Elicad Elly NYABEEYA

Nyabeeya is a strategic Civil Engineer with specialty in water resources, sanitation, hygiene, climate change resilience, gender and environment and social safeguards mainstreaming in infrastructure projects. He has 26 years of extensive and progressive experience (18 years at senior management level) in project identification, preparation, coordination, management and implementation of multi-sectoral projects in integrated water resources, water supply, sanitation, hygiene, health, education, irrigation, climate change resilience, environment, fisheries, hydropower generation & electricity transmission lines, roads, housing building, durable shelter construction, bridges and institutional capacity building. He has implemented WASH projects at both national and international levels, in urban and rural community settings, worked in diverse contexts ranging from fragile, humanitarian and emergency situations, to post conflict recovery and development situations, covering ten (13) sub-Saharan and Horn of Africa countries (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, DRC, Burundi, South Sudan, Tanzania Somalia, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) and Bangladesh in Asia. Providing technical advisory services to Africa Water Facility - Africa Development Bank and support to the countries on water, sanitation, hygiene promotion, mainstreaming climate resilience; integrated water resource management; building-stronger-better and greener; nature-based solutions approaches; integration and inclusion of gender and social equity; environment; employment; fragility cross-cutting measures, for quality, cost-effectiveness, sustainability and impact soundness of WASH projects. Headed and coordinated a regional complex program, the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program (NELSAP) at the Nile Basin Initiative, spearheaded the development and implementation of climate-resilient water resources infrastructure projects covering eight (8) countries of the Nile Basin, in the sectors of transboundary water resources, hydropower generation & electricity transmission lines, community sustainable infrastructure projects in water supply and environment, with projects business portfolio of over USD 400 million, funded by World Bank, African Development Bank, GEF, Sida, KFW, EU, BMZ/GIZ, JICA, IsDB, AFD, Norway and Netherlands. He helped to mobilize over 30 million dollars for different water projects and programmes. He ensured teamwork, provide managerial support, technical advice and supervised directly a diversity team of eight (8) international managers in charge of water resources, energy, finance & administration, procurement, monitoring & evaluation sections and other project managers, and indirectly other project staff totaling over 63 people. Notably, managed and coordinated the construction of the transboundary complex 80MW Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric power plant from start and now in its final stages of completion, financed by the World Bank ($340 Million). The multinational project, owned by Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda included climate-resilient infrastructure projects under the Local Area Development and Livelihood component with over 60 Community Infrastructure projects in roads, education-schools, water supply, health centres. He established and managed the Project Implementation Unit with right mix and adequate staff, directed and provided oversight in the procurement of international contractors and consultants; managed project construction ensuring effective project coordination, contracts management and administration, compliance with environmental, social, health and safety safeguards; while he reported through the Project Steering Committee and Board of Directors to the Council of Energy Ministers from the three countries. He implemented and delivered a number of humanitarian water supply, sanitation and hygiene projects for urban and rural communities, in host communities, internally displaced persons and refugees, while he worked as a Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Specialist with UNICEF for over 10 years in South Sudan, Somalia and Bangladesh, which are countries in fragile or post-conflict situation. He championed the Uganda water sector decentralization reform implementation as a Project Manager for a Water Supply and Sanitation Programme (US $10.0 million) at European Union Microprojects Programme in Uganda. He coordinated decentralised project implementation pilot approach through the local governments in collaboration with the Government of Uganda and the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV), that provided technical assistance to the programme.