Projects built using tools that work.
Seabright Solutions has twenty years of experience designing and most importantly – figuring out how best to implement – some of the most globally successful market-based tools for oceans.
Please read through the types of projects we can help with and then let’s talk about what you need!
Standards and Quality System Development
- Certification standard creation from ground-up including compliance criteria, process requirements and audit tools for verifiers and implementation frameworks.
- Technical advisory services for standard holders, assurance providers or accreditations bodies.
- Benchmarking different aspects of standard systems for standard holders, governments, or private sector clients, focused on areas of interest and looking beyond simply compliance criterion (e.g. governance systems, auditor qualifications, market reach etc).
- Seafood standards orientations for members of executive teams, CSOs, ESG leads or others who want a clear way to understand the landscape of seafood certification, or the implications of making different internal or external sustainability commitments.
Multi-Sector Program Management
- End-to-end program development from conception to execution across marine conservation initiatives.
- Impact measurement and monitoring system implementation for investment funds or others who need clear M&E frameworks.
- Large-scale process coordination creating tools to communicate shared activities, process flows, action plans, or multi-year collaboration roadmaps.
- Cross-sector partnership development facilitating collaboration between diverse actors in seafood value chains – major retailers, NGOs, traders and producers.
- National program creation building shared projects or frameworks for collaboration among multiple organizations with shared governance structures.
Strategic Positioning and Tailored Consulting
- Research-based white papers or synthetic reports that may be used to position your organization as an emerging thought leader in aspects of food systems, climate adaptation or other frontier spaces.
- Organizational transformation consulting for leading conservation organizations struggling to find niche space, connect program initiatives to landscape relevance, or to build new programs based on core competencies.
- Investment strategy consulting for ESG funds, examining scientific merit and feasibility trade-offs for marine conservation metrics (GFCR with Deliberate Capital).
- Blue economy development strategy for international settings and small island developing states (Waitt Institute Blue Prosperity Coalition).
Audits, Verification, and Assessments
- Auditing and Assessment services across multiple certification schemes or guidelines (MSC, ASC, Fair Trade USA Capture Fisheries Standard, Chain of Custody standards, IFC Performance Standard, Social Responsibility Assessment Tool, FIPs, AIPs, MSC ITM).
- Testing emerging compliance frameworks to provide field testing for new or emerging standards, assurance systems, internal audit tools or other practical aspects of user experience.
- Impact measurement systems for diverse and customized purposes, across fisheries, aquaculture, and marine systems.
- Feasibility assessments for sustainable seafood strategies in developing regions.
Stakeholder Engagement, Negotiation, and Facilitation
- Multi-stakeholder facilitation across contentious reforms requiring cultural sensitivity and diplomacy.
- International workshop organization and technical coordination.
- Cross-sector coalition building motivating collaboration across NGOs, governments, industry, indigenous communities, and academia.
- Facilitating regulatory reform working with observer programs, national regulatory bodies, and voluntary industry actions.
- Funding acquisition support to help clients obtain external funding through stakeholder relationship building and collaborative proposals.