CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS, ADAPTATION, MITIGATION AND LOCALIZATION OF COP 26 RESOLUTIONS IN KAGERA REGION, TANZANIA

(A pilot project)

1.      Project Background

‘Climate Change’ refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns on the earth’s surface. These shifts may be natural or as a result of various human activities. In 2021, The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its 6th in depth report which confirmed that human activity was “unequivocally” the cause of rapid changes to the climate. Since 1850 the increased production of greenhouse gases through industrialization, agricultural production, the burning of fossil fuels alongside deforestation has led to the Earth's average temperature rising more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius). NASA reported that the global average surface temperature in 2020 was the hottest on record.

Graph: The evolution of global mean surface temperature 1850 – 2020 +

Source: IPCC (2021)

Global warming has far reaching implications on socio-economic development and the entire global ecosystems. Climate change poses a serious risk to poverty reduction efforts and indeed threatens to undo many years of development efforts, including delaying the   achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is particularly the case for poor countries who contribute least to the problem but are the ones less able to cope with its consequences. “It is predicted that extreme events such as droughts, floods, tropical storm sand hurricanes are expected to be frequent, severe and unpredictable in future. Other effects which are predictable include, scarcity of energy and water, as well as declining human health, especially in rural households that represent most of the country's population”(Msumba,2009).

Tanzania’s economy is highly vulnerable to the adverse impact of climate change and to extreme weather events (URT, 2007). The anticipated temperature change due to global warming and variation in rainfall patterns particularly the Kagera region, will have significant impacts on agriculture, the environment and natural resources, health, tourism and other socio-economic sectors. This will directly affect the livelihood and economic development of Tanzania and Kagera region, which is largely dependent on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources as the main source of national / regional revenues and community livelihoods.

Addressing the negative effects of climate change requires urgent and collaborative efforts between the private/business sector, government and society. At the United Nations global summit on Climate Change (COP26) in November 2021, some 30,000 delegate’s representing 200 nations of the world (including Tanzania) pledged to stop deforestation by 2030, reduce greenhouse gases by 2050, keep global average temperature rise below 1.5°C and provide funding support to help countries adapt to and mitigate global climate change effects.

In order to achieve the goals set, action is required immediately, therefore, KADETFU and their partners propose to implement this project which will greatly contribute towards increased public awareness and education with regard to the impact of climate change in Kagera region and the generation of local ideas and community solutions to cope with the day to day challenges climate change will bring.

Fig1: Map of Kagera

2.      Project Rationale

According to the 2020 climate change study by Luhunga P. and Songoro A. in the Lake Victoria regions of Kagera and Geita regions, “the understanding of climate change impacts and the associated climate extreme events to local communities is of critical importance for planning and development of feasible adaptation strategies”. The study revealed that from1971–2000, the Kagera region experienced “a statistically significant increasing trend in temperature” from 0.54–0.69°C. The numbers of warm days (TX90p) and warm nights (TN90p) had increased, while the numbers of cold days (TX10p) and cold nights (TN10p) had decreased significantly. It predicted that the Lake Victoria region in future climate conditions (2011–2100) under both RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 emission scenarios, is likely to experience increased temperatures and rainfall. “The frequency of cold events (cold days and cold nights) is likely to decrease, while the frequency of warm events (warm days and warm nights) is likely to increase significantly. The number of consecutive wet days, the intensity of very wet days, and the number of extreme wet days are likely to increase. These results indicate that in future climate conditions, the socio-economic livelihoods of people in the Kagera and Geita regions are likely to experience significant challenges from climate-related stresses. It is, therefore, recommended that appropriate planning and effective adaptation policies are in place for disaster risk prevention.” To help Kagera adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change this project shall look at:

Deforestation which accelerates climate change. COP26 delegates (inc Tanzania) pledged to end and reverse it by 2030. Joint efforts are needed to rescue forests in Kagera Region following reports that these have been devoured by the timber industry and tree felling to make room for farming. From 2001 to 2020, Kagera lost 36.6 kha of tree cover, equivalent to a 5.4% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 12.4Mt of CO₂e emissions (Global Forest Watch) This has resulted in flooding, soil erosion and loss of biodiversity affecting people, plants and animals through inadequate food production, unavailability of water and health risks. Among the ravaged forests includes the Minziro Forest Reserve, 24,841 ha conservation area in Misenyi District. It protects one of the largest forests in Tanzania, and is a forest type unique in the country.

