About Us
Mission Statement
The Tana Delta GREENHEART” project will transform the lives of people living within and around the Tana Delta by promoting sustainable economic growth and protection of the environment, creating new jobs and livelihoods, and boosting the regional and national economy.
Our Objectives
Promote the sustainable production, processing, and marketing of products from the Tana River Delta to create wealth and employment, improve local community welfare and livelihoods, and enhance biodiversity conservation.
Based on the Tana River Delta Land Use Plan recommendations, the Tana River Delta Green Heart Initiative emphasizes preserving critical relationships between communities, natural resources and biodiversity to strengthen economic activity, reduce poverty, improve human welfare and protect the environment. The Tana River Green Heart Initiative seeks to enhance biodiversity protection, promote conservation-linked enterprises and develop green value chains. The Tana River Green Heart Initiative seeks to enhance biodiversity protection, promote conservation-linked enterprises and develop green value chains.
The Tana River Delta Green Heart Project offers a vision for the future and a means of achieving this goal within the next thirty years. This project is a collaboration between the Tana River and Lamu County Governments, national agencies and international partners to:
Create wealth in a sustainable manner
Safeguard vital wetlands and other habitats in Tana River Delta
Boost the livelihoods of the 120,000 Tana River Delta inhabitants
The Tana River Delta Green Heart Project is designed around Vision 2030, two key elements of the President’s Big Four Agenda (agriculture and manufacturing), the development plans for Tana River and Lamu County Governments, the Tana River Delta Land Use Plan and the Kenya National Agriculture Investment Plan. It also takes into consideration the latest thinking on planning for sustainable development, adaptation to global warming, and related financial investment priorities.
The Tana River Delta Green Heart Project has two elements; a Green Heartland (the entire Tana Delta, measuring 130,000 ha) and an industrial park.
The Green Heart Targets
