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The COAST Project aims to demonstrate and support adoption of best practice approaches for sustainable tourism that reduces the degradation of marine and coastal environments of trans-boundary significance. This is through supporting and enhancing the conservation of globally significant coastal and marine ecosystems and associated biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa, through the reduction of the negative environmental impacts which they receive as a result of coastal tourism.

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The Collaborative Actions for Sustainable Tourism (COAST) Project is a five-year project in its fourth year of implementation. It is a Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Project with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the implementing agency; United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as executing agency in partnership with the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

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A Feature of the COAST Project in the Environmental Development Journal 2013

“Demonstrating the adoption and linkages of global best available practices and technologies (BAP/BATs) in reducing land based pollution in the Collaborative Actions for Sustainable Tourism (COAST) Project in Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania.”

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This website is produced and managed by the COAST Project with support from UNEP, GEF, UNWTO and UNIDO. The views expressed in this website are not representative of the funding agencies and partners. Although great care has been taken to maintain the accuracy of information herein, neither  the COAST Project nor its partner agencies assume any responsibility for consequences which may arise from the use of the materials.