Nalubaale and Kiira hydropower plant rehabilitation project Uganda has currently 1235MW of total installed generation capacity of mainly renewable energy. Hydropower accounts for 90% and it is concentrated on the Nile River where several hydropower plants operate in a cascade scheme. As the Nalubaale-Kiira hydropower plant (NKHPP) is located at the outlet of the Lake Victoria and at the peak of the hydropower cascade it is a crucial infrastructure for controlling the water level on the Victoria Lake and water discharges on the Nile River what affects 290 million people in the Nile Basin. NKHPP 380MW of renewable energy accounts for 30% of the installed capacity in Uganda. It also provides the cheapest electricity to the Ugandan grid network (USD cents 1.2 per kWh) what contributes to contain the cost of electricity and increase affordability to it. However, NKHPP is almost 70 years old and its &nbsp;generation units have reached their lifespam what increases the risk of failure and therefore forced outages and black-outs affecting the grid stability and the country productive economy.In this context, the specific objectives of the action are twofold: 1) to guarantee provision of green, affordable and reliable renewable energy by refurbishing of NKHPP turbines and equipment and carrying out ancillary civil works, and; 2) to ensure economic/social infrastructure and livelihoods protection on the Nile River Basin by improving NKHPP resilience against climate change. &nbsp;This should contribute to the general objective of securing and extend access to clean energy (SDG7) beyond the actual 19% access rate to the grid to 60% by 2030 as per the Uganda National Development Plan III &nbsp;and to support further sustainable industrialisation (SDG9) while making more resilient the country and the Nile Basin against climate change impact (SDG13)