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Basins Covered in the Project
Abbay Basin
The Abay River Basin is the second largest basin in Ethiopia and covers 20% of the country's territory.
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Awash Basin
The Awash River Basin is one of Ethiopia's 12 river basins and is the most utilized.
The basin covers 114,123 square kilometers and includes five regional states and two administrative councils.
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Omo-Gibie Basin
The Omo-Gibe River Basin is a river basin that extends across the border of Ethiopia and Kenya. The basin is made up of two river sub-basins: the Omo-Gibe in Ethiopia and the Rift Valley Catchment Area in Kenya.
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Rift Valley Lakes Basin
The Rift Valley Lakes Basin (RVLB) is a 53,000 square kilometer area that forms the southern part of the Main Ethiopian Rift.
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Tekeze Basin
The Tekeze Basin spans 69,000 square kilometers, streching from the Ethiopian-Eritrean border in the north to the Sudanese border in the west
Learn More About BRIGHT
Basin Management Support for Resilient, Inclusive Growth and Harmonized Transformation for the National IWRMP of Ethiopia (BRIGHT) is a five year project that is going to be implemented in five basins in Ethiopia.
The overall goal is to improve resilience and reduce vulnerability of population to drought and climate change in Ethiopia. The specific objectives of the project include:
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- To strengthen the institutional and governance (technical, managerial, regulatory, infrastructural and logistical) capacities of the MoWE and the selected Basin Authority Offices (BAOs) and concerned regional bureaus in IWRM,
- To support designing and have in-place a well-functioning Basin Information System for IWRM and generate additional evidence to fill knowledge gaps in the selected river basins;
- To support the revision/preparation of basin plans and facilitate their implementation by supporting priority and high impact IWRM projects in the target basins; and
- To establish climate-smart IWRM learning sub-basins and watersheds in the target basins.
