Love Your Coast Open Sourced Capacity Building through Sport and the Environment Programs
The Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust (New Zealand)
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Description
This partnership is implemented through a "train the trainer" model in SIDS which passes on key skills in public speaking, event management, community engagement, organisational management and fundraising. These skills are then put into practice with educational presentations, events (including coastal clean-ups and riparian planting) and evaluation for behavioural change through surveys.Any SIDS with an Olympic committee can source seed funding from the International Olympic Committee's "Olympic Solidarity" program.
The core implementation of this project, as discussed above, is about capacity building. Project resources, plans, tactics and toolkits are not only open sourced, but training is given for communities to build their local capacity to use them and additional ongoing support provided through digital platforms.The programs are housed at www.loveyourcoast.org which provides a platform for action against marine litter. Another platform (www.loveyourwater.org) is currently being built to take action on water quality through riparian planting events and education. These programs have proved that the populations who get involved are exhibiting behavioural change on littering, single-use plastics consumption and sharing of information.
The Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust, based out of New Zealand is the owner of the platforms for this program, however all material is open-sourced. We work with the Oceania Olympic Committees Board to determine SIDS of priority for Sports and the Environment Projects. Funding decisions for Sport and the Environment projects are governed by Olympic Solidarity (a department of the International Olympic Committee), whilst strategy for the funding is implemented by the Sports and the Environment Commission. Achievement on disaster risk reduction will be governed our staff who gained experience in managing over 6,500 volunteers to clean up an oil spill in New Zealand (a world first) and through a governance partnership with the Volunteer Army Foundation (a major group working with the UNISDR, who initiated another world-first program by engaging student volunteers to respond to a major earthquake in Christchurch).
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
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Sam Judd, CEO