jiddawi@ims.udsm.ac.tz

SOCIATAL IMPACTS

1.Social dynamics

The group had a very active discussion/interaction.

There was no language barrier despite the mixture of nationalities ( Portuguese speaking, Englkish and French)

There was a gender balance (4 men and 5 women)

2. Conrete issues discussed

  1. How to make an international project fruitful in terms of poverty alleviation and revenue generation
  2. How to make population interested and involved in environmental issues
  3. How to measure social impacts

We discussed more on the 3rd issue

The social impacts discussion dwelt more on projects dealing with coastal communities.

We discussed what kind of societal impacts exists as there were so many (comlex to have a standard indices) and it was difficult to set the boundary. These are aspects such as

Capacity building

Strategies

Change of behavior

Policy

Sustainable structures

Ownership
Empowerment

Legal institutions

Level of income (not monetary but could be quality of life such as education, health etc)

3. Recommendation

Funded projects should base the changes in socio impacts based on human development indices HDI which exists in al countries as a baseline on measuring societal impacts which the project expects to contribute.

Within the process targeted communities within International Waters projects should be measured separately from the government ones so as to highlight changes hat have taken place otherwise they will be hidden within the national statistics

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