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Our models translate strategy into structure. Through CLEAR and Matumbawe Hai, AFO moves from projects to platforms creating a replicable path toward ocean prosperity built on inclusion, innovation, and impact. 🌿 Restore Marine Ecosystems ⚖️ Strengthen Governance 💧 Build Climate-Resilient Livelihoods
The CLEAR Model drives AFO’s livelihood transformation agenda.
It is a five-phase, adaptive framework that equips coastal households especially women and youth to participate fully in the blue economy while safeguarding natural resources.
Engage. Build. Finance. Link. Sustain.
Engage – We begin with listening. Through participatory mapping and dialogue, communities co-design solutions that fit their realities.
Build – Strengthening technical capacity in aquaculture, seaweed farming, leadership, and financial literacy.
Finance – Establishment of Eco-groups as Village Savings & Loan Associations(VSLAs) and match their growth with seed capital to catalyze small blue enterprises.
Link – Open markets, connect producers with buyers, digital traceability systems, and policy platforms that validate local effort.
Sustain – Embed monitoring, peer learning, and governance support so success compounds over time.
CLEAR positions livelihoods as both economic engines and conservation incentives.
It is now being replicated across AFO’s seaweed, coral and mangrove value chains proof that inclusive finance and ecological stewardship can grow together.
“CLEAR moves communities from dependency to dignity, from surviving climate shocks to shaping climate solutions.”
The Matumbawe Hai Model integrates coral reef restoration with inclusive community governance, ensuring that the people who rely on marine ecosystems are the ones leading their recovery and management.
This science-based, seven-phase approach transforms degraded coral reefs into thriving ecosystems building new economies through eco-tourism, sustainable fishing, and blue enterprises.
“Every reef restored under Matumbawe Hai becomes a living classroom, where conservation fuels livelihoods and future economies.”
Join us as we scale locally designed models that restore the ocean
and renew livelihoods across Tanzania’s coastlines.
