The future of the Tanzanian coastline: the AFO story 2016 to 2026
Action For Ocean
Ten years of the organisation told through the coastline it works on, from the first seaweed plots to four seascapes and a strategy running to 2030.
Organisational memory
Broadcast segments, documentaries, podcasts, magazine features, press coverage, research papers, awards and conference sessions that have carried the work of Tanzania's coastal communities to a wider audience. 51 records, filterable by year and by type.
Action For Ocean
Ten years of the organisation told through the coastline it works on, from the first seaweed plots to four seascapes and a strategy running to 2030.
DW
Deutsche Welle followed the dive team into the reefs off Kilwa, where coral fragments are grown in underwater nurseries and replanted on degraded sites, and where…
Featuring Husna Amimu
Daily Maverick
On the case for African conservation told by African scientists who can also tell a story, with Nancy Iraba cited as a National Geographic Explorer and…
Featuring Nancy Iraba
IDEASS
IDEASS published the dive lab as an innovation case study for south to south cooperation, in English and in Spanish, describing the all women cohort and…
Our Ocean Conference
Recorded at the eleventh Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, where AFO put the case for financing that reaches the first mile of the coast.
Mongabay
David Akana reports from Mombasa on the African organisations carrying the weight of the global 30x30 target. Jerry Mang'ena sets out the 3C model and the…
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
ORRAA
The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance sets out how young Tanzanian and Kenyan organisations are rebuilding the seaweed value chain, and where AFO sits inside…
Action For Ocean
The full recording of the online launch of the 2026 to 2030 strategic plan, including the goals and the four seascape commitments.
Action For Ocean
Conservation presented through dress, craft and performance in Kilwa, on the argument that a message carried by culture travels further than a message carried by a…
Tanzania Fashion Forum
A panel at the Tanzania Fashion Forum 2026 connecting seaweed and the blue economy to the country's fashion and design sector.
Forbes
Brianna Randall on Nancy Iraba, Tanzania's first female divemaster, and what changes about a reef when the people protecting it come from the coast rather than…
Featuring Nancy Iraba
Ocean & Coastal Management
Baraka P. Nyangoko and Jerry Mang'ena on how fishers, farmers, officials and project staff each read the mangrove blue carbon project and the livelihoods offered alongside…
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
WIOMSA
AFO's session at the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium on what the octopus closures in Kilwa have actually produced, and what is still stalling.
WIOMSA
The Matumbawe Hai approach to reef restoration presented to the regional marine science community at WIOMSA 2025.
Featuring Esther Mhamila
Action For Ocean
A university intern on what changes when a young Tanzanian gets into the water for the first time with real training behind them.
Featuring Baraka
New York Climate Week
AFO on the Spotlight Africa stage at New York Climate Week, making the case for community held conservation finance.
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025
Speaker profile for the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, where Jerry Mang'ena appeared across three sessions.
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
3BL Media
The foundation's announcement of its grant round, naming AFO among the partners funded to widen access to finance in coastal communities.
Ocean Opportunities
AFO's entry in the Ocean Connections directory, the sector listing of organisations working on ocean livelihoods and conservation.
Action For Ocean
From the DiveLab Diaries series, on why local certification matters more to reef recovery than visiting expertise.
Action For Ocean
The case for seaweed as both a livelihood for coastal women and a form of ecosystem protection, set out by AFO's executive director.
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
1:39
ORRAA
ORRAA's short film on the mangrove carbon project, embedded on its own project page.
5:42
Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market's film on village savings and loan associations as a route out of poverty, drawing on the groups AFO supports on the Tanzanian coast.
Rare, UN Ocean Conference 2025
AFO on the programme at the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, in Rare's session on getting finance to the communities who manage coastal resources.
Nature
Nature's career series profiles Amenipa Kyando, an aquatic scientist at Aqua-Farms Organization in Dar es Salaam, on working alongside the women farming seaweed on the Fumba…
Featuring Amenipa Lawi Kyando
19:06
BBC Africa Daily
Alan Kasujja speaks to Pragna and Noel Kok of NEWF and to Nancy Iraba, a marine scientist from Tanzania, about her route into wildlife filmmaking and…
Featuring Nancy Iraba
Maliasili
Maliasili's standing profile of AFO as a partner organisation, covering the model, the four seascapes and the headline impact figures.
