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Feasibility studies, detailed designs and tender documents preparation in Environmental, Social and x
irrigation, hydropower and watershed management and the associated ESIAs Governance Safeguards

Improved ecosystem-based
Strengthening regional inter-sectoral coordination with national Sector- policies, planning & x
Wide Approach to Planning (SWAP);
regulations
Improved / strengthened
Supporting the NBI to host Strategic Dialogues, including the Annual Nile governance & transboundary x
Day and the Nile Basin Development Forum
collaboration

Improved ecosystem-based
Supporting strategic fora such as policy dialogues, which helped policies, planning & x
Institutions harmonize fishery legislation and relations between Uganda and the DRC
regulations
Improved / strengthened
Networks of environmental and social specialists that have been governance & transboundary x
assisting ENTRO strengthened through an intensive training program
collaboration
Improved / strengthened
Support engagement with inter-ministerial mechanisms at the national x
level on these issues governance & transboundary
collaboration
Support the development of Catchment Management Plans for Middle Improved ecosystem-based
Malakisi in the Sio-Malaba Malakisi sub-basin and the Ol Choro Lemek in policies, planning & x
the Mara sub-basin regulations

Investments

Thematic CIWA Activity Link - Biodiversity Action Linkages Linkages
Area - Direct - Indirect

Natural capital & provision of
ecosystems services
Four Eastern Nile watershed management projects were prepared to the
design phase, delivered to the countries, and implemented with NCORE Improved ecosystem x
financing
integrity, species diversity &
connectivity
Promoting climate resilient catalytic and transformative investment Natural capital & provision of
opportunities. Specific activities included capacity building of the NEL
riparian member states in general and basin water offices specifically (or ecosystems services
water management zones and basin water boards) on: i) water resources Improved ecosystem x
allocations; ii) dam safety and reservoir operations; iii) flood
management; and iv) implementation of Catchment Management Plans integrity, species diversity &
connectivity
(CMPs).
Investments Support feasibility study preparation, ESIA/RAP assessments, and detailed Environmental, Social and x
designs and tender documents for 4 transboundary-relevant investments Governance Safeguards

Natural capital & provision of
ecosystems services
Facilitating more holistic approaches to preparing and operating water
investments, to better take into consideration environmental and x
social issues Improved ecosystem
integrity, species diversity &
connectivity

Fund the preparation of future cooperative investments in watershed Natural capital & provision of
management. Through its Cooperative Regional Assessment in ecosystems services
Watershed Management, ENTRO has already identified the most critical x
high erosion hot spots in the region, which are experiencing the most Improved ecosystem
extensive degradation and are causing downstream sediment integrity, species diversity &
management issues. connectivity

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