Low Carbon Energy, Transport & Infrastructure are essential to reduce carbon emissions. Adopting affordable, clean, renewable energy (inc. biofuels, wind, solar and hydro power) in the work place and at home; in addition to moving to more sustainable transport modes (e.g. trains,  bus rapid transit, electric vehicles) and building more eco-friendly safari lodges/ hotels etc. is imperative to help Tanzania meet its net carbon emissions commitment.

Protection of fresh water sources: Lake Victoria is one of the lakes that make up less than 3 percent of the global landscape, but buries more carbon than all of the world's oceans combined. “In the global carbon cycle, fresh water lakes and reservoirs are hotspots of carbon cycling and important players in the global carbon cycle. Lakes burry more carbon than they release into the atmosphere. They are important carbon sinks” (Reed et al, 2018).Protecting the lake from silting and other forms of pollution (which also impact on fish supplies) will be among the awareness campaigns of the proposed project.

Public Health suffers as a result of extreme weather conditions. Floods increase the incidence of water borne diseases as they provide a good environment for the proliferation of germs and vectors leading to increased outbreak sin Malaria, bilharzias etc. Droughts, alternatively, lead to food shortage resulting in malnutrition making people weak and less productive.

The scientific research by Yanda P.Z.et al (2005), reveals that the occurrence of malaria is associated with multiple factors, other than the terrain features, including climate variability. This study also revealed that women, children and the elderly are more vulnerable to malaria mainly because they are always in the fields cultivating, finding firewood and water for household cooking. If renewable energy is provided and climate change effects mitigated, these groups will be rescued.

Gender inequality. Climate change impact affects gender categories differently. The most vulnerable gender categories include children, women, and people with disabilities. Women are the main producers of the world’s staple crops, providing up to 90%oftheruralpopulation food intake and producing 60-80% of the food in most developing countries. Climate change will affect food security at household level and therefore increase psychological effects on women. They are also responsible for most household chores and in the Kagera Region, women are involved in cooking food, housekeeping, and caring for the children, the old and the sick. The drying up of rivers and springs will cause high scarcity of water and increase the burden on women to travel longer distances to fetch water; whilst the decrease in forests will increase the burden of fetching to wood for fuel. At COP26 President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania highlighted the gendered impacts of climate change when addressing the delegates. Along with other leaders she signed a joint statement calling for the role of women and girls to be advanced in addressing climate change issues in community, national, and international level.

This project will focus on gender dimensions and reduce gendered climatic effects on the community through promoting climate change mitigation and adaptation measures that address the negative effects.

UNSDGs:  Goal Number 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It is intrinsically linked to all 16 of the other Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It aims at focusing on the integration of climate change measures into national policies, the improvement of education, awareness-raising and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warnings.

This proposed project will aim to bring a greater understanding of the main long-term impacts of climate change in Kagera, Tanzania and Africa. It will focus in creating awareness on climate change impacts to local communities in the Kagera region and the neighboring regions. It will encourage innovations and lead people to take responsibility and find ways and means to mitigate the impacts and develop adaptation measures for long term sustainability of their homeland.

The project scope will initially involve 3 districts of Muleba, Misenyi and Bukoba DC as a pilot project from which 20 wards will be randomly be selected and from each ward five villages will be selected. A total of 60 yards and 100 villages are expected to be covered. Further to that, since climate change is a long term phenomena, after 12 months of the pilot project, the consortium intends to create a five years plan to scale up the project to other districts of Kagera Region and later to other neighboring regions of Geita, Mwanza and Mara, (seepage3 Fig 1).

3.      Problem Statement

Kagera region is known to have complex spatial and temporal climate patterns largely modulated by the presence of Lake Victoria. This has made the government of Tanzania identify Kagera and Geita as priority areas for addressing the vulnerability from the impacts of climate change in Tanzania (Luhunga P, and Songoro A.2020).

Regrettably, in Kagera region, like in many other regions of Tanzania, community awareness and understanding of climate change causes, effects and impacts is very low. For instance, many people see changes in patterns of rainfall seasons, but they don’t associate them with human activities. Therefore, an intervention has to be made to make this community aware that their various activities on the surface of the earth can negatively contribute to climate change effects.

