mazingira-mcp

Why This Exists

Kenyan projects stall or get fined because NEMA's permit thresholds, EIA requirements and environmental rights are hard to establish up front. Operating without an EIA carries serious penalties, so knowing which category a project falls into is worth more than knowing the law in general.

Install

pip install mazingira-mcp

Tools (5)

• nema_permit_guide — Return Kenya NEMA (National Environment Management Authority) permit requirements and application process.
  _{args: activity_type, county}
• climate_data_guide — Return Kenya climate data, rainfall patterns, and temperature ranges by region.
  _{args: data_type, county}
• conservation_areas — Return information on Kenya national parks, game reserves, and conservation areas.
  _{args: county, area_type}
• environmental_rights_query — Return Kenya citizen environmental rights and violation reporting procedures.
  _{args: topic}
• climate_adaptation_guide —
  _{args: region, sector}

Example

from mazingira_mcp.server import nema_permit_guide

result = nema_permit_guide(project_type='construction')
# permit type, threshold, fee basis, timeline, penalty exposure

Claude Desktop Integration

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mazingira-mcp": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "mazingira_mcp.server"]
    }
  }
}

Data & Disclaimers

Thresholds, fees and penalties reflect NEMA guidance and the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act. Verify current figures at nema.go.ke before budgeting or filing.

Every tool response carries a source field. Responses labelled DEMO are illustrative reference data, not a live feed — verify against the authority named in the response before acting on it.

Part of the East Africa Coordination Stack

This MCP server is part of the Kenya coordination infrastructure. Connect it to africa-coord-bus — the coordination event bus that routes signals between domains automatically.

pip install africa-coord-bus

All servers: pypi.org/user/gmahia Live demo: coord-cascade-demo

IP & Collaboration

MIT licensed. Feedback via GitHub Issues only — pull requests are not accepted. Demo data is labeled DEMO and is not suitable for operational decisions. Full policy: docs/architecture/IP_POLICY.md. Security reports: see SECURITY.md.

Part of the East Africa coordination stack

• Install & run: pip install reli-cli && reli list — the MCP servers on the official MCP Registry under io.github.gabrielmahia
• Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo · dataset · leaderboard
• Coordinate across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
• Datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia · Docs hub: nairobi-stack

Model-agnostic by design: closed APIs, open-weight models, and small distilled models are all first-class citizens.