All posts by Kitty Brayne

In her role as Head of Evidence and Learning, Kitty is responsible for coordinating our global monitoring and evaluation, technical advisory and knowledge development functions. These teams play key roles supporting and embedding learning across the organisation, supporting teams with the technical development of programmes, and generating and documenting evidence for our approaches. Kitty has wide ranging knowledge and experience within Blue Ventures’ programmes, and a passion for supporting teams to develop holistic strategies that embed Blue Ventures core values throughout.

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Don't MissInternationalRebuilding Fisheries

Towards resilience: responding to economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 crisis

With our partners, we are mobilising around the world to help support locally led conservation efforts against the current crisis, safeguarding food security and livelihoods for coastal communities in this turbulent time.

/ Apr 29, 2020
Don't MissLMMAMadagascar

What does kung fu have to do with octopus fishing?

The making of “Tovo the octopus gleaner”, a Vezo film featuring intense kung fu action and a mysterious octopus mermaid designed to spread good fisheries practices!

/ Mar 14, 2017
LMMAVelondriake

Signed, sealed, delivered, I’m your protected area

Creating a new protected area takes time. The members of the Velondriake locally managed marine area (LMMA) management association in southwest Madagascar have been patiently biding theirs for a number of long years. The seven-year journey towards formal government recognition...

/ Aug 18, 2015
AmbanjaBlue ForestsDon't Miss

Making a living from the forests between land and sea

by Kitty Brayne, Country Coordinator, Madagascar  I’m in a fishing village, but I can’t see the sea. Ankazomborona is perched on the edge of a muddy channel separating land from a forbidding forest of twisted mangrove trees, their roots veering...

/ Oct 1, 2014