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Developing Benefit Sharing Framework [BSF] For Nile Basin Countries
Stakeholders of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) Socio-economic Development and Benefit Sharing (SDBS) project recently expressed appreciation for the progress made by the project in developing the first phase of the Benefit Sharing Framework (BSF) for the Nile Basin countries and recommended that NBI puts in place dedicated staff to facilitate the development of the Stage2 and Stage3 of the BSF-Phase II, and its operationalisation.
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Participants at the workshop pose for a group photo

This was at the end of a three-day (8-10 June 2009) workshop organized by SDBS at the Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala-Uganda, to disseminate to stakeholders the outputs of the project, review the linkage of SDBS with NBI and other institutions as well as identify actions to promote the sustainable utilization of the outputs.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 June 2009 )
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NB Countries Scoped-out Poverty-related Issues Launched at the 4th SDBS-PSC Meeting of February 2009
NB countries scoped-out poverty-related issues were launched at the 4th SDBS-PSC meeting of February 2009. The scoping out of NB countries’ poverty-
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The Project Manager at the handover
related issues was undertaken in the period of February to July 2007 focusing on five themes with five clusters of NB Participating Institutions looking at Water/Natural Resources Management; Food Security, Energy, Cross Border Trade and Benefit Sharing
 
Nine Participating Institutions each representing a NB country, undertook the studies.  For Burundi, the study was conducted by Researchers at the- Centre Universitaire de Recherches pour le Développement Economique et Social.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 09 April 2009 )
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Welcome to the SDBS Website
The SDBS is aimed at building a network of professionals from economic planning and research institutions, technical experts from both the public and private sectors, academics, sociologists, and representatives from civic groups and NGOs from across the basin to explore alternative Nile development scenarios and benefit-sharing schemes.