This strategy was prepared by the Nile Technical Advisory Committee (NILE-TAC) and Nile Basin Environmental
Flows Expert Group throughout the course of the ‘Preparation of NBI Guidance Document on Environmental
Flows’ – Project.1
The Strategy preparation process involved two consultation workshops with a regional working group drawn from
NBI member countries - from the 29th July to 1st August 2015 in Kigali, Rwanda and 25th to 26th April 2016 in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; a review of international practice in environmental flow management (documented in
Background Document 1: Environmental Flow Assessment: A review of global practices and experiences), a desk
level assessment of the Nile Basin aquatic ecosystems types and their status (compiled as Background Document II:
Aquatic ecosystems of the Nile Basin, their wellbeing and response to flow alterations) and a review of experiences
with e-flow management in the Nil Basin countries (compiled in Background Document III: Management of
environmental flows in the Nile River Basin: practices and experiences).