This draft International Multi-species Action Plan (MSAP) for the Conservation of the Benguela Current System Coastal Seabirds was developed for nine priority species, as identified by AEWA Table 1 (version revised at MOP5) and verified by the AEWA Technical Committee. It was commissioned to BirdLife South Africa and compiled by Christina Hagen and Ross Wanless. An action-planning workshop was held in Namibia in September 2014, kindly supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany and the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) of Switzerland and hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism of the Republic of Namibia. Drafts of the plan went through rigorous consultations with experts followed by official consultation with government officials in the range states. The draft plan was approved for submission to MOP6 by the Technical Committee and the Standing Committee by correspondence in September 2015. Being the first MSAP under AEWA, this Action Plan follows an adapted version of the revised format for Single Species Action Plans approved by the 4th Session of the Meeting of the Parties to AEWA in September 2008.