The Dive into Marine Science project educated 100 youths ranging from primary to university students on ocean literacy and advocacy. Through environmental data collection and interpretation along the Bijilo Beach, this project focused on building the knowledge and understanding of aquatic ecosystems in The Gambia. Every year Gambia Ocean Heroes commemorates International Coastal Clean-Up Day (ICCD) with a massive clean-up along the 80 km coastline in collaboration with 7 community-based organizations. Every year they have over 1000 volunteers.

The Local Catch Network (LCN) Find your Seafood tool connects consumers with fishers in their local community. This grant funds the media activities around Find Your Seafood Week on August 22-28 as well as the capacity building training provided to local fishers and members of the LCN so that they can learn how to replicate these and other social media campaigns to grow their businesses.

HAZla por tu Playa is a national campaign to keep our ocean, seas, lakes and rivers free from pollution. This movement started in Peru (reaching 22 regions) and has now extended to 11 countries, continuing to grow with each edition. Over the 8 editions of HAZla we have cleaned over 1000 beaches, rivers, wetlands & lakes with around 200 tons of debris collected and the success of knowing that our efforts not only cleaned but prevented more plastic from reaching the sea.

This project is a collaborative effort between two organizations in the Philippines. Ocean Ripple conducted a series of beach clean-ups, and Tagpi Tagpi worked with female entrepreneurs to upcycle the collected waste into plush toys for sale.

SOA Moquegua will conduct an analysis of the water quality in the Peruvian port city of Ilo, an area with a history of heavy metal waste discharge perpetrated by ENGIE and Southern Copper Corporation.

Based in Baja California and affiliated with the Management of Ecosystems Across the Californias organization, this project conducts research and monitoring to identify rocky reef sites that are best suited for implementation of a recent kelp forest restoration technique: green gravel. It is a low cost technique involving seeding small rocks with juvenile kelp that will contribute both to ecosystem restoration as well as fishing livelihoods to those dependent on the kelp. The target for this project is to seed 300 square meters.

This will be a continuation of the same data journalism training that Gideon and SOA Ghana conducted last year, which successfully trained 15 journalists that published articles spotlighting illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing activities as well as marine pollution and its dangers to the ocean and society. This year he will do the same; conducting a training built around expert mentorship from 4 expert journalists. The ultimate objective is to influence ocean-related policy decisions by elevating ocean discussions to the top of the national agenda. The project will also deploy a digital campaign involving 10 short videos and 20 infographics to promote the articles and to educate residents across West Africa on the dangers of marine pollution, and improve practices of waste management. The digital campaign is expected to reach 100,000 people online.

In order to enhance local Cook Islanders' understanding of seabed mining, Te Ipukarea Society hosted an interactive panel discussion event, 6 workshops for youth at schools, and produced a brief documentary on the threat Seabed Mining poses to the Cook Islands, which has over 5,000 views in less than one year.

Mi Manglar involves the local community in mangrove education, cleanup, monitoring and restoration. They will plant 1,000 seedlings across .2 hectares and create a group of "guardians" to monitor the site.