LVBC Programmes and Projects: Recent submissions
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Mount Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2011)The Mt Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP) is jointly funded by the Governments of Norway and Sweden. MERECP is supporting a trans-boundary ecosystem initiative under the auspices of the East African ... -
Mount Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP)
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2010)An agreement was signed between IUCN-The World Conservation Union and ICRAF-The World Agroforestry Centre on 31 May 2006 to collaborate in the implementation of the Mount Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme ... -
Bibliography Mt. Elgon
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The total economic value of Maasai Mau, Trans Mara and Eastern Mau forest blocks, of the Mau forest, Kenya
(2011)The Mau Forest Complex is the largest closed‐canopy forest ecosystem in Kenya comprising different forest blocks under different management regimes. The study covered three of the Mau Forest Complex blocks, i.e. Eastern ... -
The trans-boundary Mara River Basin strategic environmental assessment (MRB SEA)
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2012)The Mara is not a large river, and ever increasing abstractions are certain to, at some point in the future, severely degrade the riverine ecosystem and even impinge upon the most basic needs of people living along the ... -
Strengthening community based natural resources management in the Maasai Mara - Serengeti ecosystem
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2011)This consultancy was undertaken by the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) for Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC), with a goal of preparing a basis for strenghtening of Community Based Natural Resource ... -
Mara river basin-wide water allocation plan
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2013)The Mara River Basin (MRB) is an important hydrologic system that not only serves the bordering countries of Kenya and Tanzania, but also exists as a valuable input to Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater ... -
Mara river basin natural resources management institutional capacity needs assessment
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2011)This report deals with the Natural Resources Management Institutional Needs Assessment of the Mara River Basin. The report gives an inventory of the institutions dealing with natural resources management and a detailed ... -
Mara River Basin Integrated Natural Resource Management
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2012)LVBC has been implementing Mara River Basin Transboundary Water for Biodiversity and Human Health (in the Mara River Basin Project (TWBHH-MRB) in Mara river Basin since 2009. The project focus include: To promote trans-boundary ... -
Establishing Mara river basin policy, legal and institutional cooperative framework
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2010)The East African Community (EAC)/ Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) received funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) East Africa to support Sustainable Development of the Mara River ... -
Equitable Benefit Sharing Of Natural Resources In The Mara River Basin ii
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2012)Lack of equitable benefit sharing among stakeholders and countries is one of the main factors that result into ineffective management of natural resources in most river basins in Africa, particularly the transboundary ones ... -
Equitable Benefit Sharing of Natural Resources Policy Brief in Mara River Basin
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2012)This policy brief aims at reviewing the status of equitable benefit sharing of natural resources within Mara River Basin and offering options for improving this state for the benefit of all stakeholders. Benefit sharing ... -
Documentation of Water and Sanitation Best Practices and Reporting Tools in Mara River Basin
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2012)Water is essential to life. Therefore, the way we extract it, use it and manage it is central to sustainable livelihoods for mankind and other life species that we share the planet earth with. LVCB through MRB/LVWATSAN II ... -
Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Sustainable Management of the Mara River Basin
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2010)Following international agreements on environmental management and sustainable development, including the Rio Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, both Kenya and Tanzania ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity ... -
Assessing Reserve Flows for the Mara River
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2010)The Kenya Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MOWI), formed in 2003, has as its fundamental goal conserving, managing and protecting water resources for socioeconomic development. In 2002, the Water Act was passed to provide ... -
Water hyacinth on the River mouth to Lake Victoria 2011
(Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2011)Aquatic weeds adversely affect water quality, biodiversity, amenity and recreational values of water bodies. Community, social, cultural and economic values derived from such water bodies are therefore impaired. Invasive ... -
A Basin-Wide Strategy for Sustainable Land Management in the Lake Victoria Basin
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HIV Sero-behavioural Study in the Fishing Communities along Lake Victoria in Uganda
(2010)The survey fieldwork was conducted in forty six fishing communities of the Lake Victoria Basin of Uganda in August 2010. The main aim was to establish HIV prevalence among fishing communities, the associated drivers of ...
