The aim of this guest essay for Our Shared Seas is to provide ocean philanthropists with a brief introduction to trends in ocean-targeted official development assistance (ODA), to demystify the latter for the former, and suggest some ways that the two might more closely work together and enhance their individual efforts. As ocean-related philanthropy increasingly moves beyond North America, we will need both of these sources of capital to work in lockstep as part of a global effort, if we are to achieve both ocean-related SDG targets and end poverty and hunger.
