Ngos donors and government
Linking NGOs and donors with local coastal communities as well as supporting government initiatives, Mwambao services help:
- Develop and implement community-centered projects and initiatives
- Disseminate new knowledge, information, and practices to coastal communities
- To actualise the community role in co-management
- To assist government to work in fisheries management at the village level
- To assist community members to carry out monitoring
Private sector
Linking environmentally sound private sector initiatives with community aspirations, Mwambao services help:
- To find common ground where initiatives can support livelihoods while respecting environment and culture
- To promote communication and resolve conflict over shared resources
- To work with all stakeholders to search for ‘win-win’ solutions
Science
Linking marine scientific discovery and research to traditional practices, Mwambao services:
- Help to pilot new approaches or innovations in fisheries and coastal management
- Document how new technologies interface with traditional knowledge and practices
- Disseminate applied research findings, good practices and technical solutions to management challenges among a broad range of coastal management practitioners;
- Monitor the deployment and use of new technologies by communities using community film
- Facilitate participatory monitoring and data analysis
Project Management
- Jointly implement community-based natural resource management initiatives
- Support the development of the community role in Beach Management Units, Community Conserved Areas and within existing MPA governance structures
Network Development
- Convene and train members
- Facilitate learning opportunities
- Raise awareness about coastal issues and building skills and capacity to manage resources
Communications
- Disseminate information
- Document and share best practices and challenges
- Monitoring
- Facilitate advocacy and community voice