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The EAF/5 Integrated Coastal Area Management Project is a multi-lateral project between the countries of the East African Region and the United Nations Environment Programme. The participating countries include Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros and the Seychelles. The project forms part of the activities of the Oceans and Coastal Areas Programme Activity Centre (OCA/PAC) of the United Nations Environment Programme within the framework of the Action Plan for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the East African Region. The completion of this work represents the end of the first phase of the EAF/5 project which involved the training of the nationals from the participating countries. This report presents the results of a literature and data search for a pilot study site (Beau Vallon). The objective of the coastal profile is to assemble a core set of socio-economic, physical and environmental data that will enable the identification of information gaps. This will assist in focusing subsequent research on the creation of a comprehensive database to be used for integrated coastal area management. The coasta profile is also intended to help identify the resources, activities, users, habitats and protected areas as well as major resource management issues such as environmentally critical zones, dominant physical processes and development patterns, user conflicts and specific issues for an integrated coastal area managemnet programme in the study area. The data presented were obtained from a wide variety of sources including: published and unpublished scientific papers and government reports, books, maps and navigation charts, interviews, questionnaires, personal observations and established databases. The data refers to the study site wherever possible, however, when data was not available information was given for the nearest spatial level and indicated in the text. The majority of the data referred to has been included in the annexes contained in the draft for easy reference and to assist with the establishment of the database in the future.
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