Blue Ventures has a bold ambition: they’re working to create a world where small-scale fishers have bigger catches, better livelihoods and improved food security, and where healthy oceans teem with life for generations to come. In Madagascar they work to establish and maintain locally managed marine areas (LMMAs), training local community institutions in marine management and governance. These innovations have included establishing community led ecological monitoring and the country’s first mangrove blue carbon project.
Given the lack of basic services in remote coastal regions in Madagascar, they also help communities access basic healthcare through training and supporting women to serve as community health workers. They also incubate Madagascar’s national health-environment network, which brings together 40 partner organizations to address the health needs of communities living in areas of conservation importance across the country.
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