- Commission de l`Océan Indien

Regional Programme for the
Sustainable Management of the
Coastal Zones of the Indian Ocean
Countries
No. 10:
October - December 2009
Editorial
At the end of 2009 and after 3½ years from its inception,
the programme is now 18 months from completion. We
have recently funded the start-up of almost all the 34
projects under the 2nd Call for Proposals (CFP2).
CFP1 shows that at least 30 % of projects faced delays at
the beginning.
During the programme, 63 projects for Non-State Actors
and 10 Marine Protected Areas would have been funded.
Altogether, these projects would have received from
ReCoMaP about 6 millions Euros as direct funding plus
direct technical support.
Exchange of CFP2 contracts between H. AboubacarTayffa and manager of ENVIROCARE in Tanzania
(Photo: H. Aboubacar-Tayffa).
Signing ceremony of CFP2 contract at M‟bachilé Village in
Comoros (Photo: H. Aboubacar-Tayffa).
Based on fruitful partnerships, we provide financial
monitoring as well as administrative and technical
support to these projects.
In general, such monitoring is carried out quarterly in
each country by ReCoMaP ICZM Officer and a part-time
accountant.
Several points are worth mentioning concerning the
capacity building of our partners through, for instance,
training in management and set up of accounting tools,
support to planning and reporting of activities.
ReCoMaP team and our partners are well aware of this
issue and mobilisation is encouraged to recruit staff,
finalise tenders dossiers and start activities.
Additionally, the school contest has ended with
implementation in Tanzania. We are already working on
2 didactic booklets of the winning submissions, one for
primary schools and the other for secondary schools.
Distribution of the booklets will be discussed with the
relevant Education Authorities of each participating
country.
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Table of Contents
P2 : Youth Community Environment Wardens Programme in Lamu
Island, Kenya
Close monitoring also allows us to determine, with the
project teams, their needs for technical assistance. This is
done through short thematic missions by national or
regional experts, supporting one or several projects.
P2 : CFP2 Granted Projects
This support involves engineers in case of works to
prevent erosion, but also in providing regular technical
supports on a long term basis to strengthen, for
example, land reclamation in Comoros, and fish and
shrimp aquaculture by families in Kenya and Tanzania.
P4 : Fasten your seat belts for mariculture takeoff in Mtwara
The challenge for the 34 CFP2 projects is to be
completed within 18 months. Our experience from the
P7 : Sale of sea cucumbers in Tuléar, Madagascar
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P3 : Seychelles Maritime Training Centre adopts mangrove
P3 : The school contest award ceremony in Kenya
P5 - P6 : Community response to sanitation and hygiene promotion in Lindi coastal zone
P6 : Contribution to food security through the support of aquaculture development in Tanzania
P8 : Photo Gallery
Administrations and ICZM Committees.
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Finally, an additional challenge waits to be taken up the
next 18 months: capitalisation and sustainability of
ReCoMaP‟s activities after the programme. It definitely
involves the Non-State Actors as well as ICZM
Michel de San
Regional Coordinator and Team Leader
ReCoMaP
Youth Community Environment Wardens Programme
(YCEW) in Lamu Island, Kenya
Lamu Safi Group was one of the fortunate recipients in
the 1st round of ReCoMAP funding, for their project titled “Integrated Waste Management Facilities on Lamu
Island”.
Kenya. Sensitisation measures and income generating activities are particularly targeting women and the youth.
The 18 month project aims to tackle the problem of
solid waste management on the Island from three angles:
Through improving waste management infrastructure to make it easier for the community to dispose of their waste properly;
Through an extensive community sensitisation
programme on waste management;
Through support for the implementation of waste
related income generating activities by the community.
Participants to the YCEW training (Photo: Lamu Safi Group).
One of the innovative sensitisation measures adopted by
this project was the recent „Youth Community Environment
Wardens Programme‟.
The YCEW training (Photo: Lamu Safi Group).
