BUILDING SUSTAINABLE, EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT OCEAN ECONOMIES
WHAT ARE THE BLUE RECOVERY HUBS?
The Blue Recovery Hubs provide the evidence and partnerships required for small island developing states to accelerate sustainable ocean economic development and build climate change resilience.
The Blue Recovery Hubs partners work with governments to evaluate the impacts of COVID-19 to understand the vulnerabilities in the socio-economic system and identify under-developed ocean economy sectors that can be leveraged to build resilience moving forward.
STAGES
Economic Appraisal
to understand the scope of the ocean economy, the impacts of COVID-19 and identify opportunities for resilient development
Sustainable Investment Pathway
to understand the roadblocks to the development and sustainable financing of priority sectors and the actions and partnerships required to overcome them
Roundtable
to mobilize the stakeholders and create the working groups required to implement the recommended actions
COUNTRIES ENGAGED
The Blue Recovery Hubs have been working with Fiji since 2021 to support their COVID-19 recovery through providing the evidence base required to prioritize sustainable ocean economic development.
The Blue Recovery Hubs team engaged with Samoa at the United Nations Ocean Conference 2022. Samoa was chosen to increase the coverage of the project in the Pacific region.
“Using the same architecture that has proven so effective for international influence, there is an opportunity in the Pacific to enable the development of regional economies of scale in specific industries to meet the demands of investors.”
— Blue Recovery Hubs Aquaculture Sustainable Investment Pathway: Fiji, March 2023