Lake Victoria Environment Management Project, Kenya

Client: FAO Investment Centre

March 2018

Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project is a comprehensive regional development programme that covers the whole of Lake Victoria and its Catchment areas. The overall project level vision was: a stable Lake Victoria ecosystem capable of meeting demand for food, income, safe water, employment, disease free environment and a conserved biodiversity. In order to achieve the vision, the project had the following development objectives: to maximize the sustainable benefits to riparian communities of the lake basin from using resources within the Catchment to generate food, employment, income, supply safe water and sustain a disease free environment; to conserve biodiversity and genetic resources for the benefits of both the riparian and global communities; and to harmonize national and regional management programmes in order to achieve to the maximum extent possible the reversal of environmental degradation. The team member at WhitePeak was engaged by the FAO, to conduct value chain analysis of  selected value chains in Uganda and Tanzania. Secondary research and primary research encompassed in-depth analysis of academic literature, government statistics, other research sources and Key Informant Interviews with various stakeholder. The final deliverable included:

• A thorough analysis of agri-business value chains in Uganda and Tanzania for five commodities – Coffee, Cotton, Honey, Mango and Dairy  with the lens of sustainability.