The Blue Empowerment Project aims tackle barriers for the empowerment of fisher women in Kenya's coastal region through adoption of climate-smart integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) of seaweeds and fish for improved livelihoods and resilience. Specific objectives are:
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To profile and document gender responsive challenges, potentials and opportunities for commercial and sustainable adoption of fishseaweeds IMTA for economic development of coastal fisher communities;
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To map socio-technical pathways that can support enabling policies, technology uptake, and governance frameworks for IMTA adoption and women fisherfolk empowerment;
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To design, set-up, test and optimise gender transformative fish-seaweeds IMTA solutions for the socio-economic empowerment, COVID-19 and Climate Change resilience of fisher women;
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To promote knowledge translation, dissemination and learning for IMTA systems upscaling, climate change and COVID-19 response strategies for the local community and women empowerment in Kwale and Kilifi counties.