Enabling and incentivising coastal stewardship: from tools to action

Join IIED and partners for an interactive session at the WIOMSA Scientific Symposium exploring the barriers and solutions to implementing practical tools – such as social protection, subsidies, market solutions and measures to secure tenure rights – that can enable and incentivise fair and effective coastal stewardship.

Case studies from Tanzania, Mozambique and Kenya will set the scene. A dynamic World Café with regional experts and community leaders will follow, giving participants the chance to exchange insights and debate solutions. Together, we will identify priorities to scale models that deliver for people, nature and food systems in the Western Indian Ocean—and advance the Ocean Decade Africa Roadmap.

This is a rare opportunity to engage directly with researchers, practitioners and community leaders shaping the future of coastal stewardship in the Western Indian Ocean.

About the speakers and facilitators

• IIED researchers Jeneen Hadj-Hammou and Annabelle Bladon
• Kokubanza Timanywa, Sustain East Africa
• Julius Francis, WIOMSA
• Abubakar Masoud, Mwambao Coastal Community Network
• Zuwena Silima Ame and Hyrene Emmanuel Kamulas, community leaders from Tanzania
• Simeão Lopes and Manuel Castiano, AABS Mozambique
• With contributions from CORDIO (TBC)

About attending

This event will take place in person only. Please see details for how you can participate below.

In-person participation

This in-person side event is part of the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium in Mombasa, Kenya.

How I can contact the organisers with questions?

If you have any questions about attending the event, please email jeneen.hadj-hammou@iied.org.

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Photo: People and fishing boats in the water around Stone Town, Zanzibar (Credit: Alex Berger via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)