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USAID AT OUR OCEAN CONFERENCE 2024

Climate Change

Fact Sheet – April 16, 2024

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Victorine Tafara fishes on the Belo sur Mer coast. The head of her household,
she has become one of the few female leaders in the fishing industry in Belo sur
Mer. In 2020, Victorine attended the FisherWomen Leadership Program organized by
USAID through Hay Tao (‘know how’ in Malagasy), a five-year project working
towards effective community-based management and protection of biodiversity
resources in Madagascar. Victorine credits her experience with giving her the
confidence, knowledge, and motivation to become a leader in her community. “The
training gave me the idea to create an association for fisherwomen—Ampela
mpanjono miavaka,” she says. Since its inception, Ampela mpanjono miavaka
(“distinguished fisherwomen” in Malagasy) has grown to 67 members, all from the
Belo sur Mer fishing community.
Nicky Rakotondrazafy / USAID


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At the April 15–17, 2024 Our Ocean Conference in Athens, Greece, the U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID) announced more than $103 million in
funding to conserve and protect our oceans, subject to Congressional
notification. This includes funding for several new activities, as well as
additional funding for ongoing initiatives which had been announced previously.



PRIORITY AREAS

These initiatives support USAID and Our Ocean Conference priority areas by
identifying solutions to improve management of marine resources, increasing
ocean resilience to climate change, and safeguarding ocean health for
generations to come. USAID commitments address the following Our Ocean
Conference areas of action:

 1. Marine Pollution
 2. Marine Protected Areas 
 3. Sustainable Blue Economies
 4. Sustainable Fisheries
 5. Climate Change


NEW ACTIVITIES USAID LAUNCHED AT THIS YEAR’S OUR OCEAN CONFERENCE


BLUE PACIFIC YOUTH INITIATIVE

USAID announced $400,000 for the Blue Pacific Youth Initiative, a Peace Corps
initiative to engage Pacific Islander youth as caretakers and advocates for
their ocean continent and home. Peace Corps Volunteers will work with youth and
other partners on activities such as elevating climate literacy, bolstering
community adaptation projects, and reinforcing disaster mitigation plans. 


COMBATING WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING PROGRAM

USAID announced $1 million to protect illegally traded wildlife, including sea
life, by reducing illegal collection and poaching activities in the Caribbean
linked to international trade demands. The program bolsters enforcement,
enhances international coordination, and raises awareness to mitigate wildlife
crime tied to global markets with high demand for sea life sold for food,
jewelry, souvenirs, pets, and traditional medicines and tonics.


COUNTERING NATURE CRIME

USAID announced $353,000 to uncover and combat illegal fishing in seafood supply
chains globally through the Countering Nature Crime activity. The activity will
collaborate with a variety of partners to reveal and combat illegal fishing in
major seafood supply chains, build awareness and solutions for the seafood
industry to better fight illegal fishing, and improve technologies to deter
illegal fishing.


MELANESIAN YOUTH CLIMATE CORPS

USAID announced more than $4.4 million to establish a Melanesian Youth Climate
Corps with partner Social Solutions International. This program will work to
equip young people in Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea with
the skills, knowledge, and resources they need to advance disaster risk
reduction and climate adaptation efforts in their own communities.


RESILIENT INCLUSIVE ABUNDANCE IN KEY ECOSYSTEMS

USAID announced $2.4 million to ensure that resilient and empowered communities
inherit and maintain biodiverse marine ecosystems in Madagascar. USAID Resilient
Inclusive Abundance in Key Ecosystems supports sustainable management of marine
natural resources and protected areas, including through improved governance and
anti-corruption efforts of marine and coastal ecosystems, such as coral reefs,
mangroves, and seagrass.


SOUTHEAST ASIA FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP

USAID announced $1.8 million, subject to Congressional notification, to improve
and sustainably manage fisheries and aquaculture practices and productions in
Southeast Asia. As part of the larger Sustainable Fish Asia project, the
activity strengthens the adoption and implementation of sustainable fisheries
policies, promotes the adoption of sustainable fishing and aquaculture
practices, and increases the technical capacity of fisheries agencies.


SUSTAINABLE CORAL TRIANGLE

USAID announced $1.2 million, subject to Congressional notification, to improve
the management of marine biodiversity and fisheries resources in a changing
climate in the Indo-Pacific region. As part of the larger Sustainable Fish Asia
project, USAID Sustainable Coral Triangle will advance regional sustainable
fisheries management by implementing regional policy frameworks, strengthening
local communities’ climate change resilience, and increasing investments in
marine biodiversity conservation. USAID’s partnership with the Regional
Secretariat of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food
Security through this activity further strengthens a vital regional institution.


