The SUCCESS Program Results Framework guides our planning and program management. It consists of the Program Goal, Intermediate Results IRs, and indicators with associated
performance targets which span the four major program elements of SUCCESS. The SUCCESS Results Framework mirrors the USAID Results Framework. Activities carried out through the
SUCCESS Program will feed into the overall USAID Results Framework, and will track selected USAID indicators. The complete Results Framework, with indicators and associate performance
targets and results to date are presented in the Performance Monitoring Plan PMP Report, Annex A.
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III. Year
3 Activities
A.
On-The-Ground Results: Year 3 Budget: 406,823
In Tanzania Scale of intervention: District
level Lead Implementing Organization: WIOMSA
Other Partnering Organizations: Institute of Marine Science, University of Dar es Salaam, TCMP, UHH
Activity Coordinator: Aviti Mmochi
US Liaison: Brian Crawford
Background
The need to better manage Tanzania’s coastal ecosystems and conserve marine biodiversity is urgent. The nation’s 1,424 kilometers of coastline include important bio-diverse assets such as
estuaries, watersheds, mangrove forests, beaches, coral reefs and seagrass beds and rare species of wildlife—all of which are threatened. Pressures include increasing populations, widespread
poverty, poorly planned economic development, under-resourced government institutions, and weak implementation of existing policies and laws. Within this already-challenging context, it
becomes increasingly difficult to improve coastal resources management and to improve the quality of life for coastal people when growing numbers of Tanzania’s coastal population are
HIV positive and when a lack of gender equity permeates coastal resource-based enterprises. Yet against this backdrop, Tanzania has made substantial progress in developing the enabling
conditions for sustainable management and conservation of its coastal resources. One of the more significant milestones in Tanzania was approval of the National Integrated
Coastal Environment Management Strategy ICEMS, adopted in 2002 by the Tanzania cabinet. There have been a number of supporting policies and strategies developed in the last several
years as well. This includes best practice guidelines for mariculture, tourism, environmental monitoring and district action planning, and the seaweed development strategic plan. These
policies help set the stage for sustainable economic development, which can contribute to the government’s objectives on poverty alleviation while ensuring environmentally sustainable
development. The national ICEMS and related policies and guidelines provide an overarching framework for
implementation on the ground, and this process has begun. District action plans are being implemented—with support of the National Environmental Management Council NEMC and
related national agencies—in Pangani, Bagamoyo and Mkuranga. District ICM committees have been formed to coordinate action plan implementation. In these districts, most of the enabling
conditions necessary to achieve rapid progress on second and third order outcomes changes in behaviors, social, economic and environmental improvements are present. Implementation
emphasizes activities such as collaborative fisheries management in addition to enterprise development opportunities linked to the coast’s rich cultural heritage and natural resources. This
includes development of small-scale enterprises in tourism and mariculture, among others.
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The challenge now is how to harvest these investments and move from policy and planning to much-needed execution, while connecting the national governance framework to local actions.
Continued and strong support for Tanzania’s efforts in coastal management has come from the United States Agency for International Development USAID. This includes the agency’s
support for development of the ICEMS, which calls for “implementing the national environment policy and other policies in conserving, protecting and developing Tanzania’s coast for use by
present and future generations
”. Since 1997, the Coastal Resources Center CRC at the University of Rhode Island URI, has partnered with USAID and Tanzania’s National
Environment Management Council NEMC to achieve a long-term goal to establish a sustainable ICM program in Tanzania—one that makes ICM the business of national level
government and uses decentralized mechanisms at the district and local levels. These activities have been implemented through the Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership TCMP, an
institutional arrangement created by CRCURI, USAID and NEMC and in 1997. CRC has also worked with WIOMSA previously on regional training programs in ICM funded through
USAIDREDSO. CRC has also worked with other donors including the World Bank and private foundations—in mainland Tanzania as well as in Zanzibar—on a number of coastal resources
management initiatives. CRC’s work continues to be supported by USAID with a new five-year cooperative agreement signed in September 2005. CRC was also awarded USAID Washington
funding for a two-year, cross-sectoral program integrating HIVAIDS, gender, and population dimensions into ICM district-level initiatives in Tanzania. This is called the PEACE Project.
These two projects, along with small, complementary strategic interventions from SUCCESS, are helping to sustain CRC’s long-term efforts in Tanzania to ensure that a national coastal
management program is a permanent feature of the governance landscape in Tanzania. Currently, there are a number of other planned and on-going ICM initiatives along the mainland
Tanzania coast that complement and support the implementation of the National ICEM Strategy. These initiatives include: Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Program;
Kinondoni Integrated Coastal Area Management Project; Sustainable Environment Management Through Mariculture Activities SEMMA; Marine and Coastal Environment Management
Project MACEMP; Kinondoni Integrated Management Project; World Wildlife Fund WWF- Eastern African Marine Eco-region Program; Rufiji, Mafia, Kilwa Seascape Project RUMAKI;
and the Mangrove Management Project. The Marine Parks and Reserves Units MPRU with its existing Marine Reserves of Maziwi and Dar es Salaam and Marine Parks of Mafia Island and
Mnazi Bay and Ruvuma Estuary also contribute to the framework for marine and coastal resources management in Tanzania. In Zanzibar, the World Bank MACEMP program will also
be active and is now underway. It is essential that activities carried out by the SUCCESS Program are synergistic and
complementary to these project initiatives and recognize that the coastal management governance and donor assistance landscape is quite advanced in Tanzania in comparison to the
other SUCCESS field sites. In particular, SUCCESS is working in sites in Zanzibar and the mainland where there are overarching ICM policies in place and where local visioning and
planning has already been carried out. Therefore, the SUCCESS Program does not need to start with a process of building a nested system of ICM governance as one already exists, albeit weak.
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