The Report presents the results of the Phase 1 Diagnosis Study of Component 1, covering the period end of September 2007 to the end of May 2008. During this phase the Consultants have collected, in close collaboration with ENTRO and the National Coordinators (NCs) studies, maps, drawings, and other relevant information and have reviewed data, available on the relevant GIS databases in Ethiopia and Sudan. This report presents the information that is required to assess values of parameters, that are used in the multi criteria analysis (MCA) to rank projects (described in chapter 5). MCA is applied in the report on a sub-study of Phase 2: Analysis of the Cooperative Regional Assessment (CRA).