Founder and Director
Organization: Life In Leggings: Caribbean Alliance Against Gender-based Violence (lifeinleggings.org)
Initiative: Life In Leggings: Caribbean Alliance Against Gender-based Violence
Location: Barbados
Curator
Organization: Online SDG Youth Action Forum (facebook.com/groups/
Initiative: Online SDG Youth Action Forum
Location: Luzon island, Philippines
Manager, RMI
Organization: RMI (https://rmi.org/people/sidney-jules/)
Initiative: Dominica Schools Resilient Microgrids
Location: Dominica
Master Ceramicist
Organization: Wine To Water Dominican Republic (winetowater.org/our-work-dr)
Initiative: Ceramic Water Filter
Location: Dominican Republic
Former Manager Of Leleuvia Island Resort, Co-Founder And Co-Chair Of The Duavata Sustainable Tourism Collective, Co-Founder Of The Sustainable Sea Transport Initiative
(Passed away in 2021)
Initiative: Reviving environmental stewardship in Fiji through traditional sailing
Location: Fiji
Co-Founder, Partner And Co-CEO, PRoduce
Director, Department Of Environment, Cayman Islands Government
Organization: Department of Environment, Cayman Islands Government (doe.ky/#)
Location: Cayman Islands
Founder & Executive Director, Helen’s Daughters
Organization: Helen’s Daughters (helensdaughters.org/)
Location: Saint Lucia
President/Director, Tonga Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship Inc.
Organization: Tonga Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship Inc. (tyeetonga.org)
Location: Tonga
Municipal Mayor, Municipality Of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines
Affiliated Organization: Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines (visitdelcarmen.com/mayors-corner/)
Location: Siargao Island, Philippines
Adjunct Professor | Associate Teaching Professor / Scientific & Educational Consultant, Drexel University / Kids Love Greece
Affiliated Organization: Drexel University (drexel.edu/) / Kids Love Greece (kidslovegreece.com/en/)
Location: Crete, Greece
Microgrid Researcher | Laboratory Professor / Co-Founder - Content Creator / Host, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre Y Maestra / Energía Journal
Affiliated Organization: Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (pucmm.edu.do/) / Energía Journal (anchor.fm/energiajournal)
Location: Dominican Republic
SIDS SDG & Blue Economy Researcher, World Maritime University
Affiliated Organization: World Maritime University (wmu.se/)
Location: Fiji
Affiliated Organization: EarthSpark International (earthsparkinternational.org)
Location: Haiti
Affiliated Organization: Municipality of Chalki Island (dimoschalkis.gr/en/)
Location: Luzon island, Philippines
Affiliated Organization: Blue Planet Energy (https://www.blueplanetenergy.com/)
Location: Puerto Rico
Educational programme in South East Mauritius as part of their main Project “Conservation threatened marine megafauna species in Mauritius”.
Implementing organization: Marine Megafauna Conservation Organization (marinemegafaunaconservation.org)’s educational programme in South East Mauritius as part of their main Project “Conservation threatened marine megafauna species in Mauritius”
Implementing partners: The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), UNDP, and the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Recreation.
Location: Mauritius
Implementing organization: barbudanGO
Location: Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda
Implementing organization: The Nature Conservancy
Implementing partners: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IRFC)
Location: Jamaica
Organization: Reach Within (https://www.reachwithin.org/)
Location: Grenada
Organization: Carbon Zero Institute of Trinidad & Tobago (czitt.com/)
Location: Trinidad & Tobago
Organization: N.C.B Foundation (myncb.com/Corporate-Social-Responsibility)
Location: Jamaica
Organization: Coast 4C (coast4c.com/)
Location: 10 small island villages in the Philippines across the central and western Visayas, and expanding to a further 20 small island villages.
Organization: Aqua-Farms Organization (AFO) (afo.or.tz/)
Location: Unguja and Pemba islands, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Organization: SULUBAAI Environmental Foundation inc. (sulubaai-foundation.com/)
Location: Pangatalan Island, the Philippines
Location: St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Location: Barbados
Location: Zanzibar, Tanzania
(Produktif Turism Blong Yumi Initiative) (https://www.agritourismvanuatu.com/), part of the Vanuatu Sustainable Tourism Strategy
Government Department: Vanuatu Department of Tourism (tourism.gov.vu/index.php/en/)
Location: Vanuatu
Government Department: Azores Destination Management Organization – Azores DMO (sustainable.azores.gov.pt/en/)
Location: Azores
Government Department: 80-member Working Group of government, academia, private sector, non-profit, and youth partners facilitated by the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability.
Location: Guam
Location: Barbados
Location: SMILO is located in France and supports 40 small islands around the world.
Location: Canada. The organization serves many Indigenous Nations who are located on islands and whose territories cover islands and archipelagos in the Pacific Northwest.
Organization: Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePACT) operated by the Pacific Community (SPC)’s Land Resources Division.
Location: Viti Levu, Fiji
Organization: Global Emergency Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction (GER3) (ger3.org/), in collaboration with many individuals and organizations, both local and international.
Location: St Vincent, St Vincent & Grenadines
Organization: Azores All In Blue (azoresallinblue.pt/)
Location: Azores
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