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Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership (TCMP)

The livelihoods of households in fishing villages such as this one in Tanzania are dependent on healthy fisheries, underscoring the need for integrated coastal management.

TCMP is a partnership of donor interests in collaboration with the National Environment Management Council (NEMC) of the Government of Tanzania. USAID helped to establish the partnership in the late 1990s and with subsequent investments during the past five years. The TCMP goal is to establish a foundation for effective coastal governance in Tanzania.

From 1998 to 2003, the USAID-funded activities of TCMP worked to achieve the following goals:

• Develop a National Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) Strategy to be applied to coastal management at both the national and local levels;
• Demonstrate cross-sector mechanisms for addressing emerging coastal economic opportunities;
• Build human and institutional capacity while creating enabling conditions for ICM;
• Support ICM planning and activities, and provide mechanisms to balance national and local interests;
• Promote integrated and sustainable approaches to the development of major economic uses of the coast to optimize benefits and minimize negative impacts (e.g., mariculture);
• Develop and use an effective coastal ecosystem research, monitoring, and assessment system to allow already available - as well as new - scientific and technical information to inform ICM decisions; and
• Increase institutional effectiveness for coastal management through improved human and institutional capacity.

Project partners in the Tanzania Coastal Management Partnership (TCMP) produced the following results:

• The National Integrated Coastal Environment Management Strategy (NICEMS) was approved by the Tanzanian government. The process used to write the NICEMS strategy was central to creating a context within which approval was possible - a process that involved the participation of constituencies among government agencies and coastal districts and broad support for the national goals and implementation.
• Built relationships and promoted collaborative behavior between national government agencies, district governments and private interests. In order to create this success, it was necessary to take great care from the very start of the TCMP to balance local and national interests.
• Through training, mentoring and learning-by-doing, the working group members have learned to interact across disciplines and hierarchies, thereby improving the relationships between various constituencies.

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