Date	Start	End	Dur.	Topic
June 16				Monday: June 16, 2008
	8:30	9:00	0:30	Registration
	9:00	9:15	0:15	Introduction and Program Overview King & Melesse
	9:15	9:30	0:15	Workshop objectives, expected products Giday WoldeGabriel
	9:30	9:50	0:20	Opening Speech H. E. State Minister Adugna Jebissa, MoWR
	9:50	10:10	0:20	Keynote: Water Resources of the Nile Basin - Extreme Events, Climate Change, and Regional Security G. L. Geernaert
	10:10	10:30	0:20	Keynote: Building Resilience in Water Policy and Management: Integrated Strategies to Meet the Challenge of Climate Change Robert Wilkinson
	10:30	11:00	0:30	Coffee Break
	11:00	11:40	0:40	NBI Secretariat and IWMI Presentations
	11:00	11:20	0:20	NBI secretariat
	11:20	11:40	0:20	IWMI representative
	11:40	12:40	1:00	Lunch
	12:40	15:00	2:20	ATP National Coordinators Presentations and Discussion
	15:00	15:30	0:30	Coffee Break
	15:30	16:30	1:00	Workshop Opening Session
	15:30	15:45	0:15	Ecohydrology and Climate Change Science: A Challenge and Opportunity in Understanding the Nile Basin System Assefa M. Melesse, Wossenu Abtew, Gabriel B. Senay
	15:45	16:00	0:15	Scientific and Technological Interventions to Alleviate Transboundary Water Concerns in the Nile River Basin Giday WoldeGabriel
	16:00	16:15	0:15	Energy Resources and Infrastructure Interdependence Jim Doyle
	16:15	16:30	0:15	Securing Water for the Environment in the Mara River of Lake Victoria Catchment, Kenya and Tanzania Michael McClain, Joseph Ayieko, Assefa Melesse, Praxedis Ndomba, Jay O’Keeffe, Leah Onyango, Rashid Tamatamah, D. Victor Wasonga
Date	Start	End	Dur.	Topic
June 17				Tuesday: June 17, 2008
	9:00	10:30	1:30	Climate Change, Land-use Dynamics and Hydrology of the Nile River Basin
	9:00	9:20	0:20	Climate Change Predictions for East Africa – Certainty, Uncertainty, and Recommendations G. L. Geernaert
	9:20	9:40	0:20	Significance of Past Climatic Records in Terrestrial Sediments for Assessing Current and Future Conditions Giday WoldeGabriel
	9:40	10:00	0:20	Blue Nile Basin Hydrology Relationship to Climatic Indices Wossenu Abtew, Assefa M. Melesse, Tibebe Desalegne
	10:00	10:20	0:20	Analysis of Hydrology and Water Resources of the Upper Nile Basin under Climate Change Ungtae Kim, Jagath Kaluarachchi
	10:20	10:30	0:10	Discussion, Announcements, Logistic
	10:30	11:00	0:30	Coffee Break
	11:00	12:00	1:00	Climate Change, Land-use Dynamics and Hydrology of the Nile River Basin (continue)
	11:00	11:20	0:20	Assessment Climate Change Impacts on the Hydrology of Gilgel Abbay Catchment in Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia Abdo K. S., Rientjes, T.H.M. and Gieske, A. S. M
	11:20	11:40	0:20	Estimating Environmental Flow Requirements Downstream of the Chara Chara Weir on the Abay (Blue Nile) River Matthew P. McCartney, Abeyu S.Yilma, Yilma Seleshi
	11:40	12:00	0:20	Discussions
	12:00	13:00	1:00