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Benefit Sharing Framework [BSF] For Nile Basin Countries Developed |
Stakeholders of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) Socio-economic Development and Benefit Sharing (SDBS) project recently expressed appreciation for the progress made by the project in developing the first phase of the Benefit Sharing Framework (BSF) for the Nile Basin countries and recommended that NBI puts in place dedicated staff to facilitate the development of the Stage2 and Stage3 of the BSF-Phase II, and its operationalisation.  Workshop participants pose for a group photo This was at the end of a three-day (8-10 June 2009) workshop organized by SDBS at the Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala- Uganda, to disseminate to stakeholders the outputs of the project, review the linkage of SDBS with NBI and other institutions as well as identify actions to promote the sustainable utilization of the outputs. |
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Nile Basin Universities Forum launched |
 Participants at the Launch of the NB University Forum The Nile Basin Universities Forum (NBUF) was launched yesterday, June 17 2009, at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala, Uganda, at the beginning of a three-day conference jointly organized by Makerere University and the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI)’s Applied Training Project (ATP). The NBUF aims at promoting sustainable development in the Nile Basin through capacity enhancement and strategic research on Integrated Water Resources Management, related areas and climate change. |
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Positive steps towards Establishing a Permanent River Basin Commission |
 Members of the NILE-COM at the Kinshasa extraordinary meeting The Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the Nile Council of Ministers in charge of Water Affairs ( NILE-COM) was held under the Chairmanship of H.E. Jose Endundo Bononge, Chairperson, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, 22 May 2009. The meeting was focused on the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA). |
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