Zutari brought extensive expertise in operational management, integrated water resource management, and environmental flow assessments for shared river systems in Africa, including the Limpopo, Incomati-Maputo, Orange-Senqu, Okavango, and Zambezi basins. In 2011, NBI awarded Zutari, together with four other consultancies, a USD 850,000 contract for the pilot application of the NB-DSS.

Zutari’s work covered:

• Hydrological and system analyses


• Sophisticated scenario analysis


• Project management


• Capacity building

The NB-DSS developed and evaluated strategic decision-making for the basin, particularly for cross-border or basin-level decisions. It included:

• A Nile Basin knowledge repository


• A communication and information management system


• A regional river basin planning model


• A suite of analytic tools


• Development of core national capabilities for Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda