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Final regional report on lessons learnt on the institutional framework
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
From the 1960s, the Lake Victoria environment and its natural resources have come under severe stress as a result of multiple activities arising from human population in the basin which have resulted in serious environmental ...
Lessons learnt: water hyacinyh control component
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
The Water Hyacinth Control Component (WHCC) is one of the 10 components of LVEMP. The overrall goal of the components‟ focus is to control water hyacinth by reducing the weed to a manageable level. The approach chosen was ...
Lessons learned on micro-projects
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
As part of the effort to take stock of its work in implementing micro projects, consider future direction and envisage action to be undertaken, LVEMP engaged a National Consultant from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ...
Age validation of a tropical cyprinid, Rastrineobola argentea (Pellegrin 1904) by immersin in tetracycline hydrochloride and use phi prime
(LVFO, 2000)
To verify that increments observed in the otoliths of R. argentea were deposited daily, fish
were immersed in tetracycline hydrochloride (TC) of 100 - 600 mg V between 2-24 hours.
TC was found to be incorporated within ...
The Vision and Strategy Framework for Management and Development of Lake Victoria Basin
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2003)
Lake Victoria is the world’s second largest fresh-water lake and the largest in Africa,
with a surface area of 68,800 km2. The Lake basin area covers 193,000 km2 with
Tanzania occupying 44 per pent, Kenya 22 per pent, ...
Community Participation Assessment Report Final Draft
(Department of Community Health University of Nairobi, 2005)
The purpose of the assessment was to review community involvement, performance and
generate a lessons’ learnt report that would contribute to decision-support mechanisms and
inform future interventions. The assessment ...
Preliminary investigation into the haematology of adult protopterus annectens (Owen) in Nigeria. (Short communication)
(LVFO, 2000)
HaematologicaI values other than mean cell haemoglobin concentration, were consistently higher in the male Protopterus annectens(O) than the female. These all showed significant linear correlation with weight at 5% level ...
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN FOREST RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN MT. ELGON FOREST AND ITS ENVIRONS
(2002)
Community participation is now globally recognised as an effective strategy in the management of forest resources (IUCN, 1992; WRI, 1996). However, in developing countries and particularly Africa, forest management policies ...
Water Quality & Human Health around Lake Victoria.
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)
Much has been achieved during LVEMP1 in terms of the countries’ understanding of the Lake
Victoria ecosystem, but still there is a limited knowledge of the water quality in various parts
(particularly bays) of the Lake ...
Aquatic weed problem in Lake Jipe
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2002)
Lake Jipe is in Mwanga District, Kilimanjaro Region, and lies on the border with Kenya. A stream drains from the lake southward through a wetland and empties its waters in Nyumba ya Mungu dam some kilometers downstream.
The ...