Demonstrating and Capturing Best Practices and Technologies for the Reduction of Land-sourced Impacts Resulting from Coastal Tourism (COAST)

The objective of the Project is to address the negative impacts of tourism on the coastal and marine environment in Sub-Saharan Africa, as identified by the African Process , through promoting the development of sustainable tourism policies and strategies and the implementation of pilot demonstration projects in a number of countries that participated in the African Process. The full project objective is to demonstrate best practice strategies for sustainable tourism to reduce the degradation of marine and coastal envrionments of transboundary significance. The project will engage the private sector and enhance public-private partnerships to enable formulation and implementation of appropriate national and regional policies and strategies for sustainable tourism development in coastal and marine areas, including a policy and strategy framework to guide and promote ecotourism development. The full project will be designed to:

• (i) provide appropriate policy and strategy frameworks for sustainable tourism development in coastal areas;
• (ii) build/enhance national capacities in sustainable tourism development; and
• (iii) implement pilot demonstration projects. The pilot demonstration projects will be developed to:
  • (a) facilitate the voluntary adoption of eco-certification schemes by tourism facilities;
  • (b) alleviate poverty and provide alternative livelihoods to local communities through the development of eco-tourism;
  • (c) generate revenues for environmental conservation through eco-tourism; and
  • (d) promote best practices in mitigating environmental impacts of tourism through improved reef recreation management.

The demonstration projects are also aimed to reduce the coastal pollution from the land-based activities in conformity with the Global Programme of Action (GPA) and were endorsed at Heads of States meetings in Africa and in the NEPAD process.

Documents & Resources

newsletter [COAST] 5th Quarterly Newsletter: June 2014 [COAST] 4th Quarterly Newsletter: November 2013 [COAST] 3rd Quarterly Newsletter: June 2013 [COAST] 2nd Quarterly Newsletter: February 2013 [COAST] 1st Quarterly Newsletter: October 2012 iwlearn3_grahamstown2012_coastal_gibbon project-document [COAST] Project Brief: Global Environment Facility United Nations Environment Programme [COAST] Project Document: United Nations Environment Programme Global Environment Facility results-notes [COAST] 2011 Results Notes - Demonstrating and Capturing Best Practices and Technologies for the Reduction of Land-sourced Impacts Resulting from Coastal Tourism report [COAST] 2009: UNEP GEF PIR [COAST] 2010: UNEP GEF PIR [COAST] First Steering Committee Meeting Outcome Report [COAST] Second Steering Committee Meeting Outcome Report [COAST] Project Inception Report File [COAST] Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Regional and National Level [COAST] Demonstrating and Capturing Best Practices and Technologies for the Reduction of Land Sourced Impacts Resulting from Coastal Tourism International task force on sustainable tourism management [COAST] Project Brochure synthesis-report [COAST] Project Overview and Synthesis of Training Needs Image General Marine Information Map outreach-material [COAST] Sustainable Coastal Tourism in Africa image Badagry Demo Site - Lagoon -Nigeria Ada cruising on the river inboard boat - Ghana Statue of the Sato Drum- Nigeria Watamu Dabaso Boardwalk - ecotourism Inhambane Demo Site Moz Saly Demo Site - Senegal Watamu Dabaso Boardwalk - ecotourism Cameroon Londji Falls maps_graphic Watamu Marine Habitats Watamu Land Cover Watamu Tourism Map Watamu Hotels Watamu Community Map watamu-tourism-map Videos [COAST] Sustainable Marine Tourism in East Africa: Whose reality counts? Photos Demonstrating and Capturing Best Practices and Technologies for the Reduction of Land-sourced Impacts Resulting from Coastal Tourism