81258808 — Preparation of a Nile River Basin Management Plan and a Nile Basin Investment Program (Phase I)

Nile basin countries face increasing challenges of meeting the requirements of their rapidly growing populations, which result in intensification of utilizing the Nile waters e.g. for agricultural and energy purposes. Individual riparian countries are embarking on major developments of water resources infrastructure, which can have major implications for the basins water resources. The Nile Basin countries, through the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) have now shown commitment to put in place a Nile River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) that consolidates the achievements made in the past 20 years of cooperation, and that can provide for closer coordination between the different national development plans while at the same time providing a strategic direction for addressing water resources challenges and for optimizing the basin development in an integrated and cooperative manner for the benefit of all riparian countries. The RBMP shall in turn inform the preparation of a basin-wide, multi-actor investment programme to promote water security in a cooperative and environmentally sustainable manner. The assignment shall be carried out in two phases. Phase I focuses on developing the river basin management plan and a concept for the basin-wide investment program. Phase II is an option and focuses on developing the basin-wide, multi-actor investment program. The Phases are to be implemented in an overlapping manner from December 2020 to December 2021 with a possible extension until June 2022.