GERD: new norms of cooperation in the Nile Basin?

Cascão, Ana Elisa; Nicol, Alan

doi:10.1080/02508060.2016.1180763

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“…Plans are for power to be traded soon after completion of the dam on the basis of power-purchase agreements signed as early as 2011 with a number of neighboring countries, such as Kenya, Djibouti and Sudan. 90 The ambition of Ethiopia to make the sale of electricity as an export item qualifies the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation a profit making public enterprise. The regional state of Benishangul is to lose a vast area of land and large-scale of land will submerge when the filling of the GERD is completed.…”

Section: The Power Of States Over Water Transportation Incomes and Prmentioning

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Competing Water Resource Demands in Ethiopia’s Federal System: Infancy of the Law toward Integrated Management

Chelkeba¹

2019

Miz Law Rev

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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Constitution confines the power of regional states over water to administration of watercourse that flows within their respective territories. Various proclamations introduce an integrated approach to water resources management through the application of proper and integrated master planning. To this end, a new institutional framework is established through the creation of Basins" Development Authority at national level. The previously established Basin High Councils and Authorities were implementing integrated water management within their respective basins and the powers and obligations of the basin based high councils and authorities are transferred to the newly established National Basin High Council and Basins Development Authority. Some adjustments are necessary due to federalism and issues related to the constitutional framework of water resources that have been overlooked. When the Water Resources Management Proclamation and other water laws are read together with the various provisions of the FRDE Constitution, they lack clarity save the power of the federal government to enact framework legislation over water resources within states" territories. Works undertaken by the federal profit-oriented public enterprises transforming water into an economic good on the lands that are administered by the regional states is an area of on-going controversy. I argue that regional states should claim their constitutional right to levy and collect land use fee from profit making federal public enterprises that are engaged in transforming water into economic good within the framework of integrated water resources management system.

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Section: The Power Of States Over Water Transportation Incomes and Prmentioning

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Competing Water Resource Demands in Ethiopia’s Federal System: Infancy of the Law toward Integrated Management

Chelkeba¹

2019

Miz Law Rev

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“…Nile Basin Initiative has two complementary programs, namely the Shared Vision Progress and the Subsidiary Action Programs (NBI, 2014, cited by Cascao & Nicol, 2016). The first aims at creating an enabling environment for cooperation and development in the Nile basin through a number of basin wide activities, which include the negotiations for the Cooperative Framework Agreement.…”

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The role of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in nation building

Jungudo¹

2018

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Nation-building is a crucial project that requires the services of many actors to achieve. It embodies such elements as national integration, poverty reduction through employment generation, robust economic development through industrialisation, as well as infrastructural revolution through good governance. The actors involved in it have different and very important roles to play. Fortunately, over the years in the Nile River Basin, the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) an intergovernmental partnership of Nile Basin countries, aims to ensure that Nile Basin countries work together to unlock the huge potential in order to bring a vast range of benefits to Nile Basin citizens including increased hydropower, food production, improved management of watersheds and better access to water for domestic use, among others. Against this backdrop, the paper asked: what roles did the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) played in the overall project of nation-building in the Nile River Basin? Using Ethiopia as a case of study, this paper discovered that the NBI programs have contributed immensely towards nation building, which generated a swathe of shared benefits, transforming lives in Ethiopia.

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“…In the third article, Cascão and Nicol (2016) follow with a comprehensive critical assessment of GERD as both an outcome of change and a catalyst for future change. They begin with a background discussion on the cooperation process previous to the announcement of GERD, at the basin and sub-basin (Eastern Nile) levels.…”

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“…It is of note that, although the attention of scholars is often focused on the views of and relations between Egypt and Ethiopia, the project is of great importance for all Nile riparian states. Sudan played a pivotal role in the trilateral negotiations on GERD from the very beginning, and provided official backing to the project, whilst constantly highlighting the downstream benefits of GERD (Cascão & Nicol, 2016;Salman, 2016).…”

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“…While notable successes with respect to the multilateral cooperation processes have therefore been achieved (see also technical cooperation under the NBI and political negotiations under the Cooperative Framework Agreement, CFA), reaching a permanent legal or institutional framework that is accepted by all co-riparians remains a key challenge (Cascão & Nicol, 2016).…”

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How has the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam changed the legal, political, economic and scientific dynamics in the Nile Basin?

Yihdego

Rieu‐Clarke

Cascão

2016

Water International

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This issue articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) through multiple disciplinary lenses: its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation in the eastern Nile basin; its regional and global implications; its benefits and possible drawbacks; the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam filling; and the need for participatory and transparent decision making.

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GERD: new norms of cooperation in the Nile Basin?

Cited by 52 publications

References 17 publications

Competing Water Resource Demands in Ethiopia’s Federal System: Infancy of the Law toward Integrated Management

Competing Water Resource Demands in Ethiopia’s Federal System: Infancy of the Law toward Integrated Management

The role of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in nation building

How has the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam changed the legal, political, economic and scientific dynamics in the Nile Basin?

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