Recently, the CityLinks team traveled to Dar es Salaam for a local government capacity building workshop focused on climate change and coastal management. The workshop was executed as part of the Durban-Dar es Salaam Climate Change Partnership. Check out some of the gorgeous scenery in Tanzania and hear from one of the workshop participants in the short video below.

"My name is engineer Ismail Mafita. I'm working with Kinondoni Municipality as a road engineer. My background is a civil engineer and I am head of road sections. I can say something about this course which is being conducted here at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel.

"Formally this concept of coastal management was not well known by we engineers, especially engineers whose municipalities are within the coastal areas. We are just seeing the sea is like the way it is and it has to stay like that but there a lot of things be done in managing coastal areas.

"Also I had a chance to go to Durban and see how the eThekwini Municipality is managing their coastal areas. I learned a lot of things there; I learned about soft mechanisms of managing them. You know, we engineers are always thinking about hard things: like concreting and stone walls but there are other means and a mechanism of managing them as a softer means which are more cheap and more friendly to coastal areas."