Nile Cooperation for Climate Resilience (WB-P172848)

Regions
  • Africa
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Proposed
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
A
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 15, 2021
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Nile Basin Initiative
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Climate and Environment
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Advisory Services
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 40.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS May 8, 2020

Disclosed by Bank Apr 7, 2020

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to bank documents, the project objective is to facilitate cooperation for climate resilient water resources management and development in the Nile Basin.

The proposed project builds on a solid, long-term technical engagement with the NBI, LVBC and NBD. The concept proposed scales up certain types of actions and engagements where the regional organizations have been successful in mobilizing countries around cooperative action and where countries have expressed interest and need for further engagement. In alignment with the proposed Project Development Objective (PDO), the project support is organized around two main focus areas: (i) climate-resilient water resources management; and (ii) cooperative development. The work will be delivered through regional processes where the platform for dialogue, trust building, capacity of member states and stakeholder engagement are the long-term objective of the program. Technical areas within these two focus areas are prioritized because they are priority regional issues in the basin, should not increase sensitivities of the hydropolitics of the basin, and because the NBI has a demonstrated track-record of engaging countries on regional cooperation on these topics. The prioritized issues for this support are aligned to these Focus Areas:

Focus Area 1: Climate-resilient water resources management
a. Platform for cooperation and dialogue
b. Flood and drought risk mitigation
c. Dam safety capacity building

Focus Area 2: Cooperative development
a. Innovative information services for climate-resilient investment planning
b. Water quality investment plan development
c. Irrigation modernization capacity building

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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World Bank:
Jacqueline Marie Tront, Lars Anders Jagerskog
Sr Water Resources Mgmt. Spec.

Borrower:
Nile Basin Initiative
Abdulkarim Seid
Deputy Director
aseid@nilebasin.org

Implementing Agencies:
Lake Victoria Basin Comission
Lily Kisaka
Program Officer
kisaka@lvbcom.org

Nile Basin Discourse
Helen Natu
Executive Director
hnatu@nbd.org 

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