SocMon Monitoring Site

Vanga and Jimbo Islands and Mkinga District

Western Indian Ocean : Tanzania/Kenya Transboundary
Year completed: 2009

Transboundary socio-economic monitoring report: Field study and information

 

Objectives

Identify resource use pattern and dependence to understand trends in coastal and marine resources; To understand the dependence of the community on the coastal and marine resources; To assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the managers of the coastal and marine resources; Establish the threats to the coastal resources and the probable solutions; To compare the economic status of the coastal and marine resources along the transboundary; Assessing the beliefs and perceptions related turtles and their products