Sustaining Healthy Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Project

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The proposed Project will build upon the on-going GEF MAR1 Project and expand its scope to harmonize protected area management withpolicy frameworks and activities to create the enabling conditions for a blue economy. The Project seeks to reinforce and expandcurrent efforts to protect and manage Brazil’s extensive coastal and marine environments and the rich biodiversity and ecosystemservices they support; and in this way fostering the emergence of a sustainable and equitable blue economy based on this naturalcapital. More specifically, the project aims to scale up efforts for the consolidation of the national MCPA system. In parallel,the project would support actions to help mainstream blue economy principles into the overarching policy, legislative andinstitutional frameworks; support examples of innovative approaches and technologies for MCPA surveillance and management; and tostrengthen specific sustainable value chains in selected coastal Brazilian states. Additionally, the project would support local,national and international knowledge exchange and collaboration, helping build the capacity of Brazilian stakeholders toeffectively contribute to the management and sustainable use of coastal and marine environments as the foundation for the blueeconomy.