SUSTAINABLE FINANCING FOR REGIONAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM

USAID announced $2 million to ensure that the conservation of ecosystems in the
Caribbean region is safeguarded through sustainable financing via support of
National Conservation Trust Funds, National Trust Fund grantees, and other
grantees. Key objectives include consolidating governance structures,
establishing diverse funding mechanisms, improving grant management, and
fostering a network for sharing best practices among regional trust funds.


FUNDING FOR ONGOING ACTIVITIES LAUNCHED BY USAID AT PREVIOUS OUR OCEAN
CONFERENCES OR OTHER FORA


CENTRAL AMERICA REGIONAL COASTAL BIODIVERSITY PROJECT

USAID announced an additional $1.7 million for the Regional Coastal Biodiversity
Project in Central America, which supports policy reforms and environmentally
sustainable business and education opportunities, such as sustainable business
planning for fisheries and ecotourism companies in Honduras, El Salvador and
Guatemala. The activity now totals $3.9 million and focuses on the transboundary
coastal ecosystems of the Rio Paz (El Salvador and Guatemala), Rio Motagua
(Guatemala and Honduras), and the Honduran Miskito Karataska Lagoon System.


CONSERVING COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS

The United States announced an additional $2 million for the Conserving Coastal
Ecosystems activity in Honduras, which aims to improve coastal ecosystem
management to protect biodiversity, promote climate change adaptation and
mitigation, and generate economic opportunity and resilience for Indigenous
Peoples (Garifuna and Pech people) and other local communities. The activity now
totals $5.4 million and will benefit at least 10,000 women, men, and youth in
high-migration municipalities near priority coastal wetland systems—including
their fisheries, estuaries, lagoons, mangroves, marshes, and mud, sand and salt
flats—covering 150,000 hectares along Honduras’ Pacific and Caribbean coasts and
Bay Islands.


HABLA TIBURÓN

USAID committed $3.3 million for Habla Tiburón to decrease the catch and
mortality of sharks and rays in the Ecuadorian Exclusive Economic Zone,
including the Galapagos archipelago. The program will address governance gaps in
legislation, develop an innovative governance framework, and deploy social and
economic strategies to improve shark and ray conservation, including
implementing new trading schemes to improve the value of sea products that have
low impact on populations of sharks and rays.


SAVE OUR SEAS INITIATIVE

USAID committed an additional $62.5 million for the Save Our Seas Initiative,
which advances the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act. The funding supports efforts to combat
marine plastic pollution through global, regional and country programs in
Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. With this
commitment of $62.5 million, in addition to the $40.5 million announced at the
2023 Our Ocean Conference, total funding for the Save Our Seas Initiative has
reached $103 million since FY 2021.


USAID CARIBBEAN SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS ACTIVITY

USAID committed $5.8 million to leverage private sector engagement in the
management of coastal and marine biodiversity in the Caribbean. Key areas of
focuses of the Caribbean Sustainable Ecosystems Activity include preserving
vital ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass beds, and coral reefs, along with
safeguarding diverse communities of invertebrates, sharks, rays, reef fish,
marine turtles, and marine mammals, with a specific emphasis on manatees.


USAID HESHIMU BAHARI (RESPECT THE OCEAN)

USAID committed $13.4 million, subject to Congressional notification, towards
protecting important coral reef habitat and strengthening community fisheries in
Tanzania. Heshimu Bahari aims to establish an enabling environment and
science-driven framework for sustainable Marine Protected Area and wild-caught
fishery co-management by government, communities, and the private sector.


WOMEN SHELLFISHERS AND FOOD SECURITY

USAID announced an additional $817,540, subject to the availability and
Congressional notification of funds, for the Women Shellfishers and Food
Security activity. The activity supports women shellfishers and mangrove
conservation in The Gambia and Ghana, while producing research and a toolkit to
broaden technical capacity across the continent.

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USAID AT OUR OCEAN CONFERENCE 2023

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At the March 2–3, 2023 Our Ocean Conference in Panama City, Panama, the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID) announced funding for 12 new and
ongoing initiatives totaling more than $84 million, subject to the availability
of funds and Congressional notifications, to conserve and protect our oceans.




CLIMATE CHANGE

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USAID plays a vital role in mitigating climate change and addressing its impacts
by working with partner countries to implement ambitious emissions reduction
measures, protect critical ecosystems, transition to renewable energy, build
resilience against the impacts of climate change, and promote the flow of
capital toward climate-positive investments.




SAVE OUR SEAS INITIATIVE

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GLOBAL, 2022–ONGOING – The Save Our Seas Initiative is a USAID initiative to
combat ocean plastic pollution globally. It includes 14 national and regional
USAID programs in key countries and regions contributing to the flow of plastic
waste into the ocean.






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