Following more funding, Save Lamu has been able to continue visiting communities in Lamu County to to document the Lamu County Bio-cultural Community Protocol. The aim of the BCP is to facilitate culturally rooted, participatory decision-making processes within communities with the aim of asserting rights over their communally managed lands and traditional knowledge. Save Lamu plans to visit almost villages and settlements in Lamu County to sensitize local Lamu communities about the port project and collect information about community resource use, cultural practices and concerns over the development project. The collated concerns will also be included in the BCP, which will later be used as a legal tool to obtain community rights as constituted in local and international laws.
The BCP is supported through Natural Justice, which is a not-for-profit organization working with communities to develop their legal capacity to demand social and environmental justice. Its aims are in line with the three main objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, namely: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of the environment, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of natural resources.
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