SAMAKI (meaning fish in Kiswahili) is a six-year research and capacity building project,
which formally began in January 2021, as capacity building and research collaborative
project led by University of Tromsø, Arctic University of Norway with three partners in
Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam, State University of Zanzibar and Zanzibar Fisheries
and Marine Resources Research Institute together with two other institutions in Norway,
University of Bergen and Institute of Marine Research. The project has a budget of NOK 20
million (about USD 2m) funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
(Norad) through the NORHED programme.
The project aims to achieve capacity building through postgraduate education and research
collaboration, with an overarching interdisciplinary and holistic approach integrating five
specialised components: fisheries (especially small-scale fisheries), nutrition (micronutrients
from small fishes), livelihoods (incomes and food security), gender (women’s rights and
gender equality) and rights (including human rights and governance).