14 Oct 2016
New Nexus Country Profile for Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan
TH Cologne - University of Applied Sciences has developped a new fact sheet format with nexus information for African countries of the Eastern Nile region. The Nexus Country Profiles represent a policy-oriented assessment tool using sheets of key indicators on resource uses on a country level. They depict the profiles of each sector and capture the interlinks to other sectors considering development factors and resource use trends in the respective country.
The Nexus Country Profiles include a Nexus Rapid Assessment of water, energy and food securities in each country, allowing for inter-country comparison.
Different resource endowments and use patterns in the region indicate common challenges and opportunities for transboundary cooperation on issues like resource protection, technological intensificaiton in agriculture, hydropwer development and energy trade.
"The nexus debate is often quite technical and abstract," says Dr Mohammad AlSaidi, research assistant professor at the Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Qatar, who has been leading the drafting of the Nexus Profiles, "with our short county profiles we illustrate concrete trends and interlinks."
Two more Country profiles for Vietnam and Nepal are under preparation.
The Nexus Country Profiles have been developed by the Nexus Research Focus of the TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences under the leadership of the Institute for Technology in the Tropics (ITT).
Available Nexus Country Profiles
- Egypt
- Sudan
- Ethiopia