The Nubian Project

Project-wide considerations

The project faces a number of considerations that should guide and influence its overall implementation process.

A full integration of the NSAS activities embodied in the respective natural resource management programmes at a national and regional level will be promoted.

The basis for an effective monitoring network, with stations across the NSAS to be used by all four countries, will be needed to regularly provide consistent and accurate information for developing both the SADA and SAP, and later for monitoring SAP implementation and results. Modeling will also be used to assess potential risks, and to later test the feasibility of possible solutions.

Consideration will be given to the inter-relatedness of water resource management and policy issues with the Nile River Basin in Egypt and Sudan. Cooperation will therefore be assured with the Nile Basin Initiative as appropriate.

In the long-term, the Nubian Project should help lead to more sustainable sources of funding for aquifer management. Concrete country commitments to reforms and investments in effective groundwater management and the rational and efficient use and protection of the common non-renewable aquifer resource should follow. A larger GEF project to implement the SAP could also follow.

Finally, to show that the project partners take the project seriously, are committed to its implementation and concrete results, and to ensure transparency, project progress and results will be regularly communicated to audiences, especially through the IAEA.