The CTI-CFF Women Leaders Forum, in collaboration with USAID, US Department of Interior, CTI NCC Philippines, Conservation International and Coral Triangle Center, participated in the 3rd Forum on Women Leaders in Biodiversity Conservation held in Manila on July 21, 2015.
The event highlighted the accomplishments of the women leaders to serve as inspiration in promoting biodiversity conservation and environmental law enforcement.
Sixteen women leaders attended a training on marine protected area management on November 3-5, 2014 in Dili, Timor-Leste.
The US Department of Interior (DOI), with funding from USAID, worked with the Coral Triangle Center (CTC) to host women leaders from the six Coral Triangle countries to participate in a multi-faceted, peer exchange to the U.S. from April –May 2014.
The program involved state-of-the-art leadership training, professional development opportunities, field-based learning, and collaboration with other women leaders. Following the study tour, participants have helped organize and develop the roadmap of the CTI-CFF Women Leaders’ Forum.
The 1st capacity building workshop for the Malaysian Women Leader’s Forum (WLF) was held on the 13-15 October 2016 attended by 15 women leaders. The workshop covered: i) Effective Public Speaking & Presentation Skill, and ii) Non Finance to Non Finance People.
As part of the CTI-CFF Women Leaders Forum launch, six grassroots women leaders were honored and awarded a small grant of US$3,000 to carry out marine conservation and sustainability project in their communities. USAID, DOI, CTC supported and managed the grants for PNG, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste while the Asian Development Bank supported the grants for Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Marine plastics debris is becoming a major concern globally. As early as 2015, a research published in the journal Science ranked the top 20 plastic polluters and found that most of the plastic entering the ocean comes from China, followed by Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. The study found that China, being the highest contributor to plastic marine debris, contributed ca. 1.32 to 3.52 million tonnes a year, and Indonesia ca. 0.5-1.3 million tonnes per year (Jambeck et al., 2015).
The grants competition is funded primarily by NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. It supports both US domestic and international coral reef conservation projects.
This year funding is available for international projects and are limiting the project categories to only two very specific areas, including the following priority below:
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The Coral Triangle Fishers Forum (CTFF) is a regional platform hosted by the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF), designed to enable fisher folks and other industry stakeholders to share experiences and perspectives about the issues in the Coral Triangle region that affect them, and find common ground in achieving sustainable and equitable fisheries.
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