The project, which is continuing well, has been implemented by Lamu Safi Group, in conjunction with Shela
Environmental Residents Group (SERG) and public bodies such as the County Council, District Public Health
Office, District Youth Office and National Museums of
CFP2 Granted Projects
The 34 CFP2 projects are allocated as follows:
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Country
No. of
Projects
Total of
grants (€)
Comoros
Kenya
Madagascar
Mauritius/Rodrigues
Seychelles
Tanzania/Zanzibar
Regional Projects
Total
8
4
6
4
4
6
2
34
749,161
329,064
490,392
375,319
332,315
525,339
200,000
3,001,590
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22 active members of Youth Groups were identified by
Lamu Safi Group in conjunction with the District Youth
Office. They attended a one day workshop held by Lamu
Safi Group with the assistance of the District Public Health
Office, where they were trained as Environment Wardens,
on important topics such as the importance of keeping the
Environment clean (through good waste management practices), using clean water, and malaria prevention, all of
which are inter-linked.
They were then designated zones of the Island to cover,
with 16 wardens covering Lamu Town, and 2 acting as supervisors, 2 wardens in the village of Shela and two for the
villages of Matandoni and Kipungani combined. They each
received a daily allowance, for a period of 13 days, to go
house to house to speak to the community, particularly the
women of the household, to sensitise them on these issues. The supervisors were able to follow up and cross
check, to ensure the work was done. At the end of each
day, each warden filled in a feedback form detailing the
number of houses approached/contacted each day in their
area and any issues raised.
The project was considered a success, with most households covered and a positive response from the community. The youth wardens were able to act as peer educators
for this important issue. This is a project that could be
duplicated fairly easily elsewhere. For more details, please
contact Lamu Safi Group at lamusafigroup@yahoo.com
Julie Deakin
Environmental Projects Manager
Lamu Safi Group
Seychelles Maritime Training Centre adopts mangrove
In a small ceremony assisted by the students and staff of the
Maritime Training Centre held on 28th August, the Environment
Club of the Maritime Training Centre raised the sign of adoption of the mangrove area behind their school. This follows
several mangrove clean ups that the school have organised
during the course of the year with financial support from the
ReCoMaP Communication, Awareness and Visibility Action Plan
for the Seychelles. The funds received was put to great use in
purchasing the required safety and cleaning materials to ensure continuous cleaning of the area which is often littered by
people making use of the site. The mangrove area behind the
school forms part of the large mangrove habitat which has
developed along the length of the Mahe East Coast after extensive land reclamation. The mangrove habitat is home to a wide
variety of estuarine fauna including the edible mangrove crab
(Scylla serrata) and moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) whose
number appears to be on the increase of late.
MTC students erecting the mangrove adoption board
(Photo: J. Bijoux).
Jude Bijoux
ReCoMaP ICZM Officer, Seychelles
The School Contest Award
Ceremony in Kenya
The school contest award ceremony in Kenya was held
in Mombasa at the Sai-Rock Hotel on 13 November. It
was attended by the winning students and their families. The event was graced by the Provincial Quality Assurance and Standards Officer in the Ministry of Education and Provincial Director of Environment (NEMA). The
ReCoMaP Team consisted of Yves Reynaud (Monitoring
and Information Specialist) and Patrick Kimani (ICZM
Officer).
The award ceremony marked the end of an intense exercise that involved transportation of contest entry materials targeting the 2,100 schools, awareness campaigns through the media and 10 sessions for teachers
reaching over 400 teachers in 10 districts and a jury
sitting that evaluated the 4,399 entries received.
The winners could not hide their joy on receiving the
rewards for their hard work. Perhaps the happiest one
was Abdulhakim Liban who won first prize in the drawing category. The eight year
old took home the first prize
of a computer and marine
informational books, dictionaries and encyclopaedia for
his school. The second prize
winners won a digital camera
with an underwater casing
and books and dictionaries
for their school, while the
third winners bagged a digital
camera and books for their
school.
The winning entries depicted
the current problems facing
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PDE-NEMA presenting a prize (Photo: P. Kimani).
Kenya‟s coastal zone and at the same time outlining
pupils and students thoughts about possible remedies.
They described in drawings, posters and essays how
they would like to see the coastal environment managed. Both guests of honour from the Ministry of Education and NEMA described the results of the contest as
an indictment on everybody and it is especially relevant
to the authorities concerned with various sectors of
coastal management. The
main message of the evening
from guests present was that:
School contest winners for Kenya (Photo: P. Kimani).
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If the young could prescribe
what should be done to
achieve sound coastal management, then adults must
be challenged to do more in
terms of coastal management.
