National ICM Strategy: supporting MPAs in Tanzania

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National ICM Strategy supporting MPAs in
Tanzania
T. Bayer, J. Daffa and L. Nzali ITMEMS2, Manila,
Philippines
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The Need For a National ICM Framework in
TANZANIA

• Natural resources dependent economy
• Increased pressure on coastal resources
• Sectoral approach
• -Not providing adequate controls
• -Slowing necessary economic growth
• Emerging large scale economic activities
• -Mariculture, Coastal Tourism, Oil Gas
• Various ICM initiatives at local level

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VISION

• Coast with thriving coastal settlements where
  people rely on the coast and its abundant
  resources for their food and livelihood and are
  working to protect and sustain the resource base

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Strategic Activities

• Support environmental planning and integrated
  management of coastal resources and activities at
  the local level and provide mechanisms to
  harmonize national and local needs

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• ISSUES ADDRESSED
• Improvement of the environment, well-being and
  livelihood of all beneficiaries
• Supporting local initiatives and decision making
  process
• IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISM
• District /Local Integrated Coastal Management
  Action Plans

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Strategic Activities

• Promote integrated, sustainable and
  environmentally friendly approaches to the
  development of major economic uses of the coast
  resources to optimize benefits.

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• Ensure that coastal activities and opportunities
  are developed in a participatory, transparent
  fashion according to national and local needs and
  plans

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Strategic Activities

• Conserve and restore critical habitats and areas
  of high biodiversity while ensuring that coastal
  people continue to benefit from the sustainable
  use of the resources

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• ISSUES ADDRESSED
• Managing Geographical Areas of Concerns
• Environmental Planning
• Improvement of the well-being and livelihood
• Implementation Mechanisms
• In collaboration with existing frameworks
  identify and support MPAs, Wetlands, Cross border
  marine and coastal issues

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Strategic Activities

• Establish an integrated planning and management
  mechanisms for coastal areas of high economic
  interest and/or with substantial environmental
  vulnerability to natural hazards

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• ADDRESSED ISSUES
• Increased pressure on resources
• Resource use conflicts
• inadequate environmental management mechanisms
• Inadequate inter-sectoral coordination
• Implementation Mechanisms
• Special Area Management Plans (SAMPS)

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Benefits of a National ICM Strategy

• Alleviate poverty by sustaining the environmental
  resources that people depend on to generate
  income and provide food
• Direct development pressures to ensure economic
  growth for communities and the nation
• Conserve and restore critical habitats and areas
  of high bio-diversity
• Supports decentralization and community
  empowerment

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• THANK YOU!