Request For Expression Of Interest: Updating The Nile Hydropower Optimization And Flow Management Decision Support System (NHPFM-DSS)

Request for Expression of Interest

The Ministry of Water and Environment of Uganda with support from GIZ and the Nile Basin Initiative identified the need to update the existing DSS to better understand the hydrology of the upper Nile basin, inflows, and water levels to improve its regulatory and transboundary cooperation function and optimize its operations.

System Capabilities

• Forecast short-term to long-term flows (from two-week forecasts to 9 months forecasts).
• Investigate the impacts of different operation rules for the dam cascades as scenarios and establish the magnitude of the flood downstream selected infrastructure and waterbodies.