The Nile Basin and the Southern Sudan Referendum
The Water Governance Facility published a new Regional Water Intelligence Report, providing updates on the political economy of transboundary water resource issues, management and developments in the Nile basin, assessing different scenarios in relation to the South Sudan independence referendum. The report looks at the socio-economic aspects of water management and highlight the links between water, energy, food and human security from a regional perspective.
This RWIR provides an analysis of the political landscape at the national and regional level in the Nile Basin including a political and legal analysis of the upcoming Southern Sudan referendum 2011. The objective is to prepare a base line to analyze key political events and their potential impact on Nile cooperation, within the framework of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), with a specific focus on the upcoming referendum in Southern Sudan. Some recommendations are explored that the international community could consider taking in the post referendum process to strengthen development and cooperation. The analysis of political events provides input to further analysis on the political economy of water in the Nile basin. The report does not provide a detailed overview of the NBI process to date which is provided elsewhere.
The report can be downloaded here.
The purpose of the Regional Water Intelligence
Reports (RWIR) is to provide regular updates on the political economy of
transboundary water resources issues, management and development. The RWIR
focuses on the socio-economic aspects of water management and highlight the
links between water, energy, food and human security from a regional
perspective.
For more information, please visit our website www.watergovernance.org
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By Jakob Granit (Team leader), Ana Cascao, Inga Jacobs, Christina Leb, Andreas Lindström and Mara Tignino
Stockholm, December, 2010
Contact information |
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(email: watergovernance@siwi.org ) Phone: +46 8 522 139 60 ; Fax: +46 8 522 139 61 |
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://www.watergovernance.org/documents/Resources/Reports/1012_RWIR_Nile_Basin.pdf |
Source of information | Regional Water Intelligence Report |
Keyword(s) | political economy of transboundary water resources issues, water governance, food security |
Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , WATER DEMAND |
Geographical coverage | Sweden, Egypt, Sudan, |
News date | 05/01/2011 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |