Steps towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14 include conserving the worlds maritime biological and ecological systems by safeguarding the quality of water in the oceans. This also implies searching for and promoting sustainable ways of intensification of aquatic livelihoods in coastal areas that
safeguard the marine lives and environment.

Our contribution will be focused on disseminating best management practices of coastal ecosystems, and green technologies for containing coastal erosion by fishermen and hunters. One way to do so is to manage small water catchments that flow in the sea through application of the Source-to-Sea (S2S) Continuum concept. We will disseminate this concept by helping community living along the south Indian and south Atlantic oceans to develop Integrated plans for water resources and sanitation management. For this to be done, we will help communities develop Water Users' Associations (WUAs) in each catchment.