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    • A review of estimation of rainfall and evaporation over Lake Victoria 

      Okonga, Joel Richard (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 ...

    • A report on the Impact of Fisheries on the Resources along the shores of Lake Victoria 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (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) (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 ...

    • The Vision and Strategy Framework for Management and Development of Lake Victoria Basin 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (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, ...

    • Water Quality & Human Health around Lake Victoria. 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (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 ...

    • Tanzania National Water Quality Synthesis Report 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      The Water quality and Ecosystem Management Component of the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) in Tanzania for the past five years have made a considerable progress towards understanding Lake Victoria ...

    • Water quality and ecosystem status 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      The Winam Gulf’s aquatic environment (Figure 1) represents a considerable part of the economic potential of the country, e.g. with regard to fisheries and navigation. However, the use, the management and the preservation ...

    • Water quality and ecosystem status 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      The Water quality and Ecosystem Management Components of the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) in the three riparian countries (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) have made considerable progress towards ...

    • Knowledge and experiences gained from managing Lake Victoria ecosystem 

      Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP) 2004 (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2014)
      Lake Victoria is considered one of the most important shared natural resource of Eastern Africa. The Lake Basin supports about 30 million people one million of whom are employed formally or informally in fish related ...

    • Lessons learnt on catchment afforestation component of the Lake Victoria environmental management project 

      Chamshama, SAO (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      Lake Victoria is a shared water body by the three riparian countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The lake covers a surface area of 68 800 km2 and catchment area of 184 000 km2 and supports approximately 30 million people. ...

    • Lesson learnt from land use management through Integrated Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC) 

      Biamah, Elijah K (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      River Nyando is one of seven major rivers within the Kenyan side of the Lake Victoria Drainage Basin. The other six rivers are Sio, Nzoia, Yala, Mara, Sondu-Miriu and Kuja- Migori. The Nyando and Nzoia rivers have been ...

    • Regional Lessons Learnt Draft Final Report 

      Okeyo-Owuor, JB (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 ...

    • Lessons learned on micro-projects 

      Nyirabu, Mohabe (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 ...

    • Land use and land cover mapping of the Simiyu catchment (Tanzania) using remote sensing techniques 

      Rwetabula, Justus; Florimond, De Smedt (Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP), 2005)
      A process of integrating remote sensing techniques and field data to accurately map landuse and land cover of the Simiyu catchment is described. Satellite images of LANDSAT 7 ETM+ of 3/4/2001 and 12/5/2001 were processed ...

    • Integrating Family Planning/Reproductive Health and Environmental Conservation Policies and Programmes in East Africa 

      Lake Victoria Basin Commission (Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2013)
      This report presents and summarizes the presentations and discussions that took place during the symposium entitled “Population Health and Environment: “Integrating Family Planning/Reproductive health and Environmental ...

    • Mid Term Review of Mount Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP) 

      Larsen, Thor S; Kamugasha, Benjamin Nganwa; Karani, Irene (2008)
      This is a report of the Mid Term Review (MTR) of the Mt. Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme (MERECP). The MTR has, according to its TOR, been requested to assess overall progress, results achieved compared ...

    • Mount Elgon Regional Ecosystem Conservation Programme 

      Lake Victoria Basin Commission (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 (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 

      Lake Victoria Basin Commission (Lake Victoria Basin Commission, 2010)

    • The total economic value of Maasai Mau, Trans Mara and Eastern Mau forest blocks, of the Mau forest, Kenya 

      Lake Victoria Basin Commission (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 ...