- partnership based initiative promoting investment in costal ecosystem for sustainable development.
- promote healthy coastal ecosystem, partnership based, people focused, policy relevant, investment oriented approach.
- increase resilience to nature hazards and climate change.
- Members: Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Seychelles, Pakistan, Srilanka, Thailand.
- Collaborative platform
- Adopted mangroves as its flagship ecosystem seeing the important role played in 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.