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| Fast Facts: |
• Project
Document
• Annex
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| Location: |
Regional |
| Duration: |
January
2004 – December 2009 |
| Focus
area: |
Energy
and Environment for Sustainable
Development |
| Donors: |
Global
Environment Facility (GEF)
World Bank (WB)
Nile Basin trust Fund (NBTF)
UNDP
Nile countries
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| Total
Funds Available: |
US$
40.6 Million |
| Partners: |
National
Project Coordination and Micro-grant
Coordination offices in each NBI
Country.
World Bank
NBI Secretariat with the assistance
of United Nations office for projects
services (UNOPS) |
| Delivery
for 2007:
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US$
180,766.59 |
| Contact
person in UNDP: |
Hanan
Mutwakil, Programme Analyst.
Hanan.mutwakil@undp.org
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Background
“The dominant river system in
Sudan is the Nile, the basin of which
extends over 77 percent of the country.
The river’s two main tributaries,
the Blue and White Nile, flow into Sudan
from Ethiopia and Uganda respectively,
and meet in Khartoum before flowing
north into Egypt. In an otherwise arid
terrain, the Nile plays a crucial role
in the country’s various ecosystems.
Sudan also has over 750 km of coastline
and territorial waters in the Red Sea,
which include an archipelago of small
islands.” Sudan Post-Conflict
Environmental Assessment, UNEP,
2007, p.42.
Sudan shares the Nile River with
Burundi, the Democratic Republic of
Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The 10
countries sharing the Nile make up
the so-called Nile Basin that covers
an area of 3 million square kilometers.
While sharing this rich natural resource,
the countries of the Nile Basin face
several challenges related to the
high levels of poverty, rapid population
growth, lack of access to basic services,
serious energy problems, and severe
environmental degradation.
Recognizing that cooperative development
holds the greatest prospects for bringing
benefits to the entire region, the
Nile riparian countries took an historic
step in establishing the Nile Basin
Initiative. Formally launched in February
1999 by the Council of Ministers of
Water Affairs of the Nile Basin States,
the Initiative provides an institutional
mechanism, a shared vision, and a
set of agreed policy guidelines to
provide a basin-wide framework for
cooperative action. The long-term
goal of the Shared Vision Programme
(SVP) is to create the enabling environment
for the Nile riparian countries to
“achieve sustainable socioeconomic
development through the equitable
utilization of, and benefit from,
the common Nile Basin water resources.”
In 2004, with the support of Global
Environment Facility,
World Bank and Nile Basin Trust
Fund, UNDP started the Nile Transboundary
Environmental Action Project as one
of eight projects under
the Nile Basin Initiative Shared Vision
Programme. The project provides
a strategic framework for environmentally
sustainable development of the Nile
River Basin and supports basin-wide
environmental action linked to transboundary
issues in the context of the Strategic
Action Programme.
Objectives
The main objective of the Nile Transboundary
Environmental Action Project is to provide
a strategic environmental framework
for the management of transboundary
waters and environmental challenges
in the Nile River Basin.
The specific objectives of the project
are:
• Provide a forum to discuss development
paths for the Nile with a wide range
of relevant partners,
• Improve the understanding of
the relationship between water resources
development and the environment,
• Enhance the environmental management
capacities of basin-wide institutions
and the Nile Basin Initiative.
Snapshots of the project's major achievements
Please click on the “Nile Transboundary
Environmental Action Programme (NTEAP)
Annual report”.
For more information on the Nile Basin
Initiative, please visit:
www.nileteap.org
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