Transport and Navigation - NEL and Eastern Nile Regions
Overview
Summary
The Regional Transport and Navigation Development Project is one of several priority projects under the Integrated Water Resources Development and Management Plan for the Baro-Akobo-Sobat Sub-basin in the Eastern Nile region. This project will investigate and evaluate the feasibility of investments to improve the role of navigation in the Baro-Akobo-Sobat sub-basin within the context of regional transport and access to markets as a whole. It will also carry out the necessary planning and design work to get the project ready for implementation and support its implementation.
The project identification was completed in 2017 with funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB) under the Baro-Akobo-Sobat multipurpose water resources development study project.
Description
The Regional Transport and Navigation Development Project is one of several priority projects under the Integrated Water Resources Development and Management Plan for the Baro-Akobo-Sobat Sub-basin in the Eastern Nile region. This project will investigate and evaluate the feasibility of investments to improve the role of navigation in the Baro-Akobo-Sobat sub-basin within the context of regional transport and access to markets as a whole. It will also to carry out the necessary planning and design work to get the project ready for implementation and support its implementation.
The project identification was completed in 2017 with funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB) under the Baro-Akobo-Sobat multipurpose water resources development study project.
Objectives
Investigate and evaluate the feasibility of investments to improve the role of navigation in the Baro-Akobo-Sobat sub-basin within the context of regional transport and access to markets as a whole
Progress history
- 2024 Project Definition planned: Feasibility
- 2022 Project Definition planned: Feasibility
Key facts
- Programme
- Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO)
- Status
- Active
- Countries
- Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
- Location
- 3.414, 30.959
- Last updated
- 6 Oct 2026
Financing
USD million- Preparation cost
- 4.50
- Preparation funding gap
- 0.00
- Capital cost (CAPEX)
- 0.00
- CAPEX funding gap
- 0.00
- Operation cost
- 0.00
- Total cost
- 4.50
Stakeholders
- Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office - ENTRO
- ENTRO
- Egypt - Government of Egypt
- GoEG
- Ethiopia - Government of Ethiopia
- GoET
- Government of South Sudan
- GoSS
- Nile River Basin Program
- NRBIP
- Sudan - Government of Sudan
- GoSD