Aga Khan Foundation targets Kenya in Indian Ocean restoration drive

The Aga Khan Foundation’s ReGeneration initiative targets Kenya and five other Indian Ocean locations to restore 150,000 hectares of coastal ecosystems.
The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) has launched a ten-year initiative, ReGeneration, to restore nature across six countries in the Indian Ocean region.
The Aga Khan Foundation’s ReGeneration initiative targets Kenya and five other Indian Ocean locations to restore 150,000 hectares of coastal ecosystems.
ReGeneration works in six countries home to globally important mangrove forests and with communities highly exposed to climate change. Its work reaches up to around 100 kilometres inland, to farming communities whose land, water and livelihoods are linked to the coast.

 

The initiative will link nature restoration and economic development, creating sustainable livelihoods and new economic opportunities for the region’s 2 billion people while protecting and restoring critical ecosystems.
Over the next decade, ReGeneration aims to combat this by restoring 150,000 hectares of mangrove and coastal ecosystems. It will also support regenerative agriculture, sustainable fisheries, clean energy and enterprise development across six countries bordering the Indian Ocean.
The initiative covers Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, India, Mayotte and Mozambique.
Rising temperatures, changing rainfall, more frequent and severe cyclones, floods and droughts, declining fish stocks and the loss of mangrove forests are putting livelihoods, food security and resilience at risk.
The initiative will support communities on the frontline of climate change to restore critical natural environments while creating new sources of income, jobs and economic opportunity. By linking healthier ecosystems with stronger local economies, ReGeneration seeks to demonstrate that environmental restoration and community prosperity can reinforce one another.
Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan said the world has a shared responsibility to care for oceans and the communities living along their coastlines. “As part of the fight against climate change, our institutions are regenerating the shores of the Indian Ocean so that those who depend on them can thrive for generations to come,” he said during the launch in New York.
The Aga Khan Foundation’s ReGeneration initiative targets Kenya and five other Indian Ocean locations to restore 150,000 hectares of coastal ecosystems.
Coastal communities have been the custodians of the ecosystems they depend on for centuries.
– AKF

An early milestone in ReGeneration came in May 2026, when the Aga Khan Foundation and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), representing the French Republic, signed a €100 million declaration to support joint efforts to protect and restore coastal ecosystems across the Indian Ocean region, beginning in Mayotte, Madagascar and Tanzania.

The Aga Khan Foundation’s ReGeneration initiative targets Kenya and five other Indian Ocean locations to restore 150,000 hectares of coastal ecosystems.
Through a consortium of partners, AKF’s AgroVida programme is revitalising food production systems, seeking to enhance agricultural sustainability and foster economic empowerment for small-scale food producers across Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, tapping into the vast potential that has long remained dormant.
AKF / H2N

 

The declaration, made in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron and His Highness the Aga Khan, anchors this wider ambition to drive $500 million of investment into this critical but neglected ecosystem.
The programme is also being brought to life through a new series of films produced in partnership with Open Planet Studios. Filmed initially in Kenya and India and narrated by Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan, the first ReGeneration film explores the relationship between nature, livelihoods and economic opportunity through the experiences of the communities at the heart of the programme.
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