Kawawana community heritage area: good life recovered through conservation

Photo1__The_Governing_Board_of_APCRM_(Association_des_Pêcheurs_de_la_Communauté_Rurale_de_Mangagoulack)_in_2009.

By: Salatou Sambou

Organisation: Kawawana

Location: Senegal

Published: 18 May 2016

Photo: The Governing Board of APCRM (Association des Pêcheurs de la Communauté Rurale de Mangagoulack) in 2009 © ICCA Consortium

Summary: Kawawana (“our local heritage to be preserved by us all”) is an estuarine territory where the ancient governance and management rules –renovated and agreed upon also by the municipal and regional governments – are finally again respected. With not a cent of outside support, the local fishermen govern, manage and provide much needed surveillance operations for their own Kawawana, which has dramatically recovered in quantity and quality of biodiversity (fish, dolphins, crocodiles, birds…).

To share the wealth of global knowledge on the  aspects of Integrated Ocean Management (IOM) with the 22 countries of the Abidjan Convention’s region, the Mami Wata project takes advantage of existing IOM solutions that have been successfully implemented already. The Blue Solutions presented here are part of and featured on the Marine and Coastal Solutions Portal on the PANORAMA platform. These solutions are being contributed by a broad range of providers from across the planet.