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The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) mission is to protect the lands and waters upon which all life depends. In Tanzania, TNC is working with different stakeholders to achieve community development through sustainable and equal fisheries resources management.
The fisheries resources management in Tanzania has been entirely operated and implemented by the government for many years until in the late 1990s where Co- management began in Tanzania under the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) whereby community collaborate with the Government in managing fisheries resources through formation of a committee of fishers from each landing site, named Beach Management Units (BMUs) around the Mwanzo Gulf.
Despite the establishment of BMUs several years ago and as co-management partners to assist the government to combat illegal fishing practices which threat sustainability of fisheries resources there are still unsettled matters which are not documented in the co-management guideline which tend to weaken the sector including but not limited to the following:
Interested and technically vendors are encouraged to reach out to TNC to get the full request for proposal at e-mail: procurementJake@tnc,org.
The deadline to submit proposals is set on 05th February 2024 at 10:00 am EAT.
The fisheries resources management in Tanzania has been entirely operated and implemented by the government for many years until in the late 1990s where Co- management began in Tanzania under the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) whereby community collaborate with the Government in managing fisheries resources through formation of a committee of fishers from each landing site, named Beach Management Units (BMUs) around the Mwanzo Gulf.
Despite the establishment of BMUs several years ago and as co-management partners to assist the government to combat illegal fishing practices which threat sustainability of fisheries resources there are still unsettled matters which are not documented in the co-management guideline which tend to weaken the sector including but not limited to the following:
- Unclear alignment and flow of implementation of fisheries management between the two ministries (Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MLF) and President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government Tanzania (PO-RALG)).
- Unclear reporting system from the field point of view between officers from ministry of Livestock and Fisheries and PO-RALG
- Unclear roles, leadership, and limits of the MLF and PO-RALG fisheries officers on fisheries resources management.
- Unclear guidance on BMU/CCC support in prosecution of illegal fishers to court of justice.
- Unclear guidance on distribution of percentage of revenues collected by BMUs to their respective Districts.
- Unclear guidance on the role of BMU/CCC in protection, conservation of ornamental fish and how BMU/CCC benefit from their conservation.
- Unclear on how BMU/CCC benefit from ornamental and other fish they conserve and protect.
Interested and technically vendors are encouraged to reach out to TNC to get the full request for proposal at e-mail: procurementJake@tnc,org.
The deadline to submit proposals is set on 05th February 2024 at 10:00 am EAT.
