The second PROMISE Sustainability Awards together with a Marine Litter Prevention Conference is scheduled to be held on 30th May 2023 at Trivandrum, Kerala.
The PROMISE project team in India in association with Positive Change for Marine Life celebrated Earth Day 2023 by conducting a two-day (21 and 22 April) beach clean-up drive at Kovalam Beach, Kerala. A total of 65 volunteers collected 550 kg of waste over the two days. On the first day, the volunteers consisted majorly of scuba divers, school, and college students.
The Fort Kochi beach clean-up event successfully took place on 11 February 2023 in association with Ms Aparna Mulberry (Social media content creator) and Djunk, a waste management company.
On 23 February 2023, online Training of Trainers workshop was held for the project team from all focus countries. 18 team members participated in the training which was facilitated by Mr. Paolo Facco, Senior Advisor, adelphi.
The PROMISE project team conducted the third and the final policy roundtable on Marine Litter Prevention in Maldives on 7th February 2023.
The third policy dialogue on Marine Litter Prevention in India was held on 3rd February 2023 in Thiruvananthapuram.
The second PROMISE policy roundtable (Solution Prototyping) on Marine Litter Prevention in Sri Lanka was held on 24th January 2023. This was a follow-up roundtable to the first policy roundtable (Challenge Identification) held on 21 January 2022.
Overview of Activities
On 20 December 2022, online Training of Trainers workshop was held for the project team from all focus countries. 16 PROMISE team members participated in the training. Training was facilitated by Mr. Amarnath Munnolimath, Senior Manager, adelphi.
The Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) to the Maldives and Sri Lanka, Mr Lars Bredal, participated in a beach clean-up event organised by the ‘Prevention of Marine Litter in the Lakshadweep Sea’ (PROMISE) project in the Maldives on 28th November 2022.
