📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2021.2304.0
Status:
ongoing project
Responsible Organisational unit:
1100 West Africa 1
Contact person:
Hanna Albrecht hanna.albrecht@giz.de
Partner countries:
Niger River Authority, Benin, Niger, Nigeria
SUMMARY
Objectives:
The ABN's capacity to manage the collective use of Niger's water resources has been strengthened.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partner:
Niger Basin Authority
Financing organisation:
not available
VOLUME OF COMMISSION
Total financial commitment:
(including all previous, current and following project implementation phases, if existing)
3 500 000 Euro
Financial commitment for the actual implementation phase:
3 500 000 Euro
COFINANCING
not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT
not available
FOLLOW-ON PROJECT
not available
TERM
Entire project:
(including all previous, current and following project implementation phases, if existing)
30.11.2022 - 31.12.2026
Actual project implementation phase:
30.11.2022 - 31.12.2026
OTHER PARTICIPANTS
not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project websites
not available
POLICY MARKERS
Gender Equality
Significant (secondary) policy objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Principal (primary) policy objective
Climate Change: Adaptation
Significant (secondary) policy objective
CRS CODE
14040 River basins development
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Context:
At 4,200 kilometers long, the Niger is Africa's third-longest river. More than 160 million people live in its watershed. The Niger River Basin Authority (Autorité du Bassin du Niger, ABN) was founded in 1964 to coordinate and jointly manage the resources of the Niger Basin. Its member countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad.
The ABN makes an important contribution to cooperation among the riparian states. It also helps alleviate the region's serious development problems: improved water management, for example, can expand agriculture that uses irrigation systems. This enables higher yields and improves the population's food supply. Furthermore, the construction of dams improves energy and drinking water supplies and can contribute to mitigating flood damage.
Legal regulations between the ABN member countries already form the political, institutional, and legal basis for stronger regional cooperation. However, the countries are not yet sufficiently utilizing this potential. For example, there are currently only a few projects that jointly organize transboundary water resources.
Objective
The ABN advises member countries on how to jointly manage the Niger Basin's cross-border water resources in a climate-adapted manner. It successfully manages the processes required for this.
Approach
The project supports the ABN in completing the legal basis for cross-border cooperation between member countries and
