Understanding regional needs and priorities
DOALOS conducts聽consultations聽with聽regional聽intergovernmental聽organizations and others to gain insight in ongoing regional programmes and activities on ocean governance and to identify capacity-building needs and priorities in the region.聽聽
This project activity聽delivers聽an inventory of ocean-related capacity-building needs鈥痑nd priorities聽within regions. It also聽aids in聽the identification聽of鈥痚xisting聽programmes鈥痮n ocean governance to determine how the project can complement or reinforce聽such initiatives聽through聽customized training courses聽and other capacity-building initiatives.
Topics that have been identified in an initial round of regional consultations as priority areas include maritime boundary delimitation, marine spatial planning, extended continental shelf, ocean governance and blue economy.
Regional consultations have been conducted with the participation of the following organizations.
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- IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC)
- Office of the Pacific鈥疧cean鈥疌ommissioner (OPOC)
- Pacific Island Forum鈥�(PIF)鈥疭ecretariat
- Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)
- Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment鈥疨rogramme鈥�(SPREP)
- University of the South Pacific (USP)
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- Abidjan Convention鈥疭ecretariat
- Blue Ventures Madagascar
- IOC Sub-Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA)
- Nairobi Convention Secretariat
- Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT)
- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA)
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- Cartagena Convention Secretariat
- Central America Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD)
- IOC Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (IOCARIBE)
- Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Regional Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Permanent Commission of the South Pacific (CPPS)
- UNEP Caribbean Sub-Regional Office