We currently hold official government mandates to co-manage large MPAs across Indonesia, the Philippines, and Tanzania (Zanzibar), regenerating coral reefs, at scale. Our work has directly benefitted thousands of fisher community members through improved food security and sustainable fishing, with a strong focus on women and girls. Alongside conservation, we own and operate reef-positive businesses in aquaculture, sustainable fisheries, and ecotourism. These businesses create local employment and share revenues with surrounding communities, while their dividends directly fund MPA management.
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We manage large MPAs through long-term agreements signed with governments to regenerate coral reefs and strengthen food security.
We manage our portfolio of reef-positive businesses in the blue economy to alleviate poverty. Businesses create mission-aligned incomes for MPAs and progressively replace philanthropy.
We designed a blended finance structure with donors and impact investors to finance the large MPAs and businesses.
The solution begins with governments agreeing to delegate the management of a large MPA to Blue Alliance to improve resilience and effectiveness.
For each MPA, a local Blue Alliance non-profit entity is established, with local partners and communities, to work alongside the regional and national authorities. Agreements are signed between the respective governments and Blue Alliance local non-profit subsidiaries, with terms up to 10 years, renewable indefinitely.
Blue Alliance maintains the full responsibility and execution of all agreed MPA management activities in compliance, livelihood development, and conservation and is accountable to each government, who remains the owner and determines all policies related to the MPAs.
We help governments deliver their sustainability promises.
By delegating the day-to-day management of MPAs to Blue Alliance, governments can focus on core functions such as regulation and prosecution. They also have an oversight role, including approving the annual objectives and plans for each MPA, based on insights from an advisory committee made up of local stakeholders.
Every Blue Alliance large MPA combines sustainable artisanal fishing zones, regenerative aquaculture zones, ecotourism zones and no-fishing zones. MPAs are designed by governments and local communities to rewild ecosystems, reduce illegal and destructive fishing, improve food security, create new opportunities in the blue economy for local communities, and enhance climate change resilience. These MPAs (also referred to as seascapes) are large, complex, living systems where people and nature interact. Our experience has shown us that these goals are entirely compatible and achievable.
In each MPA, Blue Alliance teams carry out over 70 essential activities across three key areas: compliance (including law enforcement in collaboration with authorities and community engagement), biodiversity conservation (such as threat reduction and ecosystem monitoring), and community development (like livelihood support programmes for fishers).
Our business division manages innovative reef-positive businesses in the blue economy with local communities. Community participation is at the core of this work. By involving local stakeholders in decision-making and management, we ensure that conservation efforts are not only effective but also equitable and enduring
These businesses are poised to create hundreds of new jobs, lift thousands of coastal households out of poverty, and drive large‑scale marine ecosystem regeneration.
By fostering a conservation-led economy, we can generate revenue through blue economy social enterprises while also providing socio-economic and employment benefits.
By 2033, our goal is to finance a significant portion of the MPA’s annual budgets with the mission-aligned dividends from the reef-positive businesses, enabling MPAs to become self-sufficient and achieve long-term impacts.
We believe that our MPAs can become financially self-sustainable and independent from donors in the long term. We built a scalable conservation model for large Marine Protected Areas to be managed and financed for decades.
Donor funding is catalytic, not permanent. Our model is built for permanence. The conservation area develops its own financial engines, from sustainable fisheries to blue carbon. Donor support becomes the spark, not the fuel. And over time, the ecosystem, and the economy around it, becomes the perpetuity.
We fund the management of the large MPAs and the early-stage investments of the reef-positive businesses through our blended finance structure, blending 3 instruments:
We have reinvented philanthropy and focused on impact investing. We have worked with like-minded donors and investors by building blue economy businesses in and around large MPAs.
Our performance is evaluated through a set of indicators that follow established international standards .
By connecting investors, donors, stakeholders, and ecosystems, we’re pioneering a scalable, replicable approach to the sustainable management and financing of large Marine Protected Areas.
There are six identified and agreed upon Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are being monitored in each Marine Protected Area (MPA).
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