{"id":3969,"date":"2024-07-03T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:32:00","slug":"just-launched-the-mpa-finance-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2024\/07\/03\/just-launched-the-mpa-finance-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Just launched- The MPA Finance Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3970\" src=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MPA-Finance-Toolkit-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MPA-Finance-Toolkit-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MPA-Finance-Toolkit-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MPA-Finance-Toolkit-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MPA-Finance-Toolkit-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MPA-Finance-Toolkit-1320x743.webp 1320w, https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MPA-Finance-Toolkit.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Marine protected areas (MPAs) play an important role in protecting habitat, managing fisheries, supporting marine biodiversity, and providing many related co-benefits to coastal communities. Despite their ecological, social, and economic value, almost two-thirds of MPAs around the world lack sufficient funding for effective management of their areas.<\/p>\n<p>The new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reefresilience.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6cd869450695afc219d3f0b7f&amp;id=83b8d6b153&amp;e=c8940935ca\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/reefresilience.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D6cd869450695afc219d3f0b7f%26id%3D83b8d6b153%26e%3Dc8940935ca&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1720074194832000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1gpWi8HWakBWOfzVF_bY1o\">MPA Finance Toolkit<\/a>\u00a0is a first-stop resource for marine managers and practitioners interested in generating sustainable financing for their MPAs. The online toolkit features six videos, an extensive glossary of potential finance mechanisms (including grant-based, compensation-based, investment-based, and ecosystem value-based mechanisms), and the Blue Nature Alliance\u2019s 3-step methodology for identifying and prioritizing MPA financing opportunities. Managers using this toolkit will come away not only with a broad understanding of this emerging and rapidly growing field, but also with guidance on how to generate high-level roadmaps for potential finance mechanisms for their MPAs.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/reefresilience.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6cd869450695afc219d3f0b7f&amp;id=f847df92a4&amp;e=c8940935ca\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/reefresilience.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D6cd869450695afc219d3f0b7f%26id%3Df847df92a4%26e%3Dc8940935ca&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1720074194832000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3sqbwdRtdU2dUtNmuqrNiP\"><strong>Explore the MPA Finance Toolkit<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The MPA Finance Toolkit was developed by the Reef Resilience Network in partnership with the\u202fBlue Nature Alliance, a global partnership to catalyze effective large-scale ocean conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine protected areas (MPAs) play an important role in protecting habitat, managing fisheries, supporting marine biodiversity, and providing many related co-benefits to coastal communities. Despite their ecological, social, and economic value, almost two-thirds of MPAs around the world lack sufficient funding for effective management of their areas. The new\u00a0MPA Finance Toolkit\u00a0is a first-stop resource for<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/2024\/07\/03\/just-launched-the-mpa-finance-toolkit\/\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capacity-building","category-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiomsa.org\/wiompan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}