The Sustainable Fish Asia (SUFIA) Project, together with its two regional partners—the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF)—has launched its 'Private Sector Engagement Survey'.

The CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat attended the Global Policy Dialogue Series entitled “Technological and Science-based Solutions to the COVID-19 Challenge,” organized by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).

The CTI-CFF Regional Secretariat, along with member countries of CTI-CFF, attended a virtual discussion on “Coral Reefs and the CBD Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework” on 3 November 2020, convened by the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) for participants in the Asia-Pacific region.

The session covered the ICRI recommendations on the CBD Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The recommendations are as follows:

The CTI-CFF, through its Regional Secretariat, attended as an observer in the 5th Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) of the AIS Forum on 10 November 2020. The meeting was held in preparation for the Third Ministerial Meeting of the Archipelagic and Island States (AIS) Forum scheduled for 25 November 2020, to review the progress of the activities and working plan of the AIS Forum Secretariat.