Paxtier
A global seaweed industry roundup picking up the Africa Fair Seaweed Finance Facility and its target of mobilising 50 million dollars by 2029.
National Geographic Society
Nancy Iraba named among the recipients of the 2024 Wayfinder Award, presented by National Geographic with Kia, recognising emerging leaders in exploration, science and storytelling.
Featuring Nancy Iraba
NEWF
Nature, Environment and Wildlife Filmmakers on using virtual reality to carry marine conservation to people who will never dive, with AFO's underwater work as the worked…
Featuring Nancy Iraba
One Young World
Nancy Iraba's standing profile as a One Young World Ambassador.
Featuring Nancy Iraba
1:51
Action For Ocean
A short film following Musa, a marine ranger on the shore at Buyuni in Kigamboni, from the life he was living to the work he took…
Global Center on Adaptation
The Locally Led Adaptation Hub set out AFO's microcredit model for seaweed farmers as a case of adaptation finance that reaches the people doing the adapting.
Segal Family Foundation
The foundation's profile of AFO through the African Visionary Fellowship, including the Tides of Change film about Musa the marine ranger.
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
United Republic of Tanzania
Tanzania's national action plan for marine turtles names Jerry Mang'ena, Executive Director of Aqua-Farms Organization, at number 27 in Annex B, its list of individual contributors,…
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
Marine Policy
Maskaeva, Failler, Cowaloosur, Lallemand and Mang'ena apply the UNECA valuation toolkit to Tanzania's blue economy, with Jerry Mang'ena listed under Aqua-Farms Organization.
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
SeafoodSource
Trade press coverage of the Africa Fair Seaweed Finance Facility and its target of reaching 25,000 women seaweed farmers across Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.
Convergence Finance
The Convergence design funding grant listing for the facility that became the Africa Fair Seaweed Finance Facility.
ORRAA
ORRAA's quarterly newsletter carried the field visit by its leadership to Tanzania, alongside AFO's mangrove carbon work and the seaweed farming microcredit scheme.
National Geographic Society
National Geographic's Africa Refocused cohort, naming Nancy Iraba among ten storytellers backed to tell the continent's environmental stories from the inside.
Featuring Nancy Iraba
Bright Tides
AFO chosen as one of twelve ventures worldwide for the Bright Tides Blue Carbon Accelerator, from a field of more than forty interviewed.
World Centric
World Centric's Earth Matters feature on the restoration work it funds through AFO, published around World Oceans Day.
ORRAA
ORRAA's standing project page for the mangrove carbon work, crediting the UK Blue Planet Fund and the Government of Canada, and recording the seedlings restored and…
Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science
Iraba, Yahya, Mang'ena and Malesa on captive growth and survival in Octopus cyanea, with Aqua-Farms Organization carried as an author affiliation alongside the University of Dar…
Featuring Nancy Iraba, Jerry Mang'ena
UNFCCC Climate Champions
The UNFCCC Climate Champions published AFO's mangrove carbon market work as a Race to Resilience case study, as an example of locally led climate finance on…
Medicopress
An early profile of the two marine scientists behind the seaweed work that later became Healthy Seaweed Co and the seaweed strand of AFO's livelihoods programme.
Featuring Nancy Iraba
IUCN
IUCN announced the regional mangrove reforestation partnership that the mangrove blue carbon work in Tanzania grew out of.
Marine Technology Society Journal
Blandina Lugendo and Jerry Mang'ena on what it takes to protect the estuaries of the Western Indian Ocean, in the Marine Technology Society Journal.
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
Akina Mama wa Afrika
Akina Mama wa Afrika's profile of Nancy Iraba, from her time at Aqua Farms Organization, in its pan-African women's leadership network.
Featuring Nancy Iraba
Journal of Rural Studies
A four country comparison built on 835 fisherfolk surveyed, asking whether community level initiatives and national policy are pulling in the same direction. Jerry Mang'ena is…
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
UN Economic Commission for Africa
The UNECA technical report behind the Marine Policy paper, commissioned by the Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa and written by Jerry Mang'ena of Aqua-Farms Organization with…
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
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