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DARMA INTERIM NARRATIVE REPORT SOUTH EAST ARM OF LAKE MALAWI CASE

DARMA INTERIM NARRATIVE REPORT SOUTH EAST ARM OF LAKE MALAWI CASE. By Steve Donda, George Matiya and Mafa Hara Presented at the 2 nd Plenary Meeting, Sea Point – Cape Town 28 – 31 st March 2011. Lake Malawi. ·. Mangochi. Brief overview of Fisheries Sector in Malawi.

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DARMA INTERIM NARRATIVE REPORT SOUTH EAST ARM OF LAKE MALAWI CASE

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  1. DARMA INTERIM NARRATIVE REPORTSOUTH EAST ARM OF LAKE MALAWI CASE By Steve Donda, George Matiya and Mafa Hara Presented at the 2nd Plenary Meeting, Sea Point – Cape Town 28 – 31st March 2011

  2. Lake Malawi · Mangochi Brief overview of Fisheries Sector in Malawi Malawi is 118,500km2 Malawi has a population of about 13 million people 20% of Malawi (23,900 km2) is covered with water With Lake Malawi being the largest water body South East Arm Shire

  3. Map of South east arm of Lake Malawi showing Traditional Authorities

  4. Overview of South East Arm • Human population for south east arm is 404,850 people • The population density for south east arm is 109 persons/sq.km • The predominant ethic groups - yao and chewa. • Athough 60% of the land in Mangochi is under customary land, most of the land along the lake has been leased to cottage and hotel developers

  5. First Year Workplan for South East Arm of Lake Malawi Case

  6. Achievements • Activity 1: A1A Network Organisation • Identified the core network team with respect to the critical common pool resources within the LM SEA area. • Invitation letters were sent to the identified subject matter specialists. • These individuals constituted the team leaders who are to lead the network that will work together to address the issue of fragmentation in commons management focusing on LM SEA • Seven key team leaders were identified 3 from within the University of Malawi, Bunda College specialising in Ecology, Forestry and Socio-economics; 3 from the Department of Fisheries; and one from Department of Land Resources, in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

  7. Activity 1: A1A Network Organisation cont’d…..

  8. Activity 2: Science Meeting 1 –A1B • The meeting was conducted on 21st May 2010 at the Fisheries Headquarters, in Lilongwe • The scientists were then asked to carry out literature reviews focusing on ecosystem interactions that relate to the exploitation of commons around the LM SEA. • Letters of appointment and request for participation were given •  The broader areas of literature reviews were identified as follow

  9. Activity 2: Science Meeting 1 –A1B Cont’d..... • Fishing, management and conflicts in the South East Arm • Land use, management and conflicts in the South East Arm • The Ecology of the South East Arm • Institutional structures and governance in the South East Arm • The economy and livelihoods in the South East Arm • Historical settlement patterns and conflicts in the South East Arm • Forestry management in the South East Arm catchment area • South East Arm environment in relation to pollution and siltation or habitat change • Paper synthesis

  10. Activity 3 – A1C: Reviews • The team leaders were tasked to write eight synthesis review working papers. • The terms of references and deadlines for this task were drafted in activity 2 above • The team leaders were tasked to lead the writing of a cross-disciplinary synthesis review and to use their prerogative to determine other individuals who could be involved as sources of information. • The outputs from this process were seven ecosystem based cross-disciplinary reviews.

  11. Activity 4: Science Meeting 2 –A1B • A 2-day working- scientific meeting was convened in Zomba at Hotel Masongola on 5th –6st August 2010. • For the sake of sharing information and comparing notes, team leaders from the Lake Malawi SEA and Chilwa cases were the main participants to this second Science Meeting. • The methodology adopted at this meeting was that each respective author presented their review and received feedback from the team. • The emphasis during each presentation was drawing-out critical interacting issues.

  12. Activity 4: Science Meeting 2 –A1B Cont’d …… • Lead authors were then asked to encoperate the comments from the scientific meeting into their papers

  13. Areas for possible research Each paper came up with possible research areas in the Action Research Phase • Costs and returns from fishing by small scale fishers • Conflicts among different stakeholders (tourism industry, fisheries, agriculturalists) and development policies • Local communities’ participation in fisheries management

  14. Challenges • Delayed funding is resulting in: • Loss of momentum by the stakeholders • Questionable sustainability of network due to low levels of interaction among the members • Delayed implementation of planned activities

  15. Some participants to the 2nd Scientific Meeting

  16. Thank You

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