Coastal Fisheries Initiative - Challenge Fund
Global Knowledge Competition

The CFI-CF Global Knowledge Competition seeks public and private sector partners that share the CFI-CF vision to build coalitions to tackle overfishing in coastal fisheries.

Competition partners will do one or more of the following:

• Share the competition call for applications with your networks

• Mentor competitors

• Provide financial or nonfinancial assistance to finalists or winners

• Serve as a judge or thought leader

• Host a learning or exchange event during or after the competition

Contact us if you are interested in becoming a partner.

Here are a few of our generous partners who are helping us promote the sustainable use and management of coastal fish stocks. 

Post-competition support partners

• The Packard Foundation
• Walton Family Foundation
• GIZ Peru
• SFACT

Core partners

• Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT) [Global]
• Meloy Fund [Global]
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch [Global]
• University of Cabo Verde – Empreamar Cabo Verde
• EDES Business School-UTPL [Ecuador]

• Ecuadorian Association of Private Banks (ASOBANCA) [Ecuador]

• Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (AEI) [Ecuador]

• WWF Ecuador

• Maritim Muda [Indonesia]

• Cayetano Heredia University [Peru]

• Programa Nacional de Innovación en Pesca y Acuicultura (PNIPA) [Peru]

• REDES – Sostenibilidad Pesquera [Peru]

• Univesity Sam Ratulangi [Indonesia]

• Raja Ali Haji Maritime University [Indonesia]
• Associação de Jovens Empresários de Cabo Verde
• PromPeru
• Proempresa [Cabo Verde]
• Mirova

Outreach partners

• World Ocean Council [Global]

• Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions [Global]

• Premios Latinoamérica Verde [Ecuador]

• World Wildlife Fund Peru

Mentors: Coaching and mentoring stage

Judges