NBCBN-RE
NBCBN-RE
Nile Basin Capacity Building Network for River Engineering
Member countries:
Egypt, Suda, Ethiopia, Uganda , Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, D.R. Congo.
Objectives:
Developmental Objective:
To ensure that the Nile Basin water resources are developed and managed in an equitable, optimal, integrated, and sustainable manner.
Long Term objective:
To contribute to the establishment of an overall knowledge network for the Nile region (Nile Net) as a means to support stability and solidarity, and to support the activities of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in building strategic partnerships between water professionals, research and government authorities in a sensitive environment in Africa.
Specific Objectives:
- To develop a sustainable regional Knowledge Network of water sector professionals from the Nile Basin and related Communities of Practice, using the innovative concepts and best practices of Knowledge Networking and COP's.
- To strengthen regional water Research capacity on the basis of problem-solving, multidisciplinary and stakeholder-involved research-pilots and training-on-demand.
- To develop a regional water Knowledge base and to build human and institutional capacity through a collaborative and participative process of knowledge sharing, creation, dissemination and application among water professionals of all ten Nile basin countries.
- To support the involvement of CoP-members in market-driven R&D activities and to stimulate the network communities to become also involved in broader cross-cutting issues like Management of Water Scarcity, Impact of Climate Change and Climate Variability on the water resources system, Extreme Events, etc.
- To develop a sound monitoring and facilitation mechanism to guide and support the Network Development process at local, national, regional and international level.
Outputs:
2007
- Establishment of a node in DR Congo;
- 13 operational research teams;
- Linkage to the Nile basin Applied Training Project;
- The 12th edition of the regular diploma course in Hydraulic Engineering in River Basins;
- Refresher seminar on "Institutional Development and Capacity Building needs for Integrated River Basin Management: a cross-basin blended learning seminar in Nanjing (Yangtze) and Cairo (Nile)";
- Internet Knowledge platform.
Documents:
Progress report 2007.
Report 2004 (Click to download)
Network activities in 2004
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