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Dawa River Multi-purpose Dam

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Basic Information

Project Title	Dawa River Multi-purpose Dam
PIDA Sector	Trans-boundary Water
PIDA Sub-sector	Multipurpose Dams
Member States	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Region	Eastern Africa
Beneficiary Countries	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
Regional Economic Community	Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Project Institution	Ministry of Energy and Water Resources (Somalia); Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (Ethiopia); Ministry of Water and Sanitation (Kenya)

Strategic Alignment and Regional Commitment

Source in the National Master Plan	The governments of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have a proposed MoU on the Management of the Dawa River Waters to be mediated by IGAD
Source in the REC Master Plan	IGAD Regional Infrastructure Master Plan (IRIMP)
Brief Description of the Project	The proposed Dawa dam will be located in River Dawa at Latitude 4.064824 and Longitude 41.043819. The site is located approximately 20 km upstream of Rhamu Dimtu town in Mandera County of Kenya and 2km upstream of Boni centre in Ethiopia. The estimated dam height is about 90m with a capacity of approximately 4.5 Billion M3 and can be utilised to generate 8.2MW of hydropower.
Objective and Rationale for the Project	Dawa Dam project is intended to mitigate against the present situation and offer the residents of the basin a platform to jointly conserve the environment while utilizing the water resources and other biodiversity benefits of the basin. Hydropower will stimulate the much need agro-industries for value addition of the agricultural potential outputs. Farm by-products will offer the much-needed hay for the animals, thus ensuring the community acquires resilience to the climatic challenges of droughts and floods.
Location/Site	River Dawa at Latitude 4.064824 and Longitude 41.043819
Image/Map Files	Dawa-river-Dam-location.png
Existing or Planned Projects along the proposed project	The project serves a planned infrastructure asset of another sector, but there is less than 50% overlap in the geography serviced by the proposed project and the other sector planned asset.
Please provide more details for your choice above	Ongoing construction of Isiolo-Mandera road (Kenya); and planned upgrading of Mogadishu-Baidoa-Mandera road (Somalia)
Technical Specifications of the Project	4.5 Billion M3 of water; and generation of 8.2MW of hydropower
Market Size	20 million
Project Financial (in USD)	634 million
Gender Procurement actions	At least 30 percent of procurement and employment for women
Last Milestone Known	S1 - Project Definition

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