As a response, the Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat has launched the project “Enhancing Climate Services for Infrastructure Investments (CSI)” funded by the German Federal Ministry for the environment and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The aim of the CSI is to provide climate data products and develop human capacity to conduct climate risk assessments and to prioritize measures to adapt to the negative
consequences of climate change and extreme weather events on water infrastructures. In essence, the focus is on two climate services:• Products considering climate change for PMF and IDS for floods based on NBI downscaled climate scenarios • Assessments in terms of the reliability of service