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Welcome to the Nairobi Convention

The Nairobi Convention provides a mechanism for regional cooperation, coordination and collaborative actions, and enables the Contracting Parties to harness resources and expertise from a wide range of stakeholders and interest groups towards solving interlinked problems of the coastal and marine environment.

The Nairobi Convention for the Protection, Management and Development of the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Eastern African Region was signed in 1985 and came into force in 1996, making it one of 17 regional seas conventions and action plans.

The Nairobi Convention area extends from Somalia in the north to the Republic of South Africa, covering 10 States, five of which are island States in the Western Indian Ocean. The Contracting Parties are Comoros, France (La Reunion), Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania and the Republic of South Africa. More...

In Focus

Draft Strategic Action Programme for the Protection of the Coastal and Marine Environment of the Western Indian Ocean from Land-based Sources and Activities


The Strategic Action Programme is a negotiated policy document which identifies actions in terms of policy, legal and institutional reforms and investments needed to address priority transboundary problems in the Western Indian Ocean region.

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Nairobi and Abidjan discussion forum
Highlights

  The 6th WIO-LaB Project Steering Committee Meeting was held in Seychelles, 9 to 11 March 2009. More..

  The Legal and Technical Review Meeting on the Draft LBSA Protocol and workshop regarding the SAP More..

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