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Facilitating Cross-Border Dialogue the Case of Umba River Ecosystem in Kenya and Tanzania Lerise Summer School 2005 Facilitating Cross-Border Dialogue The Case of Umba River Ecosystem in Kenya and Tanzania Fred Simon Lerise Department of Urban and Regional Planning University College of Lands and Architectural Studies P.O. Box 35176, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Promoting cross-border collaboration for integrated management of Shared Trans-Boundary Ecosystems (STEs) is a critical issue in most African countries. This is because a significant number of rivers and lakes are trans-boundary. In Tanzania for example, at least 12 strategic water bodies are shared with other riparian nations. Out of these seven are shared with Kenya. Given this situation, Tanzania and Kenya as well as the East African Community have included the management of STEs in their policy strategies towards sustainable management of natural resources. This article outlines a process through which the governments of Kenya and Tanzania are jointly developing an institutional framework to improve the management of their STEs and to include that of Umba River. The river originates from the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania and flows to the Indian Ocean through Vanga Town south of Mombasa in Kenya. Although the process towards the creation of a cross-border dialogue is at its initial stage, it is evident that while grassroots level resource users from the two countries are keen and willing to collaborate the districts and central government level institutions seem to have different mandates and the existing policies are yet to give them sufficient room for action. On the other hand the ongoing reforms in the water sector in both countries constitute an opportunity to the dialogue process. However, it appears that the reforms are preoccupied with central government level institutions leaving the lower level organisations that are closer to the resource users largely out of the process. By and large district councils in both countries are yet to become conversant with their roles in the new set- up. FWU, Vol. 3, Topics of Integrated Watershed Management – Proceedings 69 Summer School 2005 Lerise Introduction The need to forge a cross-border dialogue among the users and managers of the STEs in the Pangani Basin become more pronounced in the early 1990s due to increased threats to the ecosystem. The threats ware caused by increasing poorly managed human activities in both countries. The first joint activity was carried out in 1996 where the assessment of management needs of the upper catchment of the Pangani Basin was carried out. That activity was followed by a planning workshop in 1999. The workshop was meant to facilitate development of a mechanism for collaborative management of the STE within the Pangani Basin. In a second workshop held in 2004 the management of the Challa-Jipe and Umba River shared trans- boundary ecosystem was prioritised by the stakeholders. Map 1 shows the location and extent of the two shared trans-boundary ecosystems. This paper focuses on the Umba River STE. Umba River is one of the trans-boundary river ecosystems along the north-eastern border of Tanzania and Kenya. It originates from a number of streams in the Usambara Mountains north of Tanzania and ends up in the Indian Ocean on the Kenyan coast south of Mombasa. The water in Umba River is a critical resource not only in terms of support to livelihoods of the communities living around it but also for its use in large scale irrigation, domestic water supply, the environment, as well as for hydro power supply. Although policies are in place and central government level institutions have been established in both Kenya and Tanzania the day to day management of the Umba River ecosystem is weak and thus calling for concerted efforts in developing mechanisms for strengthening the institutions towards effective coordination, collaboration and participation of the key stakeholders. Specifically, the different water users and managers need to be empowered to be able to practice integrated water resources management (IWRM). After realising the need for stakeholders in both Kenya and Tanzania to forge collaboration, efforts for joint management were initiated in early 1990s and have been on-going to date. In the following sections we summarise the steps taken so far and the challenges in establishing a dialogue process and forum in which IWRM can be introduced and practiced within the Umba River 70 FWU, Vol. 3, Topics of Integrated Watershed Management – Proceedings Lerise Summer School 2005 ecosystem. Before outlining the steps taken we provide an overview of the Umba River ecosystem. 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