The solution includes an online map on #Footprints4ourFuture’s website, through which it is possible to monitor tree planting and maintenance. This innovative tool was developed by a group of young women from the north of Costa Rica. It provides data on the number and location of trees planted, including their species, planting date, and care detail. By enabling contributors to locate their specific tree on the map, the tool enhances transparency and accountability, potentially encouraging adherence to the campaign. It also provides valuable information for the monitoring and evaluation of #Footprints4ourFuture.

Improving the competitiveness of the products and services offered by FEPACOIBA, increasing conservation with local economic development under a value-added scheme based on good practices. 

To achieve this, we work with responsible fishing producers, complying with closed seasons, fishing gear, and size limits. We also train tourism service providers, diversifying services from a perspective of good practices such as experiential fishing, guided tours with historical narratives, and above all, offering our local cuisine that complies with conservation criteria such as size limits and the non-use of vulnerable species.

This consists of influencing public policies and legal frameworks in our country to ensure marine conservation and the sustainable use of resources, strengthening community governance through community participation. To ensure this process, it is very important to participate in public consultations, technical roundtables, workshops, and other activities.

• Strengthen community decision-making based on scientific evidence.
• Share our empirical/traditional knowledge with academic-scientific knowledge, generating synergies for conservation and sustainable development.
• This is achieved through coordination with authorities, research centers, and scientists who recognize the empirical knowledge of fishermen, as well as through adequate regional governance that positions FEPACOIBA as a representative organization of the region that defends the proper management of its resources.

Transform market demand toward sustainable options. Conscious consumers are key to pushing for changes in supply and legitimizing the label's existence. 

NGOs that support the label and certified commercial partners must implement an awareness strategy, which may include training staff at processing plants and restaurants, displaying the label at affiliated locations, and developing public promotional events and informational campaigns through social media. The label image must be used in accordance with the brand manual, ensuring consistency and recognition.

While Sparśa in Nepal serves as a pilot enterprise, NIDISI’s ambition reaches far beyond one country. Years of networking with practitioners, academics, social entrepreneurs, and NGOs showed us that many projects across the Global South are working with natural fibres — banana, sisal, water hyacinth, bamboo — yet most face similar challenges: how to process fibres efficiently, ensure product quality, secure market access, and build financially sustainable social businesses. To address this, we launched the Sparśa Blueprint Project, which creates a global community of knowledge sharing for compostable pad manufacturing.

The Blueprint is where Sparśa’s technical expertise, R&D, and social business lessons are opened up for replication. It documents machinery CAD files, sourcing strategies, financial planning models, and outreach approaches, but also creates space for dialogue and co-creation. Connecting projects across the globe enables local innovators to learn from each other and adapt the model to their own contexts and fibre plants.

First building block of Journey of Community Building: Creating a Globally Adaptable Blueprint Model for Fibre Pad Manufacturing — will be published on the PANORAMA platform in September 2025, and a full solution page will follow in November 2025. There, we will share the accumulated experience of years of building networks across continents, including insights from collaborations with grassroots entrepreneurs, academic partners such as Stanford University’s Prakash Lab and LGP2 from the Grenoble INP-Pagora, NGOs, and local governments. This scaling of our project will serve as the gateway for replication, helping others create their own fibre-based pad enterprises.

The Mundo Marino ECO catamaran demonstrates how hybrid propulsion (sail + electric engines), combined with solar panels and hydrogenerators, can significantly reduce emissions in passenger transport and tourism activities. This building block showcases the integration of renewable technologies into a large-capacity (250 pax) vessel, allowing silent navigation, lower fuel dependency, and direct education of tourists on sustainability. It provides a replicable model for coastal operators seeking to align maritime tourism with decarbonisation and marine conservation goals.

Promote from the market the implementation and compliance of responsible fishing practices and supply as a tool to increase transparency in the supply of raw materials aligned with regulatory compliance and good practices of sustainability certifications.

Generate information for informed decision making by the industry participants of the FIPs, in order to foster a science-based management culture that explores the dynamics of fishing with the environment, the ecosystem and its implications for related value chains.

Promote the implementation of a conservation program and continuous monitoring system for fisheries that will mitigate their impact on the ecosystem and generate industry data for decision making.