided coordination across sectors
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Subsidiary Action Programs(ENSAP NELSAP)

• Delivering an initial set of agreed investment
  projects (estimated US700 million)

• Planned at the lowest appropriate level - within
  the basin-wide framework
• Focusing on power development trade,
  agriculture and irrigation, and water and natural
  resources management and development (either
  through ENSAP or NELSAP)
• Aimed at poverty reduction, economic development
  reversal of environmental degradation
• Seeking win-win opportunities between riparian
  countries
• Both SAPs have shown remarkable success in the
  preparation and implementation of both fast track
  and big investment projects identified through a
  highly participatory and consultative process

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NBI Development Partners Partnership
Development Partners

• 1st ICCON meeting held in Jun 2001 -
• Grant funding is mainly channeled through the
  Nile Basin Trust Fund (NBTF) administered by the
  World Bank
• Other financing sources countries contribution
  (in kind and in cash) direct financing from some
  partners

NBTF partners are Canada (CIDA), Denmark, EC,
Finland, France The Netherlands, Norway (NORAD),
Sweden (SIDA), UK (DFID) and World Bank (DGF)
Other partners supporting NBI - Germany, UNDP,
ADB
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Elements of Effectiveness (Implementation
mechanisms and Institutional arrangement)

• Multi-track approach- created incentives for the
  process and demonstrated benefits

• Shared vision Program that started with divergent
  views but facilitated ownership and the
  convergence of views
• Keeping the principle of Subsidiary SAPs
• Cooperative Framework negotiations

• Transitional institutional structure and
  implementation arrangement that facilitates
  decentralization, broad involvement, ownership
  commitment

• Broad inter-country and multi-stakeholder
  participation and dialogue incubated strong
  political support and cooperative actions

• Focus on the benefits that could be directly
  achieved from cooperation (trade, power, food,
  environmental manag. etc.)

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Elements of Effectiveness (Implementation
mechanisms and Institutional arrangement)

• Promoting public participation and awareness
  collaboration with Nile Basin Discourse promoted
  involvement of the civil societies, NGOs

• Growing partnership with donors through the NBTFC
  forums (recognition by donors that NBI needs
  resources and time to successful)

• Focus on the benefits that could be directly
  achieved from cooperation (trade, power, food,
  environmental manag. etc.)

• NBI adopted Results Based System for planning,
  monitoring and reporting

• Preference for hiring NB nationals and locating
  the PMUs in different countries of NBI

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NBI Capacity Development Approach Strategy

1. Assessments on needs for capacity development
   conducted by each SVP project at different levels
   with different scope and focus

2. Institutional and human resources capacity
building through on-the-job and targeted training
as well as study tours and exchange visits by all
SVP projects

• Capacity building on environmental management,
  power trade, water policy, KM, efficient use of
  water for agri production, WQM, negotiations,
  communications, etc.

3. One SVP project focusing on Applied training

• Short and long term training opportunities
  develop. short courses MSc curricula and
  adoption by institutions
• Exchange visits and study tours coordinated and
  collaborative applied research and studies
• Establishing partnership and collaboration with
  other training and research institutions
• Nile Basin University Leaders Forum and Nile-Net
  

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NBI Capacity Development Approach Strategy
4. SVP Coordination Project - strengthening the
capacity of the NBI institutions to execute and
coordinate cooperative basin-wide projects and
coordinating the CB efforts
5. Development of short and long-term NB Capacity
Development Strategy is on process

• NB CDS will build upon the lessons learnt from
  the NBI approach so far
• Focus on the long term and future RBO
  institutional and functional needs
• Aim at complementarity - focus on strengthening
  collaboration with other training institutions
  within and outside the basin
• Inclusion of research and technology development

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NBI Evolution towards institutional Harmonization
Challenges and Issues

• From SVP to IWRM Critical functions need to be
  captured to support the long-term River Basin
  Management

• From identification and preparation to investment
  moving to big joint investments which requires
  countries commitment and financing mechanisms

• From transition to permanence conclusion of
  the Cooperative Framework agreement an
  establishing of a RBC

• From NBTF to NBI resource mobilization
  Developing a resource mobilizaton strategy,
  building skills and systems for funds management

• Collaborate with existing and immerging regional
  institutions - capture synergies and avoid
  duplication

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NBI Evolution towards institutional Development
and Harmonization
Institutional Strengthening Project (cost US33.7
million) as a response to the NBI Challenges

• To undertake an institutional design process to
  prepare NBI for the new challenges it will face
  with or without CFA ( provide time and resources
  to resolve the issues)

• To enhance basin-wide institutional integration
  through a harmonization of NBI policies and
  procedures across the basin

• To equip NBI with a more robust institutional
  infrastructure and critical skills needed to
  deliver its current program more effectively

• To consolidate and mainstream SVP outputs and to
  establish IWRM unit

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President Barack Obama
. But there is so much more to do. So tonight,
let us ask ourselves - if our children should
live to see the next century . what change
will they see? What progress will we have made?
This is our chance to answer that call. This is
our moment. This is our time - to put our people
back to work and open doors of opportunity for
our kids to restore prosperity and promote the
cause of peace
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Thank You
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Floods
Droughts
Threats to lives, property, infrastructure and
to the environment
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NBI Donors Partnership
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