WE PROVIDE A SERVICE

WE HAVE A UNIQUE WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEGE

our SERVICES

We are a social enterprise providing essential client, partner and community services utilising the unique wealth of experience and knowledge within the Mwambao team.  

We provide services: 

  • NGOs, Donors and Government
  • Private sector
  • Science
  • Community services

ngoS, DONORS & GOVERNMENT

Linking NGOs and donors with local coastal communities as well as supporting government initiativesMwambao 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 aspirationsMwambao 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 practicesMwambao services help;

• 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

Community services

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

What we do

Read more about what we do, our ethos, our approaches and our impact.

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