Nile River Basin Management Plan

The Nile Agenda is about what needs to be done to support the attainment of the Nile Vision Objective, agreed by the NBI member countries in 2002 to “achieve sustainable socio-economic development through equitable utilisation of, and benefit from, the common Nile Basin water resources.” The focus is on the availability of sustainable water resources right across the basin in support of development and provision of benefits. The NBI 10-year Strategy (NBI, 2017) Strategic Direction 1.6 recognises the need to strengthen joint basin and sub-basin water resources management planning. This underlines the need for an overarching Strategic River Basin Management Plan under which future versions of the NBI 10-year Strategy and the action plans of the three NBI centres will fall. It will also provide guidance to other regional organisations and the Nile Basin states in terms of the route towards the sustainable development of the Nile River Basin. The objective of the NRBMP is to guide the planning and implementation of water resources management and development interventions in the Nile River Basin at national, sub-regional and regional levels.