Overview
Ocean-based sectors contribute today to 13% of developing countries’ GDP while providing employment to over 300 million and sustaining the livelihoods of more than two billion people in developing countries.Deriving sustainable benefits from these economic frontiers should occur within integrated and effective legal and institutional frameworks for the sustainable governance of oceans. In view of the strong interrelation of ocean issues, efforts are needed to support the development of integrated ocean governance frameworks and to strengthen coherent capacity building efforts, toenable the development of a sustainable ocean economyand address SDG 14. In response to this, the project aimed atstrengthening the capacitiesof coastal developing countries, particularly Small Island Developing States (SIDS), in elaborating, adopting and implementing evidence-based and policy coherent OETS to promote sustainable trade of products and services in ocean-based-economic sectors within the UNCLOS framework.