Patrick KIMANI
ReCoMaP ICZM Officer, Kenya
Fasten your Seat Belts for Mariculture Takeoff in Mtwara
In 2007, I visited Mtwara District with the aim of taking a
mariculture inventory and found only a few badly made
ponds and frustrated farmers. I made a promise to a few
of the better ones that I will try to get some help. In October, 2008, our proposal for “Sustainable Milkfish Farming
in Mtwara, Tanga and Pemba” was honoured by ReCoMaP.
We then planned the best strategy to reach as many of the
farmers as possible. Four main strategies are being used:
1. Development of a demonstration pond on milkfish
farming;
2. Development and use of a training manual written in a
simple local language that the farmers can use;
3. Training of a core group of extension officers from
among the farmers, fisheries officers, identified partners and other interested stakeholders in all stages of
milkfish farming;
4. Creating competition from among the farmers in each
district and between districts by giving additional assistance (technological or/and monetary) to any individuals who can develop their own farms equivalent to
the model.
Fig. 1 The demonstration milkfish pond officially launched by
Mtwara District Commissioner, Hon. Mr. Erasto Mbwilo, 28th October, 2009 (Photo: A. Mmochi).
Fig. 2 (left & bottom) Official launching of the demonstration milkfish pond with a
side event of launching a book “ Guide to milkfish farming” published by WIOMSA
(Photo: A. Mmochi).
Mtwara has been the first to finish the model 1 ha farm and already
stocked it with 7500 fingerlings out of the minimum 10,000. Pemba is
completing the model farm now but has already 2 ha equivalents of the
model while Tanga is still struggling with the model.
In May 2009, attracted by the model farm WWF invited us to do a 10 day
training of the farmers from Mnazi Bay and Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park
(MBREMP). We officially launched the model pond in October 2009 (Fig. 1) a
ceremony that was officiated by the Mtwara District Councellor and attended by numerous stakeholders including WWF, MBREMP, Bankers and
Media among others (Fig. 2).
The launching was coloured by the invitees enjoying a milkfish lunch, with
milkfish harvested by one of our new recruits (Fig. 3). All this effort has
been fruitful and Mtwara is ready for a flying start. The acreage constructed
ponds for milkfish farming has changed from 5.5 ha in January, 2009 to
17. 7 ha in October, at the time of launching.
“WE CAN DO IT IF EVERY ONE PLAYS HIS PART”
This is a leap forward. It is a blessing but also a challenge.
To cope with this we urgently need to:
1.
Establish baselines in the environmental as well as socio
-economic status of the farmers
2.
Develop a map showing the areas in the different mangrove estuaries where mariculture ponds can be established.
3.
Discuss with the village and district governments to establish and implement permit procedures for environmentally sustainable pond mariculture development.
Fig. 3 Milkfish harvested by one of the recruited farmer/extension
Aviti Mmochi officer, Mr. Yahya of Ndumbwe, Mtwara that were cooked and
Institute of Marine Sciences, eaten on site as well as sold to all (Photo: A. Mmochi).
University of Dar es Salaam
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Community response to sanitation and hygiene promotion in
Lindi coastal zone
Eight months after implementation of the CFP1 project
by COBIHESA which focuses on community sensitisation
and dissemination of best practices information on sanitation, hygiene, and environmental health issues in Lindi
town council and Kilwa district, significant responses by
targeted communities have been noted.
In Kilwa district, so far 4 community environmental
groups have been established with the support of 80
community facilitators who attended 4 days training
workshop on environmental health promotion. The
groups are Mwangaza and Mwambao from Kilwa Kivinje;
Nangurukuru environment group from Nangurukuru
transit centre; Somanga women group and Mshikamano
from Tingi. The group members conducted community
specific activities including mobilization against coastal
and marine environmental pollution, particularly
through open defecation, and inappropriate waste disposal. The groups also organised community cleaning
days. COBIHESA, through ReCoMaP support has provided basic tools including wheel barrows, heavy duty
hand gloves, heavy brooms, racks, rubber gumboots,
and information materials. One of the most significant
achievements of the Mwangaza and Mwambao groups is
the removal of the solid waste dump formerly located at
the waterfront at Kilwa Kivinje, and cleaning of the surrounding area. The dump site by the ocean had been a
great source of pollution to the surrounding coastal and
marine environment.
working at the fish market practised open defecation
behind the anchored fishing vessels and coral reefs.
Members of the Ufukweni sanitation committee in front of the
rehabilitated fish market toilet with Mr. Owen Linje Assistant
Project Officer, COBIHESA (first left) and Mr. B. Kalangahe National ICZM Officer (second right). (Photo: COBIHESA).
