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Community Rights and Benefits in Mangrove Management in Kenya

In 2024, WWF conducted a review to assess if and to what extent policies make provision for local community rights and benefits in mangrove management in Kenya. The review, which consisted of a desktop policy analysis and stakeholder engagements, culminated in recommendations to strengthen these rights and benefits.

The review highlights that, in Kenya, challenges to realising local community rights and benefits include: tensions arising from multiple and duplicate policies; management committees’ limited term of office; limited institutional and financial capacities to realise community rights and benefits in mangrove management; and insufficient coordination to support community-based organisations. WWF recommends strengthening policy cohesion and implementation, supporting community participation in policy processes and strengthening institutional and financial capacities for local community rights and benefits as they relate to mangrove management.

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Kenya community rights policy brief

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