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Mikoko Pamoja

Community-based mangrove conservation and restoration project in Gazi Bay that sells blue carbon credits under the Plan Vivo standard. It was the world's first blue carbon project to trade mangrove credits; revenues fund both forest monitoring and replanting and community projects for water, school books and education.

Young green seedlings sprouting in a black plastic nursery tray

illustrative atlas image · Eleonora Sky / Pexels

AFAssociation for Coastal Ecosystem Services (ACES)ngo KMKenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI)government PVPlan Vivo Foundationngo JKJames Kairo MHMark Huxham

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01 How it works

method · Blue carbon accounting and verification under the Plan Vivo standardmethod · Participatory community-based mangrove management (co-management)tool · Plan Vivo standard (voluntary carbon credits)tool · Payments for ecosystem services (PES)

02 What it stands on

Evidence level

Own experience

Grounded in published theory

Documented evidence elsewhere

Independently evaluated here

Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.

The evidence 3 ›

EvidenceMikoko Pamoja: A Demonstrably Effective Community-Based Blue Carbon Project in KenyaCapítulo 24 en 'Sustainable Development, Leadership, and Innovations' (CRC Press). Copia en ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345515946 · 2019

EvidenceMikoko Pamoja (Kenya) - Equator Initiative Case StudyUNDP Equator Initiative · 2020

EvidenceKeys to successful blue carbon projects: Lessons learned from global case studiesMarine Policy, Elsevier · 2016

03 Go to the source

Visit the official site ↗mikokopamoja.org