One System Inventory

The One System Inventory (OSI) Water Atlases are prepared for the four main sub-basins of the Eastern Nile: Abay-Blue Nile, Baro-Akobo-Sobat-White Nile, Tekeze-Atbara-Setit, and Main Nile. The Atlases are essentially provided with maps, charts and general information/brief descriptions about the sub-basins land, climate, hydrology, infrastructure and utilities, and few environmental issues. The sub-basin maps included are location, administrative, population density, elevation, shaded relief, terrain/landscape classification, surficial geology, dominant soils, rainfall, temperature, evaporation, humidity, sub-catchment drainage network, runoff, vegetation cover, landuse/landcover, isoerodent/sediment yield and malaria-prone areas. Whereas schematics of indicative water balance are presented for the main rivers of the EN sub-basins, maps showing existing and potential irrigation and hydropower projects are not incorporated.

This document constitutes the One System Inventory (OSI) environment and related issues report prepared for Ethiopia. The report provides invaluable accounts on: environmental policy, legislations, guidelines, institutional frameworks/settings and international agreements; baseline data on biological and physical environments as well as on socio-economic conditions; environmental threats or constraints including land degradation, deforestation, sedimentation, pollution, storages, etc.; environmentally sensitive and/or protected areas; environmental impacts of possible developments; water quality assessment and monitoring, and other related environmental issues.

With the objective of compiling essential information on water and related resources of the Eastern Nile sub-basins that can be used to support analysis for the identification of multipurpose development opportunities under the EN Multipurpose Development Program, water resources inventory report was prepared for the Sudan. Essential topics given account in these country-based One System Inventory (OSI) report includes physical features of sub-basins, climate and hydrology, water infrastructure (hydropower, irrigation, navigation, storage, etc.), water resources development and management, water quality, etc. Also provided in the reports are: time-series monthly climatic and river flow data for selected stations, available sediment data, and some annotated references.

With the objective of compiling essential information on water and related resources of the Eastern Nile sub-basins that can be used to support analysis for the identification of multipurpose development opportunities under the EN Multipurpose Development Program, water resources inventory report was prepared for Ethiopia. Essential topics given account in these country-based One System Inventory (OSI) report includes physical features of sub-basins, climate and hydrology, water infrastructure (hydropower, irrigation, navigation, storage, etc.), water resources development and management, water quality, etc. Also provided in the reports are: time-series monthly climatic and river flow data for selected stations, available sediment data, and some annotated references.

The One System Inventory (OSI) Water Atlases are prepared for the four main sub-basins of the Eastern Nile: Abay-Blue Nile, Baro-Akobo-Sobat-White Nile, Tekeze-Atbara-Setit, and Main Nile. The Atlases are essentially provided with maps, charts and general information/brief descriptions about the sub-basins land, climate, hydrology, infrastructure and utilities, and few environmental issues. The sub-basin maps included are location, administrative, population density, elevation, shaded relief, terrain/landscape classification, surficial geology, dominant soils, rainfall, temperature, evaporation, humidity, sub-catchment drainage network, runoff, vegetation cover, landuse/landcover, isoerodent/sediment yield and malaria-prone areas. Whereas schematics of indicative water balance are presented for the main rivers of the EN sub-basins, maps showing existing and potential irrigation and hydropower projects are not incorporated.

This document constitutes the One System Inventory (OSI) environment and related issues report prepared for Sudan. The report provides invaluable accounts on: environmental policy, legislations, guidelines, institutional frameworks/settings and international agreements; baseline data on biological and physical environments as well as on socio-economic conditions; environmental threats or constraints including land degradation, deforestation, sedimentation, pollution, storages, etc.; environmentally sensitive and/or protected areas; environmental impacts of possible developments; water quality assessment and monitoring, and other related environmental issues.

The One System Inventory (OSI) Water Atlases are prepared for the four main sub-basins of the Eastern Nile: Abay-Blue Nile, Baro-Akobo-Sobat-White Nile, Tekeze-Atbara-Setit, and Main Nile. The Atlases are essentially provided with maps, charts and general information/brief descriptions about the sub-basins land, climate, hydrology, infrastructure and utilities, and few environmental issues. The sub-basin maps included are location, administrative, population density, elevation, shaded relief, terrain/landscape classification, surficial geology, dominant soils, rainfall, temperature, evaporation, humidity, sub-catchment drainage network, runoff, vegetation cover, landuse/landcover, isoerodent/sediment yield and malaria-prone areas. Whereas schematics of indicative water balance are presented for the main rivers of the EN sub-basins, maps showing existing and potential irrigation and hydropower projects are not incorporated.

The Social Atlas provides different maps depicting major social indicators in the Eastern Nile basin disaggregated by major political divisions in the countries. These include demographic and socio-economic topics such as population size and growth rates; unemployment; living standards (poverty headcount index, access to safe water and improved sanitation); health (life expectancy, infant & maternal mortality rate, child malnutrition, birth attended by skilled personnel, HIV/AIDS); education (adult literacy rate, primary & secondary education enrollment ratios, school drop-out rate, gender parity index). The Atlas can help increase users’ understanding of the region. However, other social indicators such as household sizes, fertility rates, income per capita, sources of income, etc. are not included.

