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LIVE BLU-E Living Lab of Blue economy and renewable Energy for the development of Kenya’s coastal economy

Kenya

Status

Implementation

Aid type

Project-type interventions

Kenya


Location

-

€ 2,000,000
Committed
€ 0
Used

Description

The fishing sector in Kilifi County, Kenya, is facing significant challenges. The decline in fish stocks, due to climate change and overfishing, threatens the sustainability of the sector. The lack of adequate infrastructure and training limits the communities' ability to access more lucrative markets. Moreover, the deterioration of the coastal ecosystem contributes to reducing the safety of fish products. The project aims to enhance the coastal communities' capacity to adapt to climate change by developing mitigation strategies for sustainable development. The human-environment relationship and the need for virtuous interaction models are fundamental. The protection of biodiversity and the environment is crucial for the harmonious development of communities.The primary source of livelihood for the communities in Kilifi County is fishing and its associated economic system. The exploitation of fish resources and climate change threaten these communities, reducing the quantity and quality of the catch. The lack of training prevents sector stakeholders from enhancing their roles. The initiative builds on the Ecos project, funded by AICS, which helped understand the needs of coastal populations and, through the Blue Economy, develop capacities to exploit resources sustainably. Fishing associations (BMU) and local institutions (Fisheries Division) were supported to promote sustainable fishing techniques. The new intervention aims to promote the conservation, processing, and marketing of fish to ensure access to sufficient and quality food, and diversified and sustainable food production.The project includes the provision of equipment for cold chain management and fish marketing, training, and the development of a marketing strategy for the initiative's sustainability, and support to communities and local institutions by increasing the quantity and quality of fish products, ensuring traceability, health, and safety. To achieve these goals, actors with specific expertise were involved. The Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences of the University of Bologna (DIMEVET) will create a basic control system to identify and reduce health risks related to fish consumption through analysis and sampling. Additionally, it will assess the ecosystem's health by investigating heavy metals and microplastics in various food matrices to provide local authorities with useful tools for designing an integrated and ecological management system.The Department of Renewable Energies of the Polytechnic University of Milan (PoliMi), in collaboration with an Italian private company Off Grid Sun (OGS) and an innovative start-up eNextGen, will provide technical expertise for setting up solar energy production systems for the BMUs involved in the initiative to ensure better management of fish productions. PoliMi, OGS, and eNextGen have worked and will continue to work together to study the sizing, oversee installation, and develop an innovative and smart sustainability management strategy for the plants.Collaboration with local institutions (Fisheries Division and KMFRI), both during the needs assessment and project implementation phases, ensures the initiative's effectiveness and allows the project to gain institutional recognition within the communities. WE&B, with the development of Living Labs, will ensure the project ownership by the communities and local stakeholders. CAST and GuardAvanti (GA), with their experience developed locally and the close relationship established with the fishing communities, will handle community mobilization and ensure the social sustainability of the initiative. read more close
Year Committed Used
2025 € 2,000,000 € 0

Agency

Type Name Channel code
Government AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development 11000

Channel reported

Type Name Channel code
National NGO CENTRO PER UN APPROPRIATO SVILUPPO TECNOLOGICO – CAST ONG 22000

Project data

  • IATI IdentifierXM-DAC-6-4-013244-07-6
  • AID013244/07/6
  • Planned start 2025/05/01
  • Planned End 2028/04/30
  • Actual start -
  • Actual end -
  • Bi/Multilateral Bilateral
  • Status Implementation
  • Tied status Tied

Sectors

  • 23631 - Electric power transmission and distribution (isolated mini-grids) 20.0%
  • 25030 - Business development services 20.0%
  • 31310 - Fishing policy and administrative management 10.0%
  • 31391 - Fishery services 20.0%
  • 43073 - Food safety and quality 30.0%

Policy markers

  • Gender Equality significant objective
  • Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) not targeted
  • Disability not targeted
  • Nutrition significant objective
  • Aid to Environment principal objective
  • Participatory Development/Good Governance significant objective
  • Trade Development significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation significant objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation principal objective
  • Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification not targeted
  • Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) not targeted

SDGs

  • 10.1 - By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
  • 12.3 - By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
  • 12.a - Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
  • 2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
  • 2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
  • 3.9 - By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
  • 6.6 - By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
  • 8.2 - Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
  • 8.3 - Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
  • 8.4 - Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead
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