Judith Weigand

Management Effectiveness for Marine Protected Areas | Reef Resilience Network

👇Free online course on Management Effectivness of MPAs in 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇮🇩 🇦🇪 🇫🇷. #30x30
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What a great achievement! This year @blueactionfund.org disbursed 21.8million Euros to its grantees to support #OceanOptimism all over the world! Thanks to everyone involved in this endeavour!

Great opportunity to join the wonderful @blueactionfund.org Team - check this out 👇

More Happy News: since end of September São Tomé & Príncipe is the first country with 100% of its land designated as UNESCO Biosphere Reserve! Now we are just waiting for ✍️ of the decree law by the president to establish the first MPAs in the country 👇 A lot of #oceanoptimism & #conservationoptimism

Yesterday we completed Part 1 of @blueactionfund.org visit on Príncipe Island. Thanks to @faunaflora.bsky.social & Fundacao Principe for showing us your important work on the Island. Establishing MPAs & establishing small businesses to help communities becoming more resilient. #oceanoptimism

Packed few days in Príncipe 🇸🇹 visiting the @blueactionfund.org -funded project led by @faunaflora.bsky.social, implemented by local partner Fundação Príncipe.

📸 Small-scale enterprises, grievance mechanism in action, fish catch data collection.

More on the project👇
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Great opportunity to work with a fabulous team spreading #OceanOptimism around the globe 👇

Excited to be joining some 1200 other WIO ocean enthusiasts for the WIOMSA symposium and looking forward to an exchange-rich week! @wiomsa.bsky.social @blueactionfund.org @oceanthyrza.bsky.social

Great to see @blueactionfund.org grantees meeting in real!!

We accepted invite to join the Advisory Committee of Pacifico which mobilises 💶💵💴 for marine conservation in the Central Eastern Tropical Pacific. Surely, plenty of opportunities for exchange & mutual benefit with our existing and upcoming investments in the region. #OceanOptimism

#HappyFridayNews: Today, we ✒️ €5.4 million project with @envdefensefund.bsky.social to support climate resilient MPAs and small Scale fisheries management in Lampung 🇮🇩.
#OceanOptimism @oceancecilia.bsky.social

Happy Friday News 🎉New Grant Fact Sheet for Grant to Oikos working in Honduras has just been published. One more in the @blueactionfund.org portfolio - looking forward to the next years of collaboration!

UNESCO: Moçambique e Guiné-Bissau na Lista - Mais Afrika A UNESCO inscreveu este domingo o Parque Nacional de Maputo, em Moçambique, na lista do Património Mundial da Humanidade. O Parque de Maputo está ligado ao

Two new @unesco.org sites in 🇬🇼 & 🇲🇿 - Two @blueactionfund.org supported Marine Protected Areas #OceanOptimism
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Thanks @new-york-un.diplo.de for hosting 🌊ocean event at upcoming #HLPF2025. We are looking forward to contributing...
@bmz.de @umweltministerium.de @oceanknigge.bsky.social

We reviewed & revised TOR for mid-term & final grant evaluations that all grants undergo, among ohters adding new social safeguard aspects. Thanks @oceanweigand.bsky.social for herding 🐈, i.e. the programme team.

And proud to announce that one of those accepted special sessions will dive into lessons learned on EbA in the WIO by @blueactionfund.org grantees in the region (more about the projects here: tinyurl.com/bdrwdj2v). Congrats to the team! #oceanoptimism

3 Nations and 20 Institutions Launch Global Commitment to Elevate Women in Ocean Leadership – Movement Secures $3.8M GEF Grant NICE, FRANCE (JUNE 11, 2025) – At the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, a bold new global commitment was launched to center coastal women as leaders in marine conservation and sustainable livelihoods....

We believe in gender equity. This is why we signed the 'Women Ocean Guardians commitment', reinforcing our existing ambitions, policies, & requirements ♀️💪. Thanks for bringing such a powerful movement together @wcs.org 🥳👏#OceanOptimism
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West Africa united for the ocean. Thank you PRCM for inviting @blueactionfund.org to the Western Africa Dinner at #UNOC3.
Lots of exciting announcements re BBNJ ratification & good to see such strong partnerships.
@oceanweigand.bsky.social

All set for #UNOC3

Norge gir 100 millioner til havsatsinger I forbindelse med havkonferansen i Nice i Frankrike, gir Norge 100 millioner kroner til satsinger som jobber for å beskytte sårbare områder i havet.

Breaking: Norway contributes additional € 6.8 million to @blueactionfund.org (total now at €17.7 million). Thanks Norway & @norad.no for spreading some #OceanOptimism at #UNOC3 & #BEFF2025
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1st day at #BEFF2025, with an impressive opening speech by @christinelagarde.bsky.social, many fruitful exchanges, solution hubs including our grantee @wildtrustssa.bsky.social. One takeaway: We need more investable ready projects! Happy that @blueactionfund.org is contributing to address this!

Looking forward to represent @blueactionfund.org together with our board member at the #BEFF….👇

flyer for Coastal Heroes event

Very glad to hear that @greenclimate.fund confirmed participation at our #ClimateHeroes event at #UNOC3. Essential to link climate & 🌊agendas, as examplafied in our €50m EbA funding window ogy.de/7zrf
@wwf.de @bmz.de @giz.de @oceancecilia.bsky.social

Meanwhile in Honduras 🇭🇳...
Excellent example of a grievance mechanism...👇 Grant fact sheet for our €4.9 million project with @rare.org ➡️https://ogy.de/2lt5

#UNOC3 is approaching fast and I am looking forward to meet partners and colleagues during the conference - best at one of these 👇events #30by30 #OceanOptimism

Thrilled to join the Leading Women for the Ocean, a global community of women leaders advancing #OceanGovernance and the #BlueEconomy. We are committed to empowering women's participation in key negotiations such as #ClimateChange and ocean protection. leadingwomenfortheocean.org
#OceanOptimism

Save the date: #CoastalClimateHeroes 9 June #UNOC3, featuring several of our grants incl. in 🇧🇿 & 🇲🇬.
Cohosted with @wwf.de @bmz.de & @giz.de

Welcoming new 🇩🇪 Minister for Development Cooperation on Blue Sky @reemalabali.bsky.social 🥳 . @bmz.de plays crucial role to support global south re 🌊 marine conservation & sustainable communities, incl. through @blueactionfund.org.
#OceanOptimism @heikehenn.bsky.social

Thanks @jochenflasbarth.bsky.social for taking the time to discuss marine conservation, incl. @blueactionfund.org as 🗝️ funding instrument for 🌊 #30by30.
@bmz.de @bmuv.de @oceanunger.bsky.social #OceanOptimism

Programme Director @oceanweigand.bsky.social and Namibia Nature Foundation presenting our programme. #LebendigeMeere