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Lake vista — Lake Tanganyika, looking at Luama-Katanga-Mt Kabobo Key Biodiversity Area.

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The African Great Lakes Summit: Improving Conservation in the African Great Lakes Through Cross-Basin Collaboration

Grantee Name: The Nature Conservancy

Hotspot: Eastern Afromontane
Location: Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, United Republic of, Zambia
Amount: $164,000
Dates: Jun 2015 – Jun 2017
Keywords: Habitat conservation and management, Networks, Water management

Promote cooperative and collaborative conservation management by countries in the African Great Lakes Region by establishing an African Great Lakes Summit Advisory Committee and Technical Committee, organizing an African Great Lakes Summit and creating a web-based African Great Lakes information platform.

Strategic Direction :

1 Mainstream biodiversity into wider development policies, plans and projects to deliver the co-benefits of biodiversity conservation, improved local livelihoods and economic development in priority corridors.

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The African Great Lakes Summit: Improving Conservation in the African Great Lakes Through Cross-Basin Collaboration

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