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Coral Triangle Support Partnership Project

The Coral Triangle Support Partnership (CTSP) is a five-year project that supports six nations of the Coral Triangle (Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines – also known as the CT6). WWF receives financial assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement CTSP in CT6, whose governments have committed to address the challenges in fisheries management, live reef fish trade and climate change through international cooperation.

In the Philippines, the priority sites of WWF are the provinces of Palawan and Tawi-Tawi. Being at project mid-term, CTSP has facilitated the development of fisheries management plans in the municipalities of Taytay, Araceli and Dumaran in Palawan. In Tawi-Tawi where seaweed farming is the dominant source of livelihood, the project is assisting the municipal governments of Sitangkai, Sibutu and Languyan in improving the management of their mariculture areas and Marine Protected Areas. Recently, three of these municipalities formulated their Climate Change Adaptation Plans, identifying priority actions that would give their constituents, infrastructure, coral reefs and fisheries better chances of surviving changes that could be brought about by climate change. The CTSP project also extends assistance to the Philippine National Coral Triangle Initiative Coordinating Committee and a mentoring program for state colleges and universities.