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Youth speaking up about gender dynamics in marine systems. Powerful. #COP12

History of the Nairobi Convention. 40 years. #COP12

Women not as beneficiaries but as project designers. #COP12

Hope everyone is enjoying the Nairobi Convention COP12 as much as me!

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Ten nations united by the Western Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa. Proud to be a WIO practitioner

Tomorrow at #COP12. 12 noon. Linkages between terrestrial and marine ecosystems for livelihoods

Mwambao Coastal Community Network Tanzania presenting at #COP12 on how to build successful livelihood initiatives in small-scale fishing communities in collaboration with COMRED Kenya and WIOMSA

Representing Mwambao at tge Nairobi Convention Conference of the Parties in Dar es Salaam Tanzania #COP12

O'Leary @jennifermarine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happening now at #COP12! COMRED (Kenya) and Mwambao (Tanzania) working with WIOMSA (Regional) to create a WIO-wide community of practice around Diversified Livelihoods.

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Community led mangrove outplanting bring change in mangrove forests in northern Tanzania!

O'Leary @jennifermarine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Couldn't agree more with this post by Nirmal Shah. Solving this challenge has driven many of my recent career decisions

O'Leary @jennifermarine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Mwambao is supporting communities in northern Tanzania with restoring degraded mangrove forests and related livelihoods like mangrove honey

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O'Leary @jennifermarine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mwambao Coastal Community Network is in the mountains of Tanzania this week for our annual planning meeting. Full team in attendance!

O'Leary @jennifermarine.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Communities in Northern Tanzania have been working hard to nurture coral fragments already broken off reefs and then outlast them to degraded areas. The corals are looking great! #Mwambao

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Where else do you get a community leader having a dance party with the leaders of @blueactionfund.org ? #OurOceansConference of course! Loving the team spirit

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First MPA declared in Ghana! Community supported initiative

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Loving connecting with power women and old friends of Kenya and the Western Indian Ocean. #OurOceanConference

I'm a Proud Honorary Warden of the Kenya Wildlife Service for 20 years #OurOceansConference

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Celebrating Kenyan coastal culture at #OurOceanConference in my beautiful city Mombasa

Mwambao Coastal and Community Network's Juma Gola sharing lessons on local and indigenous leadership in marine conservation at #OurOceanCinference

At #OurOceansConference in Mombasa? Look for the blue scarves worn by Maliasili partners- locally grown NGOs supporting bottom-up change in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean 🌊

So proud that this year's Our Oceans Conference is happening in my favourite place...Mombasa, Kenya. Proud of my home city!