Harnessing Kenya’s Blue Economy: prospects and challenges

Rasowo, Joseph; Orina, Paul; Nyonje, Betty; Awuor, Salome; Olendi, R.

doi:10.1080/19480881.2020.1825199

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“…While both Kenya and Tanzania have major ports located in the cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, respectively, the governments of both countries have started to enhance their maritime transportation infrastructure to support economic growth and the expansion of the ocean economy in East Africa (Kanai and Schindler, 2019;Rasowo et al, 2020) (Figure 1). Currently, the ports are being developed north of Mombasa in Lamu County in Kenya, and south of Dar es Salaam in Bagamoyo district in Tanzania.…”

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Policy gaps in the East African Blue economy: Perspectives of small-scale fishers on port development in Kenya and Tanzania

Thoya

Horigue²,

Möllmann³

et al. 2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Recently, the rights of small-scale fishers have increasingly been acknowledged in ocean governance because coastal development and various maritime activities have reduced traditional fishing grounds. More specifically, small-scale fisheries (SSF) are increasingly being threatened by ocean grabbing, pollution, and a lack of inclusiveness in decision-making processes. Although there are guidelines to resolve and reduce conflict, formal avenues to include fisher concerns, particularly in the context of ocean development and governance, remain a difficult task. Moreover, there is insufficient information on how fishers are impacted by coastal and marine development and how their concerns are included in the decision-making process. Hence, this study contributes to the SSF discourse by understanding and describing the characteristics and concerns of small-scale fishers from two coastal towns in East Africa with different levels of port development. Using data from perception surveys, focus group discussions, and participatory mapping, we discuss how fishers were involved in the decision-making processes to develop ports in Lamu, Kenya, and Bagamoyo, Tanzania. We found that fishers rely on nearshore ecosystems such as mangroves and coral reefs because of their accessibility since most fishers only use low-powered boats for fishing. Moreover, we found that the fishers’ livelihoods were severely affected by port development and that they were excluded from the decision-making process concerning the port’s construction and fishers’ compensations. While some fishers believe that new ports in the region can increase their livelihoods by creating new markets and jobs, this is unlikely to happen since most fishers are not qualified to work in formal port-related jobs. We propose three steps that will allow fishermen to participate in port development decision-making processes and contribute to the development of a sustainable SSF. These include improving engagement with fishers to allow meaningful participation in decision-making, developing a blue economy policy focused on SSF, and implementing maritime spatial planning.

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Policy gaps in the East African Blue economy: Perspectives of small-scale fishers on port development in Kenya and Tanzania

Thoya

Horigue²,

Möllmann³

et al. 2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…As a result of these challenges, there were calls to embrace collaboration and knowledge sharing (Rasowo et al, 2020); and to develop and manage a BE database (GOK, 2018). There were additional calls for conducting research on the promotion of investments and development of innovative technologies for value addition in the BE, as well as sensitisation and awareness creation of the population about the BE (GOK, 2018).…”

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Information aggregation as potential for value addition to organizations: A review

Mathew Masinde Egessa,

Cosmas Nzaka Munga,

Teresia Atieno Kochumba

2024

Global J. Eng. Technol. Adv.

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In the development of Kenya Vision 2030 Third Medium Term Plan (MTP III) 2018-2022, the Blue Economy (BE) sector was recognised as one of the emerging economic fronts that are expected to significantly contribute to Kenya’s economic growth. Subsequently, there were calls to develop and manage a BE database. Despite these calls, there is currently no comprehensive database containing BE related data for Kenya, in an accessible manner to the public. As a response to these calls, our research team sought to explore different types of information aggregators. The study adopted exploratory design and reports the review of three aggregators. From the review results, the study proposed the design and development of a digital platform for aggregating information on the BE ecosystem in Kenya. The digital platform provides potential value addition to the host organisation in the form of: attracting external funding; raising its reputation and online visibility and adding value to the community.

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“…Fishing communities, encompassing rural and scattered populations as well as town dwellers, retain repositories of traditional knowledge and practice, maintaining craft traditions that have developed over centuries [104][105][106][107]. Whilst the richness of their MCH requires analysis and record, these communities are currently amongst the poorest in the world and have yet to benefit from the growing national interest across the region in the Blue Economy [108][109][110]. We are conscious of the inadvertent fetishisation and over-romanticisation of these communities, who do not represent living insights into medieval lifeways, but who are instead marginalised, and often lacking voice, in an increasingly hostile environment.…”

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Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa

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The Rising from the Depths (RftD) network aims to identify the ways in which Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) can contribute to the sustainable development of coastal communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. Although the coastal and marine heritage of eastern Africa is a valuable cultural and environmental resource, it remains largely unstudied and undervalued and is subject to significant threat from natural and anthropogenic processes of change. This paper outlines the aims of the RftD network and describes the co-creation of a challenge-led research and sustainability programme for the study of MCH in eastern Africa. Through funding 29 challenge-led research projects across these four Global South countries, the network is demonstrating how MCH can directly benefit East African communities and local economies through building identity and place-making, stimulating resource-centred alternative sources of income and livelihoods, and enhancing the value and impact of overseas aid in the marine sector. Overall, Rising from the Depths aims to illustrate that an integrated consideration of cultural heritage, rather than being a barrier to development, should be positioned as a central facet of the transformative development process if that development is to be ethical, inclusive and sustainable.

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Harnessing Kenya’s Blue Economy: prospects and challenges

Cited by 13 publications

References 54 publications

Policy gaps in the East African Blue economy: Perspectives of small-scale fishers on port development in Kenya and Tanzania

Policy gaps in the East African Blue economy: Perspectives of small-scale fishers on port development in Kenya and Tanzania

Information aggregation as potential for value addition to organizations: A review

Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa

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