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Community Action Planning seeks to strengthen capabilities of people to come up with relevant actions aligned to their situation, resources, problems, capacities and needs of communities (Sola et al. 2017; UNDP u.d, TCCO 1995). Community Action Plans (CAPs) provide a roadmap for implementing the activities that are decided by the community itself. It can therefore serve as a framework for change and strengthen well-being, as it offers a guiding principle for implementing programs with multi-stakeholder engagement. In collaboration with implementing partners, DAA, UCC and TRY, ICRAF conducted CAP activities in the Densu and Narkwa in Ghana, and Bulock and Tanbi/Lamin in The Gambia. This work builds on the Women’s Shellfishers and Food Security project Phase I, whereby ICRAF used a visioning approach to engage communities in these sites, to reflect on their situation and aspirations for the land-seascape domains (Duguma et al. 2022a; Duguma et al 2022b). As a tool to design community development interventions, CAPs help to identify (1) what will be done; (2) who will do it; and (3) how it will be done. During this current phase of the project implementation, the objectives of interlinked activities on mangrove ecosystems restoration and conservation are to: 1) Appraise priority challenges and solutions to develop mangrove conservation, restoration, and food portfolios. 2) Develop community owned action plans to improve shellfisheries, mangrove ecosystems, and food security. 3) Conduct participatory mapping of project areas of influence and activities as they relate to mangrove use and management. 4) Provide technical support on nursery development, and mangrove and other tree germplasm acquisition to support mangrove restoration and conservation.
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- Carsan, S., Darko Obiri, B. Bah, A., McMullin, S., Muthee, K.
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- World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya and Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. Narragansett, RI, USA.
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