Kagera is one of the regions in Tanzania having a variety of wetlands with temporary stagnant and some permanent water sources used for agriculture; it also has rangelands that area stronghold for biodiversity sheltering a variety of plants and animal species of ecological and socio-cultural importance. However, there is the problem of mismanagement of these resources through agriculture and deforestation as result of being unaware of environmental management.

Farmers and pastoralists in Kagera region have been experiencing a lot of problems pertaining to climate change. For example in most rural areas, farmers are facing Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) commonly known as “mnyauko” and drying of crops due to prolonged drought which also hinder their economic development while pastoralists lack pastures for their livestock. Moreover, due to climate change, local inhabitants of Kagera Region have been forced to change from their traditional food popularly known as matoke to the newly introduced species known as Fia and Mtwishe which are not as tasty as matoke.

Agriculture is the mainstay of the people of Kagera region. It engages about 90 percent of the regional population in the production of food and cash crops. However, the agriculture sector is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Higher temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops while encouraging weed and pest proliferation.

Smallholder farmers are not only victims of climate changes, but also contributors. They degrade the environment as they are forced by poverty that is associated with limited knowledge on sustainable farming through utilization of unfriendly, unsustainable and outdated agricultural techniques which cause poor and decreased productivity from one season to another. Changes in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of short-run crop failures and long-run production declines. Regional reports have it that, although there are gains in crops in some districts of Kagera region, the overall impact of climate change on agriculture is expected to be negative, threatening regional food security. Local communities in Kagera region, which are already vulnerable and food insecure, are likely to be the most seriously affected.

In Kagera Region, a study conducted by ESRF (2013), found that, farmers’ crops, especially coffee, which is the main cash crop and banana, the main food crop, were most affected by climate change. While these crops need enough water, the amount of rainfall continues to decline year after year, plant diseases continue to increase.   And when there are heavy rains due to climate change, vegetation and compost from the fields are disrupted. In addition, the study further states that; the effects of climate change are expected to increase every year if citizens do not heed the instructions to address these effects and take precautions against it. The destruction and degradation of forests contributes to climate change through the release of carbon dioxide (CO2), while the planting of new forests can help mitigate against climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Tourism is an essential sector in Kagera, supporting the livelihoods of thousands of local people and protecting fragile eco systems. Kagera has two recently opened prominent national parks, and changes in weather conditions and biodiversity is known to effect animals normal habitats forcing them to migrate to more favorable sites or into local villages to find food and water.

The rise in the water level of Lake Victoria in 2020 caused floods and in several cases drowning of roads and beach based leisure establishments around the lake. Kiroyera Tours Lake Victoria beach camp in Bukoba is one of those that drowned. In Bukoba, the Airport runway that starts very close to the lake shore has faced encroachment by the floods due to the rising water level of the lake.

In view of the above, KADETFU and their partners, have decided to make a community based intervention to assist local communities increase their adaptation to the effects of climate change, thereby reducing their vulnerability.

4.      Goals and Objectives

4.1.The Goal

Awareness and knowledge among the community members of Kagera Region on climate change causes, effects, existing and potential mitigation and adaptation measures

• Specific objectives

• Promotion of active involvement and participation of community leaders at District and Regional levels
• Creating awareness and improving knowledge to community members on climate change vulnerabilities, causes, effects, mitigation and adaptation measures and formation of school environmental clubs. Promotion of sustainable agriculture to the community members through organic farming and other sustainable agriculture
• Promotion of afforestation and reforestation among community members through establishment of tree nurseries, 20 in each district of Misenyi, Muleba and
• Promoting the use of renewable energy and other energy alternative sources.Creating awareness on the effects of siltation and pollution of Lake Victoria and climate change impact on fisheries
  • Strategies

In order to improve the above situation, the following strategies are proposed:

