On 23 and 24 July, the Nile BDC organised a regional stakeholder dialogue in Bahir Dar to share emerging findings on land and water management with partners from Ethiopia’s regions and explore how to institutionalize a regional platform for NRM. It built on the messages emerging from the recent NBDC science meeting.
Participants discuss key issues to take forward (Credit: ILRI/Meron Mulatu)
About 55 participants from the regions in Ethiopia where NBDC is active (Amhara and Oromia) and from other regions (Tigray and SNNPR) as well as from federal and international institutions discussed:
- An overview of NBDC activities in the three pilot sites – Jeldu, Fogera, Diga (presentation by Simon Langan)
- Major learning from the pilot interventions: tools and practices
- NBDC messages and their contribution for policy and institutions at the regional level
- Experiences from other projects:
- Managing environmental resources to enable rehabilitation (MERET) project (presentation)
- Experience of GIZ–SLM Amhara on agricultural water management (presentation)
- Success stories of learning watersheds in BNB of Amhara region: Lessons and implications for sustainable RWM (presentation)
- Major challenges in rainwater management in the Abay basin: By Abay Basin experts in collaboration with the Bureau of Agriculture and the Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI)
- Institutionalization of a regional NRM platform: Ownership and way forward
Read more about the regional stakeholders’ dialogue on the NBDC wiki,
See presentations and notes from the meeting
More presentations from the: Nile BDC
Nile Basin Development Challenge 
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