This section comprises the One System Inventory (OSI) socio-economic report prepared for Egypt. This country-based document compiled relevant socio-economic issues and indicators such as: socio-economic regulatory institutional setting, basic demographic profiles, livelihood/employment characteristics, social and physical infrastructure provision (education/school, health, markets, roads, etc.), poverty, gender issues, conflict & conflict management, government & NGO development programs and plans, etc. Annotated bibliographies are also prepared for some references (research/study documents, publications, statistical abstracts, etc.).

The One System Inventory (OSI) Water Atlases are prepared for the four main sub-basins of the Eastern Nile: Abay-Blue Nile, Baro-Akobo-Sobat-White Nile, Tekeze-Atbara-Setit, and Main Nile. The Atlases are essentially provided with maps, charts and general information/brief descriptions about the sub-basins land, climate, hydrology, infrastructure and utilities, and few environmental issues. The sub-basin maps included are location, administrative, population density, elevation, shaded relief, terrain/landscape classification, surficial geology, dominant soils, rainfall, temperature, evaporation, humidity, sub-catchment drainage network, runoff, vegetation cover, landuse/landcover, isoerodent/sediment yield and malaria-prone areas. Whereas schematics of indicative water balance are presented for the main rivers of the EN sub-basins, maps showing existing and potential irrigation and hydropower projects are not incorporated.

With the objective of compiling essential information on water and related resources of the Eastern Nile sub-basins that can be used to support analysis for the identification of multipurpose development opportunities under the EN Multipurpose Development Program, water resources inventory report was prepared for Egypt. Essential topics given account in these country-based One System Inventory (OSI) report includes physical features of sub-basins, climate and hydrology, water infrastructure (hydropower, irrigation, navigation, storage, etc.), water resources development and management, water quality, etc. Also provided in the reports are: time-series monthly climatic and river flow data for selected stations, available sediment data, and some annotated references.

This section comprises the One System Inventory (OSI) socio-economic report prepared for Sudan. This country-based document compiled relevant socio-economic issues and indicators such as: socio-economic regulatory institutional setting, basic demographic profiles, livelihood/employment characteristics, social and physical infrastructure provision (education/school, health, markets, roads, etc.), poverty, gender issues, conflict & conflict management, government & NGO development programs and plans, etc. Annotated bibliographies are also prepared for some references (research/study documents, publications, statistical abstracts, etc.).

This document constitutes the One System Inventory (OSI) environment and related issues report prepared for Egypt. The report provides invaluable accounts on: environmental policy, legislations, guidelines, institutional frameworks/settings and international agreements; baseline data on biological and physical environments as well as on socio-economic conditions; environmental threats or constraints including land degradation, deforestation, sedimentation, pollution, storages, etc.; environmentally sensitive and/or protected areas; environmental impacts of possible developments; water quality assessment and monitoring, and other related environmental issues.

This section comprises the One System Inventory (OSI) socio-economic report prepared for Ethiopia. This country-based document compiled relevant socio-economic issues and indicators such as: socio-economic regulatory institutional setting, basic demographic profiles, livelihood/employment characteristics, social and physical infrastructure provision (education/school, health, markets, roads, etc.), poverty, gender issues, conflict & conflict management, government & NGO development programs and plans, etc. Annotated bibliographies are also prepared for some references (research/study documents, publications, statistical abstracts, etc.).

To promote the Eastern Nile (EN) Joint Multipurpose Program (JMP), inventories containing information on socio-economic issue was made for the three Eastern Nile countries (Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan). Subsequent to the need to compile these relevant country-based information at sub-basin level, three thematic synthesis reports were prepared with relevant info and data organized for the four main Eastern Nile sub-basins: Abay-Blue Nile, Baro-Akobo-Sobat-White Nile, Tekeze-Setit-Atbara, and Main Nile.

To promote the Eastern Nile (EN) Joint Multipurpose Program (JMP), inventories containing information on the water resources issue was made for the three Eastern Nile countries (Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan).

To promote the Eastern Nile (EN) Joint Multipurpose Program (JMP), inventories containing information on environment issue was made for the three Eastern Nile countries (Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan). Subsequent to the need to compile these relevant country-based information at sub-basin level, three thematic synthesis reports were prepared with relevant info and data organized for the four main Eastern Nile sub-basins: Abay-Blue Nile, Baro-Akobo-Sobat-White Nile, Tekeze-Setit-Atbara, and Main Nile.

These documents present the first trial version of the One System Inventory (OSI) information on the Eastern Nile: meant to serve as a regional knowledge-base across Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan. The information is organized into a summary report and four more detailed annexes on the four main trans-boundary sub-basins of the Eastern Nile (Abay-Blue Nile, Baro-Akobo-Sobat-White Nile, Tekeze-Setit-Atbara, and Main Nile). The work benefited from previously compiled national thematic OSI reports on environment, socio-economics and water in 2006 and the OSI synthesis reports in 2007, as well as from comments and suggestions received from regional workshop and meetings.