1. Active involvement and participation of community leaders at District and Regional levels will include a one-day workshop at which participants will discuss on climate change effects in the Region. It will however, act as a platform to raise political will and commitment. Participants to this workshop will be drawn from regional level; including Regional Commissioner, RAS, environmental expert, forestry officer, planning Officer, community development officer, agriculture officer, environmental management committee chairpersons. From the district will include the District Commissioners (DC), District Executive Director (DED), and District Chairpersons, Environmental officers, meteorology officers, forestry officers, health, infrastructure, tourism, and community development officers, District Education Officers, Agriculture officers, environmental officers, environmental committee Chairpersons, others are from, NGO/CSO, FBOs experts and other selected community members. They will discuss on climate change, its effects, mitigation and adaptation measures and shape way on localization of COP 26 resolutions in their respective areas. The facilitators will be drawn from the Government experts at the Vice President’s Office, Regional and District departments and other places with environmental and climate experts. The workshop will however, develop an integrated plan of action. This plan will underline the role and responsibilities to be played by each stakeholder. The workshop will seek for local support, local contribution and it will act as the means for strengthening co-management mechanism among the stakeholders.
2. Creating awareness and improve knowledge to community members on climate change effects, mitigation and adaptation measure will include awareness meetings at village level, print and dissemination of printed tools, radio and TV broadcasting and drama groups. Each selected school will be facilitated to form an environmental club. These clubs will be the forums for environmental information exchange and a catalyst for implementation of the planned activities. After formation, these clubs will be trained by the teachers who have been formally trained. The project will also develop Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) and Information Education and communication (IEC) materials capacity building participatory workshops, meetings, seminars involving Radio, TV, drama groups and printed

• Promotion of sustainable agriculture through organic farming and other sustainable agriculture practices. Contact farmers will be trained in organic farming, contour farming, agroforestry and other sustainable farming technologies. Selection of contact farmers will be done by the Ward Agriculture

1. Afforestation and reforestation Trees have global significance as they act as carbon dioxide (CO2) sinks by reducing the concentration of CO2 emission in the atmosphere thus minimize the effect of global warming. Together with domestic uses (as firewood, building materials and medicinal use) and improving vegetation cover, planted trees also control soil erosion, which results to stable land use and subsequently improve economy of the There is also an actual and potential contribution of forests and trees to food security and sustainable livelihoods. In many villages and small towns, such contribution is essential for food security, as they provide a number of micro-nutrients that staple crops do not provide adequately. Trees and forest foods frequently provide food safety-nets in time of famine, crop failure, dry season shortages and to HIV/AIDS affected households unable to crop their land effectively. The planned 100,000 tree seedlings to be raised in each district will be distributed to the community for planting. This activity will also be regarded as part of learning for vivid impact mitigation. Also, the project will introduce a special School programme to be known as “triple ‘O’ School programme” (One student- One Tree, One Year). This means, each student will be advised to plant at least one tree each year and care for it. It is therefore anticipated that since there is an average of 365,375 primary school pupils in the region each year, then an estimation of the same number of trees will be planted each year and because each primary school pupils stays at school for seven years, a total of 2,557,625 Trees will be planted through this programme in the region. Under this project, afforestation and reforestation will be done through conserving natural forests, establishment of 20 tree nurseries in each participating district and tree planting at all schools using triple “O” concept. At the end of each year, best students will be rewarded for planting many trees and keeping them. However, communities will be sensitized to plant at least ten trees in their woodlots at family level.

1. Renewable energy will include promoting the use of biogas, solar energy and introduction of energy saving stoves. This will combat emission in the atmosphere as well as reducing the workload on women for walking long distances fetching

4.4.Project Activities

1. To conduct project, Startup workshop involving 50 participants,

This will be a one-day workshop involving 50 participants from Regional and District levels.

1. To conduct awareness and social mobilization meetings in all villages of the selected wards and formation of fire prevention and fighting squads (FPFS) with 10 members each.

• To prepare, print and disseminate 2000 brochures, 2000 flayers, 200 posters in a form of a calendar, 5 folding posters and other printed tools.

1. To Engage Radio, TV, drama groups and other media channels to disseminate information about climate change effects, mitigation and adaptation and resolutions from COP 26 in Kagera
2. To facilitate formation of school environmental clubs and train them on environmental management including tree planting and the benefits there
3. To prepare and produce training manual for TOT training on climate change effects, mitigation and adaptation involving 6 experts for 3 days. An expert from Environmental Protection and Management Services (EPMS) in Dar es Salaam, a climate change consulting organization will join the 6 experts to facilitate this exercise.

• To facilitate selection of 60 contact farmers, 20 from each district, one from each selected ward.
• To train 60 contact farmers, 20 from each of the participating district on sustainable agriculture and support them with farm inputs for two days at Igabiro TIA.

1. To conduct Training of Trainers for 100 Trainees involving teachers from each school of the participating ward in two sessions for two days each. The ToTs will then conduct awareness and trainings to the community members at village levels.
2. To conduct a one-day Training for 100 firefighting squad members in firefighting techniques and fire break reporting strategies.
3. To Establish 60 tree nurseries, 20 in each district of Muleba, Misenyi and Bukoba DC i.e. one in each ward.

