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Grants and achievements

• 2024 – Consulting team member Blue Carbon and Sustainable Fishery Potential in Kwale
  County, Kenya- GIZ Nairobi
• 2022- Consulting team member in Elaborating options for a Regional mangrove vision- WWF-Madagascar
  2021 – Development of Guidance on Coastal & Mangrove Indicators and Targets for Inclusion in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework - IUCN
• February 2020 - Competitive Research Grant: Award by Bournemouth University Global Challenge Research Funds (BU GCRF): Mangroves and livelihoods - Embracing changes for a better future.
• May 2019 - Competitive Research Grant: Award by BU Global Challenge Research Funds (GCRF): Understanding changes in mangrove use and climate change knowledge in a coastal community in Lamu, Kenya

• January 2019: Scholarship Award by Bournemouth University to undertake a PhD on Climate Change Impacts on Coastal and Marine Environment in East Africa
• 2018 - Competitive Research Grant: ICRI UN Environment funding to undertake a project ‘Managing mangroves for climate change regulations and other ecosystem services in Kenya”
• 2016 – Competitive Conservation Grant: Award by WWF- US to undertake a conservation workshop on Returning the Loss of Mangrove Forests and Other Ecosystem Services in Mombasa County, Kenya
• 2015 - Competitive Research Grant: MASMA Grant by WIOMSA to conduct Second Course on Mangrove Ecosystems for the Western Indian Ocean Region: Community Based Restoration, Adaptation, Management and Governance Approaches for Mangrove Ecosystems in the WIO region
• 2015 – 2019 Project Coordination – Blue Forest Project - Kenya.

• Blue forest project - Kenya funded by Global Environmental Facility (GEF) – United Nation Environmental Programme (UNEP) led to the development of a Carbon offset project in Vanga Mangrove ecosystem, South Coast Kenya. The project is part of a global GEF project on Standardized methodologies for Carbon Accounting and Ecosystem Services Valuation of Blue Forests, being implemented in Ecuador, Mozambique, Indonesia, Madagascar, Abu Dhabi and Kenya