Blue Entrepreneurship Breakthrough
Turning Ocean Ambition into Investable, African-Led Action Announced: COP30 (Belém, Brazil) Official Launch: Our Ocean Conference (Kenya, June 2026) Core Framework: Ocean Breakthroughs In the ocean-climate conversation, ambition is no longer the bottleneck. The gap is implementation. Across Africa, entrepreneurs are already building the solutions that can decarbonize ocean industries, protect marine ecosystems, and strengthen […]
United Nations Ocean Decade Africa Taskforce
Turning Continental Ambition into Coordinated Action Framework: UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) Coordination: African Ocean Decade Taskforce & Decade Coordination Office for Africa Ocean Impact Area: Science-to-policy alignment and regional stakeholder coordination The UN Ocean Decade is a once-in-a-generation chance to align science, policy, and investment behind a single North Star: […]
Great Blue Wall
Connecting the Corridor: OIA 2023 as the Catalyst for a Nature-Positive Africa Region: Western Indian Ocean (WIO) Target Year: 2030 Ocean Impact Area: Large-scale marine conservation and regenerative blue economies Most people hear “Western Indian Ocean” and think of a horizon. For 70 million people living along this coastline, it is something far more intimate: […]
Dassault Systemes
A Strategic Partnership: Accessing Cutting-Edge Product-Development Tools Partnership: OceanHub Africa & Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Lab Core Focus: Industrial-grade design, simulation, and hardware validation Ocean Impact Area: Ocean-tech engineering and infrastructure development Many blue ventures are not held back by a lack of ideas, but by the cost and complexity of proving that a hardware or […]
Genblue
Floriana & Rumaki
From Local Talent to Local Delivery: Floriana and the RUMAKI Legacy Location: Tanzania (Rufiji–Mafia–Kibiti–Kilwa Seascape) Partnership: OceanHub Africa & WWF Ocean Impact Area: Coastal community entrepreneurship and seascape resilience In coastal community development, the most important question is not only what changes during a programme, but what remains when the programme cycle ends. OceanHub Africa’s […]
MUVA
Mainstreaming the Blue Lens: Institutionalizing Gender-Equitable Ocean Impact Location: Mozambique Partnership: OceanHub Africa & MUVA Ocean Impact Area: Gender-equitable coastal governance and economic inclusion In Mozambique, women have been driving local economies for years, yet the “Blue Economy” conversation has too often moved ahead without them in the room. Since 2015, MUVA has been one […]
Blue Invest Africa
Making Capital Pathways Clearer for Africa’s Blue Entrepreneurs Editions: Kenya (2024), Togo (2025), South Africa (2026) Core Focus: Investor-readiness and capital matchmaking Ocean Impact Area: Blue Economy financing and EU–Africa partnerships In Africa’s Blue Economy, capital often fails to move not because there is no opportunity, but because the pathway is fragmented. Founders often cannot […]
Regenerative Ocean Week
Turning Science into Solutions Across Africa’s Blue Economy Partners: Ocean Innovation Africa, IUCN, and the Ocean & Climate Platform Core Theme: Science-to-Solutions Ocean Impact Area: Systems change, policy alignment, and knowledge transfer Regenerative Ocean Week showed what becomes possible when ocean science is treated as a starting point, not an end point. By bringing researchers, […]
Captain Fanplastic
When Ecosystems Align: How a Regional Partnership Took Ocean Literacy to Scale Scope: South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) Year of Support: 2022 onwards Ocean Impact Area: Ocean literacy and plastic pollution mitigation A generation of youth is growing up on the front lines of climate change without the tools to protect their own shores. Across the […]