Governing mangroves: unique challenges for managing Tanzania's and Indonesia's coastal forests

Lunch lecture by Dr Mathew Senga (University of Dar es Salaam). Lunch will be provided.

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The lecture

This study provides an analysis of natural resource governance, including land and resource tenure, in coastal mangrove forests in Tanzania and Indonesia, focusing in particular on the Rufiji delta (Tanzania) and Lampung province (Indonesia). By examining national-level legal and policy frameworks covering forestry, wildlife, fisheries, land, and agriculture sectors, the study identifies the way in which regulations and institutional coordination affects the governance of mangrove forests including tenure arrangements. The study also investigates how local-level governance arrangements for mangrove management and rehabilitation interact with the national framework. In particular, the study takes a close look at tenure rights within mangrove forests, gendered dimensions of use and management, as well as interactions among communities and government authorities in mangrove protection and rehabilitation. The main gaps and challenges in mangrove management in Tanzania emerging from this study relate to community rights and access; the distribution of power, responsibilities, and benefits between government authorities and communities; and coordination between relevant government agencies. Those in Indonesia include fragmented sectoral authority; devolved mangrove governance; coordination among key stakeholders; gender equality and benefit capture and distribution. The findings provide specific insights that need to be addressed in Tanzania and Indonesia to move toward a sustainable approach to mangrove management.

The speaker

Dr Mathew Agripinus Senga is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam. Dr. Senga has a PhD in Sociology from the University College Dublin, Ireland. He has a longstanding interest in social problems, rural livelihoods, religion and health. Although recently he has been increasingly focusing his work upon research and consultancy in socio-economic dilemmas associated with collaboration in management of natural resources, he also has a vast experience in research employing qualitative, quantitative and social network analysis approaches. His PhD research employed social network approaches of Exponential Random Graph Modeling (ERGM) and Stochastic Actor Oriented Modeling (SAOM).

Registration

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