: Utilising Marine Cultural Heritage in East Africa to help develop sustainable social, economic and cultural benefits

“从深处崛起”网络将确定肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚、莫桑比克和马达加斯加的有形水下和沿海海洋文化遗产（MCH）及其相关的非物质方面如何促进该地区合乎道德、包容和可持续的增长。多学科项目团队（在挑战主导的研究和官方发展援助环境中的KE方面经验丰富）将确定MCH如何直接惠及东非社区和当地经济，建立身份，刺激其他收入来源（减少贫困），并提高海洋部门海外援助的价值和影响。随着该区域经济在不断变化的内部动力和外部利益的推动下获得动力，东非正在经历一个深刻变化的时期。该地区的海洋区域是这些发展的核心，海上石油和天然气储量的勘探推动了投资，再加上新港口和已建成港口的主要融资，以促进与海湾国家的贸易。除了来自英国和其他西方国家政府的援助和投资，中国和沙特阿拉伯还在为该地区的重大基础设施和发展项目提供资金。虽然这些发展有可能实现短期的经济、发展和就业效益，但很少考虑到这些工作对该地区水下和沿海遗产的影响。东非新兴的海洋研究刚刚开始揭示整个地区的海洋文化和传统的程度，以及将该海岸与更广阔的印度洋地区联系起来的更广泛的海洋活动的证据。东非的海洋是一个连接器，是通信的促进者，是维持生命的资源的供应者，也是一个植根于沿海人民信仰体系的环境。数千年来，这片海岸一直被嵌入更广泛的政治和社会经济领域，并见证了多次移民、入侵和贸易活动。它的港口城镇和城市与更广泛的商业海洋世界有着内在的联系，确保了它成为历史上最具文化活力和多样性的地区之一。它过去是，并将继续是一个不断变化的地区，并受到各种人为和自然变化的驱动。发展协定很少考虑到文化遗产，尽管获得文化遗产被认为是一项基本人权。东非各国目前几乎没有能力保护或开发其丰富的海洋遗产，因此，妇幼保健的社会经济潜力尚未实现。更糟糕的是，在水下资源受到海洋开发、商业打捞和海洋工业影响的同时，沿海资源也受到建筑和开发工作、气候和环境变化甚至一些绿色能源项目的威胁。妇幼保健是一种脆弱而有限的资源，一旦被破坏就永远无法恢复。该项目将建立并维护一个由艺术和人文学科研究人员、政府官员、科学家、政策制定者、联合国官员、非政府组织、信息通信技术专业人员和遗产、基础设施和离岸产业专家组成的跨界、跨部门网络，以考虑MCH如何在该地区创造持久的社会、经济和文化效益。该项目将为援助背景下的艺术和人文研究确定新的机会和方法，并为沿海基础设施和近海开发项目增加价值。参与的主要机制将通过共同制定研究和环境保护框架、创新项目和环境保护活动。东非沿海国家渴望将自己转变为一个繁荣的海上贸易和投资门户。过去不仅在为这一发展提供信息，而且在帮助推动这一发展方面发挥着积极作用。

The Rising from the Depths network will identify how the tangible submerged and coastal Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar, and its associated intangible aspects, can stimulate, ethical, inclusive and sustainable growth in the region. The multidisciplinary project team (experienced in challenge-led research and KE in ODA environments) will determine ways in which MCH can directly benefit East African communities and local economies, building identity, stimulating alternative sources of income (reducing poverty), and enhancing the value and impact of overseas aid in the maritime sector. East Africa is undergoing a period of profound change as the economy of the region gains momentum, driven by changing internal dynamics and by external interests. The region's maritime zone is central to these developments with offshore exploration for oil and gas deposits driving investment, coupled with major financing of new and established ports to facilitate trade with the Gulf countries. In addition to aid and investment from both the UK and other western governments, China and Saudi Arabia are funding major infrastructural and development projects across the region. While these developments have the potential to realise short-term economic, developmental and employment benefits, there has been little consideration of the impact of this work on the region's submerged and coastal heritage.Nascent maritime research in East Africa is just beginning to reveal the extent of maritime cultures and traditions across the region as well as the evidence for wider maritime activity that connected this coast to the broader Indian Ocean region. The sea in East Africa is a connector, a facilitator of communications, a supplier of resources that sustains life and an environment that is rooted in the belief systems of coastal peoples. For millennia this coast has been embedded within broader political and socio-economic domains, and witness to multiple migrations, invasions and trade activity. Its port towns and cities were intrinsically connected to a wider mercantile maritime world, ensuring it became one of the most culturally dynamic and diverse regions throughout history. It was, and continues to be, a region of continuous transformation and subject to a variety of anthropogenic and natural drivers of change. Development agreements very rarely take account of cultural heritage even though access to it is considered a fundamental human right. East African counties currently have little capacity to protect or explore their rich maritime heritage and, as a result, the socio-economic potential of MCH has yet to be realised. Worse, while the submerged resource is being impacted by marine exploitation, commercial salvage and offshore industry, the coastal resource is being threatened by building and development work as well as climatic and environmental change and even some green-energy projects. MCH is a fragile and finite resource, which once destroyed can never be recovered.This project will establish and maintain a transboundary and cross-sector network of arts and humanities-led researchers, government officers, scientists, policy makers, UN officials, NGOs, ICT professionals and specialists working in heritage, infrastructure and the offshore industry, to consider in what ways MCH can create long-lasting social, economic and cultural benefits in the region. The project will identify new opportunities and methodologies for arts and humanities research in an aid context and add value to coastal infrastructure and offshore development projects. Key mechanisms of engagement will be through the co-production of a Research and KE Framework, Innovation Projects and KE activities.The nations of coastal East Africa have aspirations to transform themselves into a thriving maritime gateway of trade and investment. The past has an active role in not only informing this development but in helping drive it.