Exploratory Diving
Members of the KCWA team have been doing exploratory dives off the Kuruwitu coast, mapping and recording potential dive sites. We have found that generally the coral is intact and these are some of the best [...]
Blue Ventures visit Kuruwitu
A 3 day visit to Kuruwitu discussing possibilities of emulating the octopus fisheries that they have been so successful in setting up in Madagascar and other parts of the world. The KCWA in partnership with Blue [...]
SACCO Scheme
We have started a Sacco loan scheme for our members. This will allow the community to start alternative, potentially more lucrative enterprises than fishing and takes the pressure off overfishing in the area
Community welfare
KCWA improves community welfare. Projects include: water to the community, building of shelters for the fishermen, training programmes, school education programmes, assistance to the Kuruwitu womens group and various youth empowerment schemes, employment opportunities and [...]
Training and Education Centre
KCWA wish to build a training centre where we would provide courses to educate communities, schools and universities in areas of marine biodiversity, enterprise and management of marine resources
Co-Management Area (CMA) mapped out
Recently a team from WCS, Kuruwitu Beach Management Unit (KBMU) and KCWA identified and recorded GPS points for the new CMA. The new CMA covers 12 square kilometer area. This follows months of sensitisation sessions [...]
News Updates
Landing site meetings went ahead last month as part of the ongoing process of setting up the co-management area at Kuruwitu, which falls under the Kuruwitu BMU jurisdiction. There are many projects that will focus [...]
Economic empowerment through alternative income generation
We have many existing alternative income generation projects and many plans for more in the future. Presently these include crafts, furniture making, bee-keeping, aquaculture, tourism, a sustainably caught fish enterprise, prawn and octopus farming and [...]
Monitoring and evaluation
Each project is monitored, assessed and evaluated on a regular basis either internally or by experts in the various fields from outside the programmes