The document outlines Kenya's Beach Management Programme (BMP) which aims to improve management of beaches in Mombasa. Specifically, the BMP focuses on enhancing security, cleanliness, environmental health and restoring the image of Mombasa's beaches and marine park. Key objectives of the BMP include enhancing beach cleanliness, security and safety for visitors, reducing social issues on beaches, improving the beach environment for wildlife, and enhancing partnerships with hotels and communities. The BMP implements measures like beach and sea patrols, recruiting local community members for cleanups, training beach operators, and establishing lifeguard posts to achieve these objectives and improve conditions on the beaches by January 30th, 2011.

1. BEACH MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
(BMP)
Arthur Tuda
Senior Warden Mombasa
Coordinator - BMP

2. Beach Management
• Is a subset of Coastal Zone Management
• Beach Management in Kenya –
challenges and opportunities
• KWS attempt at BMP in Mombasa
Marine (1987-89)
• Its success, challenges and failures

3. Kenya Beaches from 80s to 2011
Collapse of governance structures
Increased insecurity including
abductions
Visitors harassment
Threats to marine park and beach
ecology
Poor waste management (solid and
discharges)

4. Kenya beaches 1980 - 2011

5. Concerns of beach Hotels
• Security on the beach – request for armed
patrols 7/7
• Unlicensed beach operations
• Increase of social vices including harassment
• Toilet and sanitation
• Waste disposal / disposal bins along the beach

6. BMP 2.0 - A new initiative
• Security and safety
• Beach cleanliness
• Environmental (beach) health
• Restoring image of Mombasa Marine &
Beach
Focus on beach management from an
environmental & visitor management
perspective

7. Mtwapa Creek
Tudor Creek
•Area coverage
•12 km beach

8. Programme Objectives
• Enhance beach cleanliness
• Enhance visitors’ security and safety
• Reduce social vices on the beach
• Improve beach environment for marine species
• Enhance partnership with hotels and communities
• Enhance image of North Coast Beach and Mombasa
Marine Park and Reserve
• Reduce management conflicts among beach users

9. Objective 1: Enhance security
•Beach & sea patrols
•Joint enforcement with Navy and Police
•3 boats deployed daily

10. Objective 2: Beach clean ups
•Current status of beach - 500 pieces of debris per 10sq metre of
beach
•35 beach cleaners recruited from local community & beach
•Waste collection done daily from Dec 1st
2011

11. Objective 3: Training of beach
operators to reduce social vices
•90 boat operators already
trained
•260 boat operators
remaining
•Other beach operators
will be included as
programme roles on
•MCTA to be enjoined in
training

12. Objective 4: Life guard duties
•Open up life guard posts along 12
km beach from Serena to Nyali
•Rangers trained on life saving
•To assist during school holidays

13. Objective 5: enhance beach
ecology
• Work with hotels on managing beach waste
• Reduce turtle mortality
• Deal with hotels discharging effluents on
beach

14. What to expect by 30th
January 2011
• Clean beach - immediately
• Beach zoned according uses
• Tourists sun bathing on beach – expected
from all hotels
• Harassment of visitors stopped
• Offenders expelled from beach
• Beach operators vetted & licensed
• Beach ecological status improved

15. Beach Monitoring Committee
• To be selected from tourism industry
stakeholders and government to monitor
performance the BMP and make
recommendations
• Hotels to give feedback from visitors for
further improvement