..................................................................................................................................................... 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 ............................................