Environmental policy and administrative management

The project purpose is to provide strategic environmental management framework for the prevention of Lake Victoria shores for the communities residing along the lake shores. There is a vast increase in both point and non point sources pollution to Lake Victoria from the surrounding villages respectively. The pollution sources are contributed by the majority of communities who have no latrines completely or who make use of unimproved pit latrines with very shallow depths and poorly located. This has resulted into an increase in the waterborne diseases like typhoid, amoeba, bilharzia, dysentery and diarrhea. Some households have pit latrines but were detected to be poorly located above the water sources and thus polluting the water sources below them. Poor location of the latrines and non- use of the latrines at all are still a very big problem facing the project focus area. Upendo CBO proposes to address the above threats by: supporting and enhancing capacities of communities to conserve and protect Lake Victoria shores, improve community health through increased knowledge and awareness of target communities on environment protection and health issues, facilitate construction of demonstration pit latrines and support for the establishment of multipurpose tree nurseries and forestation/reforestation activities.

Tanzania