[{"bbox": [97, 153, 1162, 205], "category": "Text", "text": "development of the sector and to attract more foreign investment especially in the coastal areas where the Blue Economy TEI will focus."}, {"bbox": [97, 218, 1162, 375], "category": "Text", "text": "The coordination of the tourism activities in Tanzania is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT) and the implementing lies with its various agencies¹⁷. Directorate of Tourism under MNRT is responsible for much of coordination of the policy. Due to nature of the scattered entities involved in tourism, the M&E framework is relatively weak, hence strengthening the coordination and implementation capacity of the Directorate of Tourism is necessary. Currently, progress reports on tourism can be obtained from respective agencies of the MNRT."}, {"bbox": [97, 390, 1162, 496], "category": "Text", "text": "Public financing for the tourism sector is through central government subvention to the MNRT. Overall, MNRT was allocated 571 billion TZS¹⁸ in the 2021/22 budget, of which 73% was recurrent expenditure and 27% for development interventions. Other sources of funds to the tourism sector is through bilateral and multilateral programmes and private sector (both foreign and domestic)."}, {"bbox": [134, 508, 1162, 561], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### C. Fisheries Policy (2015) complemented by the National Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Management Strategy, NICEMS (2003)"}, {"bbox": [97, 561, 1162, 827], "category": "Text", "text": "The National Fisheries Policy (2015) sets forth objectives to support productive use and conservation and sustainable use of resources in the national water bodies. The policy seeks to address fisheries resource management, utilization and market controls, aquatic environmental protection, amongst other things. The long-term objective of the policy is to achieve sustainable fisheries. One among specific objectives is to ensure effective management and sustainability of fisheries resources and aquatic environment. It further entails the need to support conservation and protection of the fisheries resources and environment in the marine areas. In this respect, the Policy aligns with the draft Blue Economy Strategy. Given the nature of the coastal ecosystem, in order to realize policy effectiveness, it is therefore, complemented by the National Integrated Coastal Ecosystem Management Strategy, NICEMS (2003). The NICEMS is a relevant and credible strategy that provide instruments for the implementation of the Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) interventions in the country, which aligns with the Blue Economy Strategy."}, {"bbox": [97, 839, 1162, 1128], "category": "Text", "text": "The ICM action plans have been developed and implemented in all coastal districts, leading to an increased number of programmes/projects on coastal and marine conservation and awareness on the importance of conservation of coastal resources among the coastal communities. A number of application tools including sectoral guidelines such as Mariculture Investors Guide, District ICM Action Planning Guidelines, and Coastal Tourism Guidelines are in place. These actions have so far proven very relevant to preserve and enable productive use of coastal ecosystems. However, there are a number of issues with significant implications for ICM that have emerged over the years, which need to be integrated into a new NICEMS/ Blue Economy Strategy. These include oil and gas exploration and extraction, bio-fuel development, climate change, and the whole ecosystem based and disaster risk reduction frameworks. Of particular importance is how to spatially map and allocate uses (coastal spatial planning) to different coastal and marine areas to reduce over-exploitation, minimize resource use conflicts and ensure secure resource tenure."}, {"bbox": [97, 1143, 1162, 1276], "category": "Text", "text": "The coordination of the NICEMS as it is a crosscutting strategy lies under supervision VPO, through the National Environmental Management Council (NEMC)¹⁹. The implementation of the NICEMS lies with line ministries and local government authorities. The NICEMS, aligns with the National Environmental Master Plan for Strategic Interventions (NEMSI, 2022 – 2032. Key elements of the NEMSI especially those with significance to the coastal and marine ecosystems will be operationalized by the NICEMS."}, {"bbox": [97, 1289, 1162, 1368], "category": "Text", "text": "Finance to cater for the NICEMS include subvention from the government to NEMC, and as well to participating sectors under their respective budgets, bilateral and multilateral programmes and private sector. For the year 2021/22 the budget allocated for NEMC was 3.7 billion TZS²⁰."}, {"bbox": [97, 1381, 208, 1404], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conclusion"}, {"bbox": [86, 1452, 1144, 1535], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁷ MNRT has several bodies that provide services and management of the tourist sites including the Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA), Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority (TAWA), Tanzania Forest Services agency (TFS), and Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and Department of Antiquities. MNRT further has dedicated tourism promotional entity the Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB), which is responsible to support marketing of tourist attractions of the country"}, {"bbox": [86, 1535, 259, 1558], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁸ Approx. 227.1 M EUR"}, {"bbox": [86, 1558, 1144, 1622], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁹ NEMC is responsible for the M&E of the NIEMCS. NEMC is a capable autonomous entity established in 1983, with responsibilities of enforcing environmental management laws. Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, MNRT and Ministry of Lands Housing and Human Settlements including National Land Use Planning Commission (NLUPC) are important stakeholders due to jurisdictions related to allocation and supervision of coastal and marine resources."}, {"bbox": [86, 1622, 736, 1645], "category": "Footnote", "text": "²⁰ Budget Speech by Min. Suleman Jaffo, in the Parliament Session in 2021/2022 budget session."}, {"bbox": [1028, 1681, 1144, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 10 of 36"}]