Browsing Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project Phase I (LVEMP I) by Title
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OBJECTIVES OF LVEMP AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2002)The LVEMP is a comprehensive environmental regional program which aims at rehabilitating Lake Victoria and its catchment for the benefit of the people who live in the catchment as well as the global community. The ... -
Overview of Lake Victoria frame survey 2000 - Uganda
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2002)This paper gives observations made on the frame survey that was carried out on the Uganda part of Lake Victoria in March 2000. The paper highlights the major changes affecting fishing, fishing gears and facilities in the ... -
An overview of the present status of Water Quality of Lake Victoria, Kenya: A limnological perspective
(Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, LVEMP Water Quality Component, 2008)Sampling for nutrients, Chrolophyll-a and total suspended solids was done in 9 in-lake stations in the Kenyan part of Lake Victoria between December 2000 and October 2001. In-situ measurements of temperature, dissolved ... -
Pilot study on catch assessment surveys by BMUS for sustainable management of Lake Victoria
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)The need to have a functional CAS system for Lake Victoria fisheries, to monitor changes and have reliable indices of relative abundance for the management of fisheries resources has been realised by all stakeholders ... -
Pollution loads into Lake Victoria from the Kenyan catchment
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2002)Lake Victoria has experienced eutrophication problems. This is attributable to pollution due to an expanding population, a rapidly developing technology, and increased industrial and food production. Pollution from ... -
Potential impacts of Kirinya wetland in treating secondary municipal effluent from Jinja stabilisation ponds
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)Kirinya West wetland is located on northern shores of Lake Victoria in Jinja- Uganda. The wetland receives secondary treated effluent from the stabilisation ponds owned and operated by National Water and Sewerage ... -
Potential of fungal pathogens for biological control of water hyacinth
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)A survey of fungal pathogens of water hyacinth were under taken in lakes Victoria and Kyoga and River Nile in Uganda and several potential isolates including Alternaria eichhorniae (Nag Raj and Ponnappa), Cercospora sp. ... -
The potential of mukene (Rastrineobola argentea) fishery in Lake Victoria with suggestions for its management
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Following the decline in catches of endemic fish species in Lake Victoria, Mukene, Rastrineobola argentea has become an important commercial fish species. The fishery spread first through Kenyan, and Tanzanian waters and ... -
Potential strategies to address fishers problems in Lake Victoria, Tanzania
(2005)Local fishing communities riparian to Lake Victoria in Tanzania have since time immemorial exploited and highly depended on the fisheries of the lake. However their living conditions have been deteriorating despite an ... -
Preparation of National / Regional Management Framework: Institutional Component for the Lake Victoria Basin Final National Report January 2007
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2007)Management.of Lake Basin depends on Institutions. Institutions administer the laws and establish the policies and rules and even incentives for management of the resources within the basin. They include traditional ... -
Preparation of National / Regional Management Framework: Institutional Component for the Lake Victoria Basin Final National Report January 2007-Tanzania
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2007)Management.of Lake Basin depends on Institutions. Institutions administer the laws and establish the policies and rules and even incentives for management of the resources within the basin. They include traditional ... -
Private Sector Development Strategy for the Lake Victoria Basin
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2007)Global processes of economic and political liberalisation in the early nineties have dramatically changed the perceptions on the role and contribution of the private sector in economic and social development. In the ... -
Regional Lessons Learnt Draft Final Report
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)Lake Victoria Basin is rich with current value placed at about US$ 12.4 billion and which could be developed further with good management intervention. There are many factors that are threatening rich biodiversity and ... -
Regional Status Report on Lake Victoria Frame Surveys For 2000, 2002 and 2004, Kenya, Tanzania And Uganda
(2005)Lake Victoria is very important to the economies of the East African Community Partner States. The fishery has undergone major transformations since fish catches increased following establishment of Nile perch (Lates ... -
Regional Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis Of The Lake Victoria Basin
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2007)The Regional Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (RTDA) covers the Lake Victoria Basin in the Republics of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. The analysis was conducted between June 2006 ... -
Report on Length, Weight and Sex Survey of Nile Perch (lates Niloticus) In Lake Victoria, Tanzania
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)This report presents the length-weight relationship parameters (a and b) for 559 Lates niloticus, size composition, sex, maturity stages, length at first maturity and food examined during February 2004 from four landing ... -
A report on the Impact of Fisheries on the Resources along the shores of Lake Victoria
(2002)The field study covered a huge area and has come up with a number of observations and several of these are linked. The results are summarized as follows: Indicators of consumption were identified and observations of ... -
A Report on the Implementation Status of Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda from 1st July 1997 – 30th June 2002 and Way Forward
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2002)The Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) is a multi-discipline and multi-sector comprehensive development programme that was designed to successfully introduce, through implementation, environmentally ... -
A review of estimation of rainfall and evaporation over Lake Victoria
(Directorate of Water Development, Water Resources Management Department, P.O. Box 19, Entebbe, Uganda, 2002)With its area covering 68,800 km2, a shoreline length of about 3,450 km around a basin area of about 258,700 km2, a mean depth of 40 meters and sometimes up to a maximum of 84 meters, Lake Victoria’s hydrology has been ... -
Review of the impact of water hyacinth on Lake Victoria: the case of Winam Gulf, Kenya.
(Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2004)Water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, invaded Lake Victoria in 1989 and has had significant social, economic and environmental impacts, which remain largely unquantified. The biological control administered by Kenya ...