TG1: Legal & Institutional framework for transboundary water cooperation in the Nile Basin: State of affairs ***ENDED
Session Summary Available on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqDFKlvAR_o
Presentations available on: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XQi139BmK8gqa0FtbLo7UEBq1wCrTp8R?usp=sharing
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Host: Ana Elisa Cascão
Programme:
Seifeldin Abdalla, (Executive Director of NBI) : Welcome remarks and introduction
Dr. Salman Salman, (IWRA) : Keynote paper: The Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement, Is the impasse breakable - why is it needed for a future regional investment agenda?
Prof. Alistair Rieu-Clarke, (Northumbria University) :Keynote paper: Transboundary hydropower projects seen through the lens of three international legal regimes: foreign investment, environmental protection and human rights
Q&A : Discussion of keynote speeches
Stock-taking
Mahemud Tekuya, (University of the Pacific – McGeorge School of Law) :Governing the GERD under climatic variability: the need for a flexible basin-wide agreement for investment projects in the Nile Basin
Prof. Abdalla Abdelsalam Ahmed, (UNESCO Sudan - Chair in Water Resources) : Nile Basin Cooperation from a Sudanese perspective: lessons learned from the NBI and GERD processes
Robert Sunday, (Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Tanzania) : Transboundary Water Cooperation and Hydro-Governance: what and how long it takes to negotiate to reach agreements?
Gashaw Ayferam Endaylalu, (Institute of Strategic Affairs (ISA), Ethiopia) : Nile Cooperative Framework Agreement: in quest for regional approaches to transboundary water management and development in the Nile Basin
Dr. Mina Saaman, (Mansoura University, Egypt) : Eastern Nile Basin Future: Prospects of regional economic cooperation and investments, and its implications to the national levels in the EN Basin countries
Moderator: Dr. Ana Elisa Cascão, (GIZ Uganda) : Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Representatives from EN and NEL countries.
Closing by Caretakers and Rapporteurs : Wrap up and key messages from the webinar
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