NELSAP SUB-PROGRAM AND PROJECTS
NELSAP-CU within its mandate facilitates jointly agreed transformative in-country projects with regional impact/significance and trans-boundary cooperative investment projects related to the common use of the Nile Basin water resources. It also builds regional capacity of countries and provides a platform for implementation coordination of trans– boundary investment projects.
NELSAP-CU renders support to national initiatives and focuses on two investment areas of: (i) power development and trade; and (ii) natural resources management and development. NELSAP-CU has prepared a number of cooperative in country and regional trans-boundary projects, which are at various levels of preparation and implementation. NELSAP-CU has mobilized finances for pre-investment and investment projects cumulatively totaling to USD 1.050 billion (pre-investment USD 557.107 million and for investment projects USD 493.018 million).
NELSAP SUB-PROGRAMS:
- Water Resources Management and Development Sub-program
- Power Development and Trade Sub-program
The Water Resources Management and Development sub-program
- Lakes Edward and Albert Integrated Fisheries and Water Resources Management Project (DRC/Uganda)
- Angololo Water Resources Development Project (Kenya/Uganda)
- Akanyaru Multipurpose Water Resources Project (Burundi and Rwanda)
- The Nile Equatorial Lakes Investment Project, NELIP (NEL COUNTRIES)
- Sio-Malaba-Malakisi River Basin Management Project (Kenya/Uganda);
- Mara River Basin Management Project (Kenya/Tanzania);
- Kagera River Basin Management Project (Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania);
- Nyimur Multipurpose Water Project (South-Sudan and Uganda);
- Bugesera Watershed Management Project (Rwanda/Burundi);
- The Nile Cooperation for Results (N-CORE)
- The Regional Hydroment Project
- Support to Trans boundary Water Cooperation in the Nile River Basin (EU-BMZ Wetlands Project)
- Regional Agricultural Trade and Productivity Project (NEL Countries)
- NEL Climate Adaptation Mainstreaming Project;
- NEL Water Resources Development Project.
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The Power Trade and Development sub-program
- Regional Rusumo Falls Hydro-Electric Project (RRFP);
- The Interconnection of Electric Grids of the NEL Countries Project (5 NEL Countries);
- Tanzania-Zambia Power Interconnection Study;
- Kenya–Tanzania Interconnection Project;
- Iringa–Mbeya Power Transmission line Project;
- Uganda–DR Congo Power transmission Line Project