Octopus closures to sustainable marine resource management planning, promoting equitable governance of tenure (including women and youth) in small-scale fishing communities in Zanzibar and in Tanzanian Coast through extending successful pilot initiatives.

PROGRESS:
 

10 %

ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Registration of project with Registrar of NGOs

• Situational analysis: scoping and mapping exercise in 12 villages of mainland Tanzania

• Meetings and presentations of project to Director of Fisheries of mainland Tanzania in October and to Ag Director of Fisheries of Zanzibar in November 

• E-workshop on EU Financial procedures with EUD of Dar-Es-Salaam

• Finalizing recruitment of project staffs to be on board in January 2021

• Visits to Pemba and Unguja districts of Zanzibar for preparation of scoping and mapping exercise in January 2021

IMPLEMENTER:

Mwambao Coastal Community Network Tanzania   

EXPECTED OUTPUTS:

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• Harmonised, enhanced and more effective local, national and bilateral fisheries co-management regimes established.

• Databases and data sharing protocols for storage and analysis established.

• A cost-effective programme for long-term ecological monitoring of fish stocks established.

• Capacity building needs assessment conducted and plan for capacity building of stakeholders developed.

• Basin-wide co-management regime for the transboundary fisheries enacted.

• Bilaterally agreed and five-year costed implementation plan for the IFMP of the two basins.

ACTIVITIES:

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• Establish bilateral cooperation for sustainable management of the two basins, BASRB and ROLT.

• Support the establishment and implementation of fisheries co-management system.

• Capacity building of fisheries stakeholders.

• Socio-economic assessment and support to gender inclusivity and ITK integration.

• Monitoring and evaluation of planned activities.

• Support to cross-border fisheries management for the respective basins.

• Facilitate the interoperability of systems and exchange of data across the two basins.

• Support improvements and harmonisation of fisheries assessment, data collection and data management.

• Support to climate change smart fisheries.

• Support capacity building for bilaterally harmonised enforcement, compliance and prosecution procedures in the fisheries sector.