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Through this project, we aim to strengthen existing efforts in LMMAs by: • Identifying, piloting, and promoting best practices in sustainable financing for LMMA operations. • Providing a platform for dialogue and peer-to-peer networking and best practice solutions. • Reviewing national policy and regulatory frameworks. • Providing a forum for participatory policy dialogues. Question and Answer session: Facilitated by Nafeesa Esmail (<strong>CORDIO</strong>) Question: With partnerships, how do we nurture networks, i.e. sustainability? Answer: By thinking about the blue economy agenda, for example, we have invited Emmanuel Nzai who will present on blue solutions. An aim for this project is sustainability. We have started engaging hotels among others in the private sector to see how we might be able to work together. Sustainable finance solutions are a big component of the LEAP project. Question: How do LMMAs align with current legal frameworks in the counties you are currently working in? Answer: The term LMMA is a generic term. In Kenya, we use the term co-management area. There are equivalent, but different terms used in Tanzania and in Mozambique. LEAP will align itself with the legal frameworks in the country it is working in. 3 Panel presentations discussion: Current effective LMMA examples and government support Kuruwitu: Pioneering LMMA conservation: Dixon Nyanje (Kuruwitu LMMA leader) Dixon provided a brief history of Kuruwitu Conservation and Welfare Association and the reasons why the Kuruwitu LMMA was established. After the coral bleaching in 1999, there was a decline in fish catches and fish size since 2002 and this has continued and has impacted the broader community. Causes of fisheries decline includes: • Overfishing; • Use of unsustainable and illegal gears, including mosquito nets; • Increase of fishermen in the area; • Human damage to coral; • Aquarium fisheries removing coral and key species; • Climate change The Kuruwitu Conservation and Welfare Association (KCWA) was set up in 2003. It benefited from support from EAWLS and other organization including <strong>CORDIO</strong>, WCS, KMFRI assisting with research to determine the areas’ marine resource status. This sparked the conception of creating an LMMA idea and which drove the initiative to begin. This led to the first LMMA to be set up in Kenya in 2006. KWS supported the idea as it would contribute to the 10% MPA coverage. KWS and Kenya Fisheries Service provided consultative influence for the fishers group during the establishment.
Existing challenges the Kuruwitu LMMA still face today include technical gaps, low literacy and high local community reliance on marine resources. Wasini: Community coral reef restoration: Omar Abdala Juma (Wasini BMU leader) Omar gave a brief description of the coral restoration project being carried out in Wasini island. The Wasini comanagement area was established in 2009, with tengefu (NTZ). This is aimed primarily to promote recovery of degraded areas and mobilize communities to support ecosystem restoration. There have been over 5000 coral specimens transplanted since 2014. Wasini is the only place in East and central Africa where this has been done; Seychelles in another African example. Women play a critical role in Wasini’s coral reef restoration. This initiative is driven by the entire community and in collaboration with government, donor and research institutions. The initiative has trained 17 other BMUs on reef restoration, providing an evidence of success. Lamu: LMMA successes and challenges: George Waweru Maina (TNC) LMMAs secure communities’ rights to fisheries and other marine and coastal area resources, including associated forests and wildlife. The challenges that exist in the Lamu- Pate LMMA network currently include: • Rights and ownership. • Open access nature-overfishing, destructive gears, habitat degradation/damage. • Weak governance and management capacity of institutions. • Lack of data to manage resources-harvest strategies • Lack of management plans, few fisheries have a management plan. • Lack of market-based incentives to encourage sustainable use. • Lack of diversified livelihoods; alternative, complementary/ supplementary aquaculture. The legislative and institutional framework (constitution, acts and policies, BMUs, CFAs etc.) are in place and are supportive. TNC is taking advantage of co-management approaches that have been adopted internationally. They use science to help fisher communities improve the design of fisheries zoning plans of their respective areas. They apply the LMMA Guide to encourage the community to think about their focal fisheries species, and their ecology (the habits they use, how far they move, how long they take to recover) and how that should influence designing zoning plans. Lamu established the first octopus’ closure in Kenya, led by women. This resulted in higher and bigger catches. This evidence that community conservation efforts can catalyse conservation benefits. Government support of community-based conservation: Rashid Omar on behalf of Barabara Mwaka (Kenya Fisheries Service) Rashid raised the concern that a number of projects target the same people and same aims. How do we coordinate these projects? The fact that most projects are being implemented in collaboration with the county government emphasizes the importance of the county government with the promulgation of the new constitution. County governments need to coordinate themselves to be able
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