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Collaboration between FAO, the Government of Italy and the Nile Basin countries. Managing transboundary water

Natural Resources and Environment Issues in the spotlight. January 2011

Year of publication 2011

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department)

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Since 1996, FAO and the Government of Italy have been collaborating on an ambitious project along the basin of the world’s longest river. The “Information products for the Nile Basin Water Resource Management” was the sum total of three consecutive projects carried out with ten countries in the Nile Basin. In October 2011, the project officially concluded and was handed over to the Nile Basin Initiative, an intergovernmental organization created in 1999 and headquartered in Entebbe, Uganda.

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