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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

The Legal and Technical Review Meeting on the Draft LBSA Protocol and the Regional Stakeholder workshop on SAP


The first formal Legal and Technical Review Meeting on the Draft Protocol on Land-based Sources and Activities (LBSA Protocol) as well as a Regional Stakeholder workshop regarding the Strategic Action Programme on Land-based Sources and Activities (SAP) will be held on 18 - 21 November 2008, in Cape Town.

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Nairobi and Abidjan discussion forum
Highlights

  The Training Workshop on Ecosystem Approaches to Coastal and Ocean Management was held from 27 Oct - 1 Nov 2008. More..

  Report of the Fifth Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Nairobi Convention. English

  The Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse and Information Sharing System. More..