This project seeks to support seven (7) SIDS to strengthen their capacities to develop and implement appropriate enabling legal, institutional and policy frameworks to grow sustainable ocean-based economies and to derive economic benefits from harnessing the productive potential of their ocean spaces. This will be achieved through interventions designed to strengthen policies, legal and institutional frameworks and technical capacities for effective decision making and implementation of planned priorities at national and/or regional levels as they relate to SDG 14. This project will be implemented by the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Unit of Division of Sustainable Development (DSD), Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). The activities in the Pacific will implemented in collaboration with the International Seabed Authority. Other regional partners include the Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), the Council of Regional Organizations in the Pacific (CROP) agencies including the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC/SOPAC), and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP).