The overall goal of this project is to contribute to maintaining and enhancing of ecosystem health, integrity, stability, and functions by strengthening the enabling environment for SLM at the institutional and systemic levels through increased and enhanced national capacity to respond to issues related to SLM.

To overcome barriers to effective management and sustained financing of Thailand’s protected area system

To facilitate expansion of the national system of marine and coastal protected areas and improve its management effectiveness.

To advance towards sustainability of the uses and resources of the Rio de la Plata/Maritime Front through the implementation of the Strategic Action Program (SAP) with regards to reduction and prevention of land-based pollution

To ensure the integrated, cooperative, sustainable, ecosystem-based management and use of the living coastal and marine resources, including fisheries and biodiversity, of the Arafura and Timor Seas region, through the formulation, inter-governmental adoption and initial implementation of a Regional Strategic Action Programme (SAP) and National Action Programs (NAPs).

To strengthen national capacities and international cooperation on priority transboundary concerns relating to the conservation and management of highly migratory fish stocks in the west Pacific Ocean and east Asia (Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam)

To improve the condition of the fisheries and their habitats in the SCS through an integrated, collaborative and sustainable tri-national management