OHI+ Kenya_Technical Report_2018

Ocean Health Index - Kenya 2018
OHI+ Kenya Report
Table of Contents
1. Kenya OHI - Summary for Decision-Makers .......................................................................................... 1
1.1. Why now? ...................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2. Tailoring the OHI to Kenya's needs and priorities ......................................................................... 1
1.3. Key findings .................................................................................................................................... 2
1.4. Recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 4
2. Background ............................................................................................................................................ 5
2.1. What is the Ocean Health Index? .................................................................................................. 5
2.2. Adapting the Index for Kenya ........................................................................................................ 5
2.3. Applications of the framework, process and tool ......................................................................... 5
3. Methodology ......................................................................................................................................... 6
3.1. OHI Framework .............................................................................................................................. 6
3.2. Priority goals .................................................................................................................................. 8
3.3. Spatial scale of assessment............................................................................................................ 9
4. Results .................................................................................................................................................. 12
4.1. Food provision: Fisheries ............................................................................................................. 12
4.1.1. Methods ............................................................................................................................... 12
4.1.2. Results .................................................................................................................................. 15
4.1.3. Challenges ............................................................................................................................ 17
4.1.4. Recommendations ............................................................................................................... 17
4.2. Biodiversity: Habitat sub-goal ...................................................................................................... 19
4.2.1. Methods ............................................................................................................................... 19
4.2.2. Results .................................................................................................................................. 20
4.2.3. Challenges ............................................................................................................................ 24
4.2.4. Recommendations ............................................................................................................... 24
5. Overall results and discussion ............................................................................................................. 26
6. Conclusions .......................................................................................................................................... 27
6.1. Management and Policy recommendations ............................................................................... 27
6.2. Challenges .................................................................................................................................... 27
6.3. Opportunities for further work.................................................................................................... 28
7. Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................. 28
8. References ........................................................................................................................................... 29
9. Appendices .......................................................................................................................................... 31
9.1. Participants, Kenya stakeholders engagement workshop February 2018 .................................. 31
9.2. Participants, Kenya stakeholders dissemination workshop November 2018 ............................. 32
9.3. Participants, all technical meetings ............................................................................................. 33
9.3.1. Project governance .............................................................................................................. 33
9.4. Method - calculating the index .................................................................................................... 34