- For institutional and legal
see separate mind map
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Topography
- maps available?
- GIS data available
- Aerial & Satellite photos
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Land use
- maps and figures
- Existing roads, bridges, rail, pipelines
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Clearances and Obstructions on river
- bridges and crossings
- takeoff for irrigation
- takeoff for hydro
- Meteorology
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Hydrological Survey
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get any existing data
- check accuracy and audit
- identify critical areas
- carry out survey of river and banks where needed
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Soil data
- river banks and bottom
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meandering areas
- current
- likely future
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Geology
- identify likely problem areas
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Competing Projects
- road
- rail
- pipeline
- other
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Traffic records
- for each major road border crossing
- modal splits?
- passenger transport records?
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Freight transport records
- Multi modal splits (O-D)
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Port location information
- Kagitumba
- Bukoba
- other.....
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Cost data
- historical construction costs
- fuel cost data
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Financial data
- interest rates
- GDP figures etc
- exchange rates
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Environmental data
- for scoping study
- habitat
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Demographic data for social study
- existing records
- what will need to be gathere
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Donor activity
- fact finding workshop will facilitate this
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Organisation activity
- NGOs
- Govt of Rwanda
- Govt of Uganda
- Govt of Tanzania
- UN organisations
- NELSAP / NBI
- Kagera Basin TWRM
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River Information Systems
- on other major IWT facilities
- existing GIS - regional, country, district, sector