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

1. Water Resources Management and Development Sub-program
2. 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.

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