Meanwhile in Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼....
Roll out of grievance mechanism within PRCM's project area (minimum standard for all @blueactionfund projects)

Join our Q&A to learn more about our latest Call focusing on the 'Eastern Tropical Pacfic Region'.
📅 Date: 8 May 2024
🕒 Times: 16:00 – 17:30pm (CEST)
📝 Register: ogy.de/e6mu
💡 More info also here: tinyurl.com/BlueActionETP2…

Meanwhile in Ecuador🇪🇨...

Funding opportunity: RISE is looking to fund 6 projects in 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇩🇪🇨🇬🇭🇬🇹🇮🇩🇰🇪🇲🇬🇲🇽🇲🇿🇵🇬🇵🇪🇵🇭🇹🇭🇹🇿🇻🇳or 🇿🇲
addressing gender-based violence & environment linkages, each💵100-400K. Deadline 7 June. ➡️ogy.de/8ppj
#OceanOptimism funded by USAID & Norad

Hope you discussed plenty of marine #30x30 incl. contribution by BlueActionFund 😎
#OceanOptimism SteffiLemke David Cooper

📢🇩🇪 Bundesentwicklungsministerium stärkt weiter Meeresschutz, betrachtet BlueActionFund als Best Practice & möchte diesen weiter skalieren...
Strategiepapier ➡️tinyurl.com/58hj63jb
🙏Svenja Schulze Jochen Flasbarth Sebastian Unger

What kind of projects do we fund? Dive into this fantastic arcgis story from our partner Fauna & Flora, Oikos & Fundação Príncipe & their work in São Tomé & Príncipe 🇸🇹... 👇
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/265305…

Upcoming: Team to do a 'familiarisation session with our Environmental & Social Safeguard Systems' to prospective grantees in Asia... 🇧🇩🇻🇳🇵🇭🇮🇩
Relevant docs ➡️ogy.de/4k6i (admittedly, quite a few & due to public funders' requirements not the easiest to digest).

Meanwhile in Cabo Verde🇨🇻 ...
Associação Projecto Vitó Fauna & Flora OceanThayne

View from our cockpit:
🌊€105m contractually committed + €39m match funding (grants with additional €40m from us in the pipeline)
🌊2024 taking up speed (Q1 >€5m disbursed).
🌊🏆we passed €50m payments threshold.
#OceanOptimism funded by 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇷🇳🇴🇮🇪

Launched👇: we aim to invest additional €20m in NGOs to support MPAs & coastal communities in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Call ➡️tinyurl.com/BlueActionETP2…
#OceanOptimism funded by 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 🇫🇷 🇳🇴 🇮🇪

Online: 2023 Annual Report, incl. info on programme, governance, & most important finance tinyurl.com/4y8krsfn
#OceanOptimism funded by 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 🇫🇷 🇧🇻 🇮🇪

It's great to see fruitful collaboration and coordination between key stakeholders in the region. Proud that we can contribute to adressing some of these challenges by implementing the 'Blue Bijagos' project in Guinea-Bissau through the BlueActionFund grant to PRCM.

Thanks SteffiLemke for your personal leadership to attend Our Ocean Greece. Great to hear about 🇩🇪€420m commitment from wind park auctioning +additional €10m for BlueActionFund. Well done #OceanOptimism

Breaking: At Our Ocean Greece 🇨🇮🍀 announces latest contribution of €1.75m to BlueActionFund. Crucial part of our partnership. 🙏for continued investments in #OceanOptimism Irish Foreign Ministry Irish Aid Irish Embassy Athens Eoin Leahy

Thanks Bundesentwicklungsministerium for additional €10m to BlueActionFund (total contribution now at €105m). This is pure #OceanOptimism . Our Ocean Greece

An optimistic start to day one of #OurOcean2024 in Athens. Thank you BlueActionFund and 🌊 Markus Knigge 🐟 for the opportunity to engage with ocean leaders on the vital 30x30 targets!

Questions about BlueActionFund Call for Proposals investing €20m in Eastern Tropical Pacific MPAs tinyurl.com/BlueActionETP2…?
Last chance to meet us in person at Our Ocean Greece
#OceanOptimism

Full house at our 'reaching 30x30' side event at Our Ocean Greece, cohosted by Bundesumweltministerium & @blueactionfund. Inputs by 🇩🇪 Ocean Commissioner @oceanunger & @oceanknigge. Plenty of ideas for further cooperation in the room. #OceanOptimism

Funding #30x30 Side event at Our Ocean Greece hosted by BlueActionFund Minderoo Foundation FPA2 & Oceans5, moderated by WWF Oceans 🌊