Empowering Communities to Protect Their Ocean
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA
OUR OCEAN, OUR FUTURE
BLUE PROSPERITY
MICRONESIA
Blue Prosperity Micronesia (BPM) is a partnership between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Government and the Blue Prosperity Coalition to support the sustainable growth of marine resources in the FSM.
The program is government-led and sets out to optimize ocean uses, protect 30% of the FSM's waters, strengthen fisheries management, and support the development of marine industries.
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FOUNDING
PARTNERS
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KEY
STATISTICS
600+
islands across the FSM
of ocean protection commitment
30%
900,000
amount of ocean that will be safeguarded
sq. km.
PROJECT
TIMELINE
MOU
GOVERNANCE & WORK PLANNING
ASSESSMENTS
PLANNING & LEGAL DEVELOPMENT
IMPLEMENTATION
PROJECT
MILESTONES
2019
MOU is signed between the Government of the FSM, Blue Prosperity Coalition and local partners.
2020
National Task Force is established by Presidential Order.
2020
Blue Economy consultations are held.
2021
Marine Spatial Planning working group is established.
PROGRAM
TEAM
PROGRAM COORDINATOR
YOLANDA JOAB MORI
Yolanda contributes to the building of program pillars including blue economy planning, sustainable fisheries, marine spatial planning, and communications that support the program goals to advance sustainable ocean use in the FSM. She has worked on community-based climate change adaptation and education, with focus on women and youth engagement across the FSM for ten years and serves on the Board for the UN MGCY (United Nations Major Group on Children & Youth).
Bev was born in Chuuk and raised in Pohnpei. In 2016, she moved with her husband and children to Chuuk and worked with the Micronesia Red Cross Society. In 2019, she was hired as the Chuuk State Protected Areas Network (PAN) Coordinator at the Department of Marine Resources (DMR). In this capacity, she worked with different programs such as the FSM Ridge to Reef Program, the FSM Adaptation Fund Project, as well as participation on the BPM Marine Spatial Plan (MSP) working group. During her time at DMR, Bev discovered her passion in working with community members and learning from them about their local ways of implementing conservation efforts and their resilience to natural disasters.
Bev returned to Pohnpei in 2022 and now joins the BPM team as the BPM Program Assistant. She is excited to continue working with communities in conservation and protecting their livelihoods for today and tomorrow.
BEVERLYN FRED
PROGRAM ASSISTANT
FOUNDING PARTNERS
SPOTLIGHT
MICRONESIA CONSERVATION TRUST
The Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT) supports biodiversity conservation and related sustainable development for the people of Micronesia in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of Palau (ROP), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the US Territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
