Coastal Resources Center
University of Rhode Island
Narragansett, RI 02882
USA
The Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems (SUCCESS) Program is a five year initiative of the Coastal Resources Center supported through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Program’s overarching goal is to help coastal communities improve both their quality of life and their physical environment through good governance. This global program is implemented in selected regions and countries with an emphasis in East Africa and Latin America.
The Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems (SUCCESS) Tanzania Program entails building Integrated Coastal Management governance capacity while securing on-the-ground tangible results focused on conservation and sustainable use of natural resource-based livelihoods. The five-year Program is a partnership between the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island, the US Agency for International Development, and the Tanzania National Environment Management Council.
The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC)- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Water and Development Alliance (WADA) in Tanzania will delineate the drainage basins and characterize the surface catchments in the Wami River, increase the capacity of communities in water supply and sanitation through training and education, appropriate technologies, and strengthened community organizations, improve community access to safe water and sanitation services, promote environmental management systems to reduce wastewater discharges from the agro-industrial sector, conduct an environmental flow assessment of the Wami River Basin; and strengthen database management systems.
This is a research project, funded by the National Science Foundation, to identify the biological, social and political factors that lead to the success of Marine Protected Areas in the Wider-Caribbean Region. Results from this interdisciplinary research will provide managers, planners and resource users with scientific guidance on factors that lead to effective MPA governance and management.
The Coastal Resources Center\'s Summer Institute in Coastal Management is a three week-long, intensive training course for a diverse range of individuals who share the common goal of trying to improve the management of the world\'s coasts.
The Coastal Resources Center (CRC) promotes volunteerism. Our Rhode Island-based program for volunteer citizen water quality monitoring served as a national model. Volunteers have also served in many of our international field programs. International volunteer assignments are geared toward working professionals with at least five years of experience and who are willing to spend several weeks on an overseas assignment in a developing country. In 2005, The Coastal Resources Center's International Volunteer Program was highlighted in the annual Volunteers for Prosperity report to the White House.