#14: Platform for information sharing and learning across basins within a state / between countries

Platforms and databases providing support to responsible authorities for the implementation of their water-related obligations (compliance with legislation, water planning, etc.).

In particular when implementing water legislation which involves paradigm shifts or changes (e.g. ecological approach, new water charges' system), implementation will be fraught with conceptual and legal difficulties. A platform of this type between authorities involved in

Water management refers to the activities of analysing and monitoring water resources, as well as developing and implementing measures to keep the state of a water resource within what has been negotiated as desirable bounds (Pahl-Wostl, 2015).

Pahl-Wostl, C. (2015). Water Governance in the Face of Global Change—From Understanding to Transformation. Wiesbaden: Springer International Publishing.

can help provide legal certainty about implementation, as well as facilitate the integration of water management requirements into other policy areas. These decentralised activities can be complemented by bilateral dialogues between e.g. the national level and the river basin authorities, so as to identify areas where the latter need to concentrate resources.

The Technical Committee Nile (TEC-NONILE) is an information-sharing platform for the Nile basin countries. Its mission is to enhance the capacity of its members to process information, to develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) and promote cooperation in the form of information-sharing. The platform provides a useful common direction for the development of the different national master plans which are expected to progressively converge towards a more comprehensive Nile Plan. The ambition of the program is to achieve a sufficient collection of information to collectively develop a system for the equitable allocation of the river’s water resources.