Nile Basin Initiative shares MRC experience

In October 2007 the Mekong River Commission Secretariat hosted a sixday study tour by 26 members of the Nile Basin Initiative, representing nine African nations.

The delegates from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda came from the Water Resources Planning and Management Project (WRPM), which aims to enhance technical and analytical capacity in the region to support the development, management and protection of the Nile Basin water resources. The WRPM is one of eight projects under the NBI’s Shared Vision Programme.

The project has three technical components: water policy good practice guides and support; project planning and management good practice guides and support; and a decision support system (DSS). The Nile Basin DSS is the core component of the WRPM project. Its objective is to provide a common, basin-wide platform for communication, information management, and analysis of the Nile basin water resources.

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