An important component of the project is the model
school clubs. After sensitisation, three model school
clubs were established by the teachers and students in
Raha Leo, Msinjahili and Likota primary schools in Lindi
town. Initial training of 2 teachers from each school and
a follow up one day training workshop was conducted
for the school club members in each school. After the
training, the school clubs have continued on independently and are currently a key element of the school
health and environment programme. Some of the key
issues being addressed by the students include peer and
community mobilization against coastal and marine environment pollution, and promotion of safe sanitation
and hygiene practices at school, including hand washing
with soap.
Ms Asha Namwerasoni, an outstanding voluntary community
facilitator working under a CFP1 project receives a bicycle
from Mr. Baraka Kalangahe, National ICZM Officer. (Photo:
COBIHESA).
In Lindi town, artisan fishers and food vendors at Ufukweni – the leading fish market in Lindi town, mobilized
funds to rehabilitate the market toilet after a series of
sensitisation meetings by project staff. With further support from COBIHESA, through the CFP1 grant, the toilet
which had been in disuse for over 10 years was rehabilitated. A committee has been formed to manage the facility on a user–fee basis. At last, the fish sellers, food
vendors and their clients –averaging at about 500 per
day have a safe sanitation facility, with both male and
female utilities and a bathroom. Previously, most people
Members of the school club at Raha Leo primary school practicing
a role play. (Photo: COBIHESA).
A baseline study conducted in December 2008 towards
the CFP 1 project found safe latrine coverage in the project area ranging from 0% in the seasonal fish landing
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camps to 40-60 % in the more established coastal settlements. The project which is being implemented in partnership with Lindi town council and Kilwa district council employs multiple strategies, including radio, information and educational materials, sensitisation activities
involving 80 trained community level facilitators, and
demonstration facilities.
David Katusabe
Programme Officer, COBIHESA
Owen Linje
Assistant Project Officer, MUMUP/CFP1
Contribution to food security through the support of
aquaculture development in Tanzania
Aquaculture is a flourishing industry in Tanzania; fishing
represents more than 10 % of the country‟s exports and
contributes 2.7 % to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The government has therefore committed itself to developing aquaculture in order to strengthen the food security of the country.
The total amount granted to all 5 projects is € 467 455.
The direct beneficiaries are 20 groups made up of more
than 300 persons. This excludes the hundreds of thousands of indirect beneficiaries, that is, the resellers, the
carriers, restaurant owners and final consumers. Thanks
to this support from ReCoMaP, 70 farm ponds will be
constructed or developed in various coastal districts of
Tanzania. These ponds will allow the production of
about 4 tons of fish and shrimp for each harvest. They
will generate more than 6 million Tanzanian shillings to
the coastal populations that desperately need them.
When compared to the national production, it might appear negligible, just like a drop in the ocean. However, it
should be noted that populations in these regions, that
is, in Mtwara, Lindi, Tanga and Pemba, are among the
poorest of Tanzania. The funds in question represent a
significant boon to enhance living conditions. The country‟s potentialities and mainly the motivation and commitment of the beneficiaries in implementing their respective projects show that the industry will develop
substantially in Tanzania.
Fish ponds with two hen farms in the background
(Photo: B. Kalangahe).
ReCoMaP funded 15 projects in Tanzania through its
Call for Proposals (CFPs), of which 5 projects are entirely
or partially involved with fish and shrimp farming. The
projects concerned are listed below:

Sustainable milkfish farming: cost-effective methods
to increase food supply, incomes and employment in
Mtwara, Lindi, Tanga and Pemba coastal communities. Implemented by WIOMSA.

Reducing coastal erosion through integrated coastal
forest resources management at Kisarawé. Implemented by AHEEDT.

Development of low cost, environmentally friendly
energy to improve efficiency in current mariculture
systems in selected villages in Tanzania. Implemented by WIOMSA.

Building sustainability for small-scale milkfish pond
culture and mud crab fattening enterprises in Rufiji,
Mafia and Kilwa Districts, Tanzania. Managed by
WWF Tanzania.

The initial steps toward the establishment of a business development service in support of a Small
Farmer Mariculture network in Tanzania. Managed
by PRAWNTO organisation.
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Construction of fish ponds, a CFP1 project implemented by
WIOMSA in Tanzania (Photo: H. Aboubacar-Tayffa).
We are confident that investments through the CFPs –
infrastructures, furniture and training – will have the
expected effects. In the sense that they will have a ripple
effect on other groups and zones not covered by ReCoMaP. Thus, we would have contributed modestly but
concretely to the noble mission of promoting food security and reducing poverty among vulnerable communities living on the country‟s coastline. These correspond
well with the objectives of ReCoMaP.
Hassanali ABOUBACAR-TAYFFA
Local Development and Call for Proposals Expert
ReCoMaP
Sale of sea cucumbers in Tuléar, Madagascar
It is already one year since the projects of Trans-Mad’
Développement (TMD) and Blue Ventures (BV) began to
develop the holothurian aquaculture of village-based micro-farms. Until now, the TMD team has followed 17
teams of farmers (in average 7 persons per team) from 3
coastal villages of the South West of Madagascar. Each
team possessed a sea pen of 900 m2 which they stocked
with juveniles bought on credit from Madagascar Holothuries SA (MHSA), a society exploiting since two years
an intellectual patent on the artificial reproduction of
Holothuria scabra. After consultation, selection and
training by the project team, the first deliveries took
place during April to June of this year.
reared during only 4½ months. Sarodrano farmers followed with a sale of 213 sea cucumbers (average weight
of 363 g) the 6th of November after 7 months of rearing.
However, farmers from Fiherenamasay have still not sold
their harvest taking into account the lower growth rates
experienced in this site. These results are extremely encouraging for they show that on the best sites, the
growth delays which we had estimated to 10 – 12
months can in fact be reduced to half, even during the
cold season where growth is supposed to slow down.
It should be noted that these two sales are just one step
towards profitability for both the farmers and MHSA, the
commercial partner. In fact, the survival rate during the
first culture was until now insufficient (slightly greater
than 35%) and the quantities harvested do not reach
those expected. Findings show that holothurians are very
vulnerable to crabs and especially during their first
months inside the sea pen where the majority of losses
occurred. These problems led us to improve the microfarms by adding to each sea pen crab traps and a pen of
25 m2 covered with a net to protect the juveniles during
their first weeks of acclimatization. The monitoring of
the new batch of juveniles that were recently delivered
during September and October at Andrevo and
Sarodrano are very encouraging because the survival
rates are now beyond 75 %. This points us to believe
promising economic prospects for the next oncoming
harvests.
A farmer (Photo: Trans-Mad‟ Développement).
Today, we are glad to announce the first tangible results
obtained from the sale of the first 340 sea cucumbers
harvested from farms supported by TMD. Although the
numbers remain weak due to losses caused by crab predation, these first sales allow us to issue a report which
is encouraging at various levels.
Cultivation of holothurians (sea cucumbers) (Photo: Trans-Mad‟
Développement).
Sale of sea cucumbers (Photo: Trans-Mad‟ Développement)
Surprisingly, although the Andrevo farmers received their
deliveries the last, they were the first to be able to sell on
18 October their first batch of 128 sea cucumbers that
have reached an average weight of 362 g after being
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Although the income they generated is symbolical (from
7 to 66 Euros per team), these first harvests is already an
important step for the overall actors. The farmers have
never expressed such motivation for the monitoring carried out by the project team but also in terms of remobilisation to fulfil the essential aquacultural tasks: hunting
and trapping of crabs, guardianship … On its side, MHSA
make use of this first harvest to refine its value-added
processes (drying, freezing …) and to test expanding
international markets by sending samples to interested
buyers. These selling trials will provide a better visibility
in elaborating a coherent pricing policy on the medium
term.
Benjamin PASCAL
Project Coordinator for DéFi “Zanga”
Trans-Mad’ Développement
Photo Gallery
Souvenir picture with the students and Director of the
MTC & ICZM Officer (Photo: J. Bijoux).
Students from the awareness sessions in Mohéli, Comoros
(Photo: P. Narayanen).
For more info, please check our website: http://www.recomap-io.org
Glass recycling in Seychelles, a CFP2 project by „Atleye pour
Apran Nouvo Artizana‟ (APANA) (Photo: H. Aboubacar-Tayffa).
Experimental crab ponds by the KWETU project at Majaoni,
Kenya (Photo: P. Kimani).
Commercial size of
Holothuria scabra
(commonly known
as sea cucumber)
(Photo: M. de San).
Sea pens for fattening sea cucumbers at Tuléar, Madagascar
(Photo: M. de San).
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