Whale surfacing with cargo ship in the background| Photo Courtesy of Ifaw When an elder from Kiunga in Lamu County, told scientists that they would regularly come across rare marine species like dugongs in their youthful days, it signaled something far critical. Elderly fishers along the Kenyan Coast are speaking out pointing out the many…
Participants at a two-day workshop on Fisheries Governance and Decision-Making Processes at National and Regional Levels during group discussion| Photo By Mazera Ndurya As hundreds of artisanal fishers along the Kenyan coast return from the Indian Ocean with assorted catches ranging from frigate tuna and bullet tuna to kingfish, barracuda, and rabbit fish for the…
Grantees from the GEF SGP UNDP funded projects participating in group discussion during the advocacy and policy training organized by strategic partner CANCO in Msambweni, Kwale County| Photo By Mazera Ndurya From cross-border harassment of fishers to the privatization of mangrove conservation, community groups in Kenya’s Shimoni-Vanga seascape are stepping up their advocacy efforts to…
Fish dealer Mariam Masudi preparing fish for the market at the Mkunguni Beach in Kwale County. Women are at the forefront in fisheries enterprise| Photo By Mazera Ndurya She did not just stumble into leadership – her path to leadership started way back in primary school from a class prefect to head girl at Mkwiro…
Women in Kibuyuni, Kwale County demonstrate to visiting GEF SGP team how to plant seaweed| Photo By Juma Shoka Along the southern coastline of Kwale County in Kenya where mangrove forests meet coral reefs and shallow seagrass meadows, community groups are quietly building one of Kenya’s most promising stories of marine conservation. Moving stories of…
Amina Ahmed (Mama Pweza), chairperson of Shanga Ishakani Women Fishers Group displaying one of her catches of the day in Lamu| Photo By TNC In the sunbaked creeks of Lamu and Kwale counties, women like Amina Ahmed popularly known as “Mama Pweza”, wade through the ocean daily for octopus, a lifeline for food security and…
Healthy Seagrass| Photo Courtesy On March 1, 2026, globally acknowledged as World Seagrass Day, the Kenyan coastal community was not left behind in celebrating such an important marine ecosystem. Fishers, conservation activists, civil society organizations, scientists and government officials converged in Kilifi for a day that was filled with wide-ranging activities including a beach clean-up…
Women harvesting seaweed in one of the seaweed farms in Kibuyuni, Kwale County| Photo courtesy Along Kenya’s vast coastline, an unassuming marine crop is quietly emerging as a cornerstone of the blue economy, offering a powerful solution to some of the region’s most pressing challenges of climate change, declining fisheries, poverty, food security and limited…
The Director of Coast Women in Fisheries Enterprises (CWIFE) Mercy Mghanga facilitating at the training on financial management for women in fisheries from Kwale and Taita Taveta Counties in Msambweni. The training organized by CANCO brought trainers from Equity Bank Group through the Equity Foundation |Photo by Mazera Ndurya Once perceived as a preserve for…
Nancy Chege, SGP GEF National Coordinator being assisted by a member of the Shimoni Turtle Watch to dive in Shimoni during a monitoring tour of the Shimoni-Vanga Seascape|Photo by Mazera Ndurya A dive into the turquoise waters of the ocean in Jimbo at the border between Kenya and Tanzania was pure bliss watching and marveling…