• To facilitate tree planting practices in schools using triple O approach i.e. (One student, One tree, One year) and in community woodlots at least 10 trees at each household. A total of 50,000 trees will be planted every year.
• To promote the use of renewable energy. During ToT training, technicians will be invited to conduct training on solar energy, biogas, fuel saving cook stoves and other alternative sources of energy. After training, ToTs will disseminate information about sustainable use of renewable energy to the community members during village meetings.
• Conduct monthly monitoring and participatory evaluation at the middle of the project and a final participatory evaluation at the project end.

1. Administration and Management. There will be the project office, project staff including the Executive Director, Project Management Co-chairs Project Coordinator, an Environmental expert, an Accountant and M&E officer. The supportive staff will include the Driver, Cashier. If need be, other staff will be outsourced on short term basis including the project consultant.

• To create awareness on effects of siltation and pollution of Lake Victoria waters and climate change impact on fisheries.

4.5.Expected Results

1. An integrated plan of action that show responsibilities among the regional, district and other stakeholders in place.
2. Increased awareness on environment, climate change effects, mitigation and adaptation measures and the relationship between the community activities and the climate.
3. COP 26 resolutions localized to local communities according to their local context.
4. Enhanced change in behaviour among the communities with sustainable climate actions.
5. Improved cost effective and sustainable environmental management.
6. Increased number of households using alternative sources of energy.
7. Improved food security and sustainable livelihoods and poverty reduction
8. Green environment as results of planted trees and initial stage of curbing Carbon Dioxide (CO2).
9. Reduction in greenhouse gases emission

5.      Project Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

The monitoring Officer from the project management team, will conduct close monitoring once every month and submit the monitoring report to the Project Management Team. The Coordinator who is the Project Management Secretary will submit the same to the Executive Director. The Director will present the monitoring report to the Executive Board for final approval and then transmit the same to the Donor and other responsible authorities.

The accountant will be responsible for financial matters and monthly financial reports that will be presented to the Executive Board for approval before they are submitted to the donor.

A database will be established at which all data from the field will be stored and processed. Participatory evaluation will be conducted in the middle of the project while final participatory evaluation will be conducted at the end of the project.

6.      Sustainability Plan

To ensure sustainability, the project is designed with involvement of Government leaders, local authorities and the community members including women groups. These will ensure ownership of the project and therefore take over even when the donor funds run out or the project comes at its end.

1.      Project Logical Framework Matrix

2.      Project Action Plan for 12 Months

3.      About the Applicant

This project will be implemented by a consortium of two organizations KADETFU and KIROYERA TOURS & CONSULTING. Ms. Julie Ralston, based in the UK will provide requisite technical support during the project implementation. Each of the consortium member will play a productive role to ensure the project achieves its intended objectives.

3.1.About KADETFU: The Lead Applicant

Kagera Development and Credit Revolving Fund (KADETFU) is a National Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that is based in Kagera region, it is located in Bukoba town, in the Northwestern part of Tanzania. It was registered by the government on July 30th, 1993, under the Trustees Incorporation Ordinance cap No 375 of 1956. The registration number is ADG/TI/ 2058. Under the new NGO act 2004, it has now obtained a Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1596 of 13.3.2006. The Head office of KADETFU is situated in Bukoba Municipality along Kawawa Street, at the Ujirani Mwema Building rooms 1,2, and 26. It has a Field office in Muleba District which is located at Rubya near Rubya Hospital. KADETFU owns a radio station known as Kagera Community Radio that hosts debates and educative programmes on agriculture, environmental management including climate change, human rights, disaster management/early preparedness and other local contents that have appeal to public lives and livelihoods.

The organization has an Executive Board with six Board members ranging from various professions and experience. It has 34 employed staff and 105 Field volunteers known as Field Facilitators/Field workers who link the head office with the community at grassroots level.   It has two foreign Volunteers from abroad.

Due to the successful implementation of various projects on environmental conservation, KADETFU was honored with the “Lake Victoria Environmental Award 2006” that was provided by UN-HABITAT and LARVLAC for her outstanding commitment in the conservation of the Lake Environment. KADETFU is also a winner of the National and Zonal CSO excellence awards as was recognized and awarded by the Foundation for Civil Society of Tanzania. The organization has many other awards for her outstanding in implementing community donor funded projects.

The Executive Director of KADETFU Dr. Yusto Muchuruza has a diverse experience in community development arena and has presented many papers at the international conferences on humanities, the environment and other social development issues. Dr. Muchuruza is also an author of many books that touch the human development and her environment.

The Vision Statement of KADETFU: A friendly environment, a healthy, prosperous, and just society that is committed to solution of its problems independently and sustainably.

The Mission Statement of KADETFU: To protect human rights, conserve the environment, facilitate promotion of social, economic, cultural development and empower the society to organize and fight for their needs through sustainable utilization of locally available resources.

The objectives of KADETFU

1. Economic promotion by enhancing income opportunities in the communities and ensure food availability at household level in urban and rural areas through improving community capacities and research.
2. Protecting and advocating for human rights of the poor and vulnerable groups.
3. Conservation and management of environment through improving natural resources management, mitigation to climate change and reducing loss of biodiversity.
4. Improving survival, health and well-being of all community members through promoting primary health care; HIV/AIDS control and research.
5. Improving infrastructure development, i.e. communication systems, roads, school and health facilities.

3.2.About Kiroyera Tours and Consulting

Kiroyera Tours and Consulting (Kiroyera) was registered in Tanzania by BRELA on 9 May 2021 under the company ordinance act as a tourism-oriented company. It is based in Kagera region with its headquarters in Bukoba town. It is a private company and the consulting wing often works on an independent consultant status. The board of directors consist of 3 Board members and Mary Kalikawe is the founder and Managing Director. Mary is a former University lecturer, has served as a Board member of the Tanzania Tourist Board, is Chair of AWOTTA, and is a member of the Ambassadors of the African Tourism Board (ATB).

Kiroyera is excited with its achievements made over the past years. To mention some; the Company managed to open three branches Bukoba, Mwanza and in Dar es salaam.

Kiroyera had humble beginnings as a pioneer in Bukoba an area off the beaten path of tourists to Tanzania. Our slogan “Making a difference Through Tourism: Ensuring Kagera makes the most of its natural assets now and for the future” leads our environment sensitivity as we develop and operate tours.

Kiroyera tours (see: www.kiroyeratours.com) and Consulting (www.kiroyeraconsulting.com) has done extended work on initiating sustainable tourist destination development (including climate change mitigation and adaptation in tourism), training in improving service in the tourism and hospitality industry, training the community and small business owners on how to recognize opportunities for self-employment on the tourism value chain, playing a leading role in establishing, registering and creating operations of several Associations including Kagera Tourism Development Association (KATODEA), Mwanza Tourist Association (MTA), Association of Women in Tourism Tanzania (AWOTTA) based in Dar es Salaam www.awotta.org and Kihanja Public Association for Preservation( focusing on preservation of cultural aspects and cultural values sustainably.

Kiroyera Tours has won numerous awards for promotion of tourism, good governance, creativity and innovation, service, influence in Business and government at Africa continent level. In addition, developing sustainable practices including sustainable environmental management.

Kiroyera Consulting is an environment conservation organization focusing on climate change, looking on the Climate change crisis especially on the global effects on the tourism industry and to humanity and its surroundings in general. We believe without action we in the developing ambit will suffer.

Vision statement: Kiroyera Tours and consulting remains a leader in Sustainable Tourism Development in the East Africa region by maintaining sustainable practices with a high rank among the best companies and a preferred choice for tourists and other clients.

Mission Statement: To widely promote Lake Victoria Zone as a sustainable tourist destination and to operate quality assured tourism services within the Lake regions, around Dar es Salaam and beyond.

3.3.About Ms. Julles Ralston - The Consultant

Julles Ralston is an experienced Project Manager in Agile Methodology and is a PRINCE2 Practitioner, leading teams to successfully deliver global projects which transform businesses, communities and individuals. Based in the UK, over the last 30 years, Julie has designed and delivered operational and technological based solutions primarily in the transport, travel, tourism and education sectors. This includes 10 years working with stakeholders across the African continent for British Airways and supporting sustainable, community and tourism initiatives within Tanzania since 2014.

Results driven, Julie also specializes in marketing and communications projects across digital and mobile channels, nurturing commercial and creative partnerships to achieve agreed targets. She has a deep understanding of the climate change crisis on human, environmental and financial levels, and is actively involved in assisting organizations and individuals reduce their carbon emissions in line with COP26 commitment.