Project Context:
An essential element for cooperation on the Eastern Nile is the development of a shared knowledge base and appropriate analytical tools, used effectively to support decision making among multiple stakeholders.  Currently, the knowledge base is fragmented and inconsistent, sharing of information is minimal, and there is lack of shared, modern, flexible analytical tools to envision various development scenarios and analyze their implications from economic, environmental and social viewpoints.

Project Objectives:
The development objective of the ENPM Project is that countries in the Eastern Nile operationalise an improved decision support modeling framework to identify water-related investments and evaluate them in a regional context.  The project is intended to strengthen the knowledge, modeling, and stakeholder interaction capacity of regional and national institutions to plan for water resources investments in a regional context, with appropriate regard to economic, environmental and social aspects.

Achievements to-date

• Grant agreement signed with the World Bank for total amount of 6.5 M US$
• Recruitment of the project regional coordinator 

• Fragmented and inadequate water resources related data base
• Insufficient data and information sharing mechanisms, institutions, infrastructure at EN level
  

• Lack of commonly developed and agreed tools for analyzing future water resource investments
• Poor decision-support focus
  

• Insufficient regional capacity and processes to support, coordinate , facilitate water resources related decision making at EN level
• Need to build ENTRO capacity as knowledge facilitator on EN
• Need to build broad-based consensus and shared vision on investment needs
  

• Recruiting and assembling the project team at regional and national level
• Establish the national project offices 
• Finalize the ToR for the main consultancy service
  

Sources of Funding:  NBTF: USD 6.5million