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Policy and legal framework
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Stakeholder participation
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Enforcement
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Investment and funding
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Human and technical capacity building
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Research, monitoring, awareness and information exchange They further showed the successes and failures on each area and concluded that:
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The coordination on environment and natural resources is still weak
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The management of coastal activities is still sectoral
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Many stakeholders e.g. private sectors, local community, NGOs etc. have not been taken aboard in ICM process
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There are still some problems related to environmental degradation and pollution, unplanned development and poverty leading to over-exploitation of coastal resources
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There have been achievement in community-based ICM activities spearheaded by local programmes
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There has been increase in human capacity on ICM Participants made their contributions and comments on the report draft, which would be
incorporated in the final report.
4.0 UPDATE ON TCMP ACTIVITIES
Mr. Daffa and secretariats of the TCMP working groups made a series of presentations focusing on the TCMP current activities, especially in areas where TCMP needed input
from the retreat participants.
4.1 TCMP Overview and Policy status
Mr. Daffa led participants through the policy development process from the issue identification, development of policy elements to the policy drafting. He informed the
meeting that the policy draft has been submitted to the Cabinet Secretariat for review and adoption.
4.2 Core Working Group CWG
In presenting the activities of the Core Working Group in the past six months, Mr. Stephen Nkondokaya informed the retreat meeting that the group concentrated on the task
of supporting local planning for and management of coastal resources.
Summary of the CWG activities
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During the period of six months the CWG embarked on two major activities: -
Policy adoption process; -
Support district level planning.
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Policy adoption process
The CWG continued to provide background support through regular briefing on the policy development process and the need for ICM policy to executives of their respective
sectors.
Supporting district level planning
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Reorganised the CWG – and reoriented to focus on support of ICM planning at local level and expanded the group.
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Received input from the Local Government Reform Programme.
Objectives of the LGRP include
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District council to have institutional structures which confirm with their needs;
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To empower grassroots in the planning process;
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To enhance councils revenue sources and grant financing from the central government;
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To build capacity for council’s personnel in order to facilitate effective resource management
Development of guidelines for the preparation of district ICM action plan
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Developing the table contents and further annotation to the current draft 4 guidelines.
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Harvest the experience and lessons learned from the Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Programme in local action planning
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Assessment to determine two pilot districts to which the guidelines will be tested
Selection criteria to select the two districts
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Willingness of the district
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Replicability
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Critical issuespressure
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Enabling conditions
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Chances of success
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Proven performance
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Districts under the first phase of LGRP
The way forward
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Policy adoption -
The CWG will continue support the policy adoption process through further briefing as it may be necessary;
- In event of final adoption, the CWG will undertake presentation of the adopted
policy to key constituencies; -
Local Action Planning -
CWG to continue refining the draft guidelines until finalised; -
Topical study on sustainable financing on the implementation of the plans; -
Topical study to determine linkages of the plan to existing legal frameworks; -
Assist pilot districts in the preparation of local ICM action plans.
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4.3 Science and Technical Working Group STWG
