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Welcome to the Nairobi Convention

The Nairobi Convention provides a mechanism for regional cooperation, coordination and collaborative actions, and enables the Contracting Parties to harness resources and expertise from a wide range of stakeholders and interest groups towards solving interlinked problems of the coastal and marine environment.

The Nairobi Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region was signed in 1985 and came into force in 1996, making it one of 17 regional seas conventions and action plans.

The Nairobi Convention area extends from Somalia in the north to the Republic of South Africa, covering 10 States, five of which are island States in the Western Indian Ocean. The Contracting Parties are Comoros, France (La Reunion), Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania and the Republic of South Africa. More...

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Kenya State of Coast Report


Towards the Integrated Management of Kenya’s Coastal Marine Resources

This State of the Coast Report 2008 is the first of its kind in Kenya. It describes the status of Kenya’s coastal and marine environment, demographic and resource-use trends, current impacts and threats to sustainability, and management measures to mitigate and prevent continued environmenal degradation.

It proposes measures to mitigate or reverse environmental degradation..

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Nairobi and Abidjan discussion forum
Highlights

 WIO-LaB Project Steering Committee and Nairobi Convention Focal Points Meeting, 7-10 December 2009, Mombasa, Kenya.

    Special 6th Conference of Parties Meeting for the Nairobi Convention and the Conference of Plenipotentiaries for the Nairobi Convention. 29 March-2 April 2010, Nairobi, Kenya

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