| Country | Institution | Your Position | Gender | What actions have you undertaken since your designation as IOC focal point for CD: |
| Argentina | Servicio de HidrografÃa Naval | Technical Secretary | M | Promoted CD surveys at national level |
| Australia | CSIRO | Marine scientist | M | None domestically |
| Brazil | Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação | Institutional Advisor on IOC Affairs | M | I am trying to keep acquainted with what is on in IOC regarding to this matter and calling upon attention of a necessity of a National CD Strategy to be built along the National Implementation Plan for the Ocean Decade. |
| Côte D’Ivoire | Centre de Recherches Oceanologiques | Senior Scientist, Head of Environment Department | M | I have my country participate in the survey on the marine spatial plan; I share email received from IOC to institutions. I explained the questionnaire of this survey to 20 scientists and technicians and I encourage them to participate to the survey online. |
| Indonesia | Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology | Research Staff | M | Sharing information and disseminating related activities |
| Mexico | SEP-DGETAyCM | Asesor en asuntos de la COI y desarrollo curricular | M | Difundir información a diversas instituciones, participar en las encuestas de CD. Realizar investigaciones de necesidades de capacitación. Desarrollo de un proyecto para determinar necesidades de desarrollo de capacidades en los Programas de Estudio. |
| Myanmar | Department of Meteorology and Hydrology | Deputy Director | M | I have undertaken the actions of issuing tsunami warning, coordination with UNESCO/IOC, cooperation for Tsunami Communication Tests and IOWave Exercises, communication with IOC to maintain the existing tide gaude stations. |
| Nigeria | Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment | Legal Metrologist | M | Not engaged yet |
| Senegal | Minstare de la Paeche et de l’Economie Maritime | Technical Secretary | M | Participation and contribution as much as possible to IOC CD activities, OTGA, my country was a RTC for French speaking countries in Africa during OTGA last phase, Ocean Decade regional programmes and activites ie IOC-Africa regional consultation in Kenya, |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Institute of Marine Affairs | Librarian | F | 1-Submitted IOC attendance/training reports to the Director (Dr. Ahmad Khan and now Dr. Rahanna Juman 2-Able to have the director steer the IMA Research from continued monitoring of coastal biodiversity to more of ocean-based scientific research – please see following e-mail below Dear Colleagues, The decade 2021-2030 is designated to be the “Decade of the Oceans†by the United Nations Environment Programme and the IMA intends to be participating in as many of the activities, workshops, conferences and meetings it can, either physically or via