Community & Heritage
Fatou Janha Mboob
Oyster-women organiser and conservation leader
A Gambian legacyFatou Janha Mboob helped organise Gambian oyster harvesters into the TRY Oyster Women’s Association in 2007. The association connected women’s livelihoods with mangrove conservation, literacy, finance and safer harvesting practices. Its work in the Tanbi wetlands received the UNDP Equator Prize in 2012, bringing international recognition to community-led coastal management.
THEIR MARK ON HISTORY
01Helped establish the TRY Oyster Women's Association in 2007.
02Led an association recognised with the UNDP Equator Prize in 2012.
SOURCES & FURTHER READING01University of Rhode Island Coastal Resources Center02Global Environment Facility, 2012
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