Proceed to 2020 Survey Results
This web site (a sub-section of the IOC CD web site, (http://www.ioc-cd.org) contains the results of online surveys that aim at identifying the needs of IOC Member States in terms of capacity development.
Capacity building is an essential tenet of IOC’s mission: It enables all IOC Member States to participate in and benefit from ocean research and services that are vital to sustainable development and human welfare on the planet.
The IOC Capacity Development Strategy was adopted by the 28th Session of the IOC Assembly (2015) through Resolution XXVIII-2. You can download the Strategy : Download: En – Fr / Es – Ru
This Strategy’s vision identifies capacity development as the primary catalyst through which IOC will achieve its four high level objectives in the current 2014–2021 IOC Medium-Term Strategy.
During its 29th Session, the IOC Assembly adopted Decision IOC-XXIX/10.1 establishing the IOC Group of Experts on Capacity Development. The main objectives of the Group of Experts are to assist the global and regional programmes with the implementation of capacity development (CD) needs assessments, the development of related work plans, mobilization of resources, and provide advice on relevant methods and tools to deliver CD. The Group will also advise the Assembly on, and start implementation of, the Transfer of Marine Technology Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) as requested by the IOC Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology (IOC/INF-1203), making use, to the largest extent possible, of existing data and information systems already available at IOC.
In order to identify capacity development needs of IOC Member States the Group of Experts designed an online survey. Launched in October 2018 through Circular Letter 2738, the first survey focussed largely on regional needs and those of Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries. The results of the survey (Annex VI of IOC/GE-CD-I/3) also assessed the functional needs of a Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) as a tool ‘to provide interested users in Member States with direct and rapid access to relevant sources of information, practical expertise in the Transfer of Marine Technology (TMT), as well as to facilitate scientific, technical and financial cooperation to that end’. This finding materialized in April 2020 as the IOC Ocean InfoHub Project that focusses on the development of the CHM/TMT in Latin America and Caribbean region, Africa and Pacific SIDS (see Executive Council document IOC/EC-53/4.3.Doc for detail).
The “IOC CD needs assessment survey” will be repeated every two years. The first survey for which the results are made available online is 2020(-2021). The next survey is planned for 2022.
More information on the survey can be obtained from the IOC Secretariat (jp.diwa@unesco.org or p.pissierssens@unesco.org).