📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2020.2281.2
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
1500 East Africa
Contact person:
Conrad Thombansen conrad.thombansen@giz.de
Partner countries:
EAC East Africa, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
SUMMARY
Goals:
The institutional framework for integrated management of transboundary water resources in the East African Community of States has been strengthened.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Secretariat of the East African Community (EAC)
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
5,800,000 euros
Current project:
5,800,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
12/10/2021 - 12/31/2024
Current project:
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2024
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
ARGE GFA Consulting Group GmbH -
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Biodiversity Convention
Significant secondary objective
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
Adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary objective
Climate change, reduction of greenhouse gases
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
14010 Water Sector Policy and Management
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
In the territory of the East African Community (EAC) there are several cross-border water catchment areas as well as the lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, Albert, Edward, Kivu and Turkana. Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world. Around 45 million people live in its catchment area, the Victoria Basin, and it extends as far as Rwanda and Burundi.
There are already some institutional and legal frameworks for dealing with water. However, water withdrawals are not regulated. Water quality is at risk and watersheds are not adequately protected.
Goal
The cross-border water resources in the seven partner countries of the East African Community of States are used sustainably and economically productively.
Approach
The project works with the EAC Secretariat to improve the framework for transboundary water resource management and revise water policy. It also promotes exchange with other regional organizations and institutions in the regional water management, for example the South African Development Community (SADC).
The project also supports the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) in Kenya in carrying out its core water management functions efficiently. For this purpose, a new digital platform for data and knowledge management and an internal specialist unit for water management are bein
