Environmental Functions of the Nile River Organization discussed at the NTEAP 5th PSC Meeting

The environmental functions of the envisaged permanent river basin organization for the Nile were high on the agenda during the fifth Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Project meeting that took place during 30-31 January 2008 in Mwanza, Tanzania. Recognizing that the future development of the basin must be environmentally friendly, the NTEAP project has been tasked to define the environmental functions of the river basin organization which is expected to be in place soon.

Following a lengthy discussion the PSC proposed the following main elements for the environment functions of the permanent River Basin Organization:

a.    Environmental Assessment and Monitoring
b.    Knowledge management and information sharing
c.    Capacity building
d.    Policy , institutional and legal analysis
e.    Coordination of action on agreed priorities

The PSC further recommended that the Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat concretizes the enlisted environmental functions through the Institutional Strengthening Project (ISP) which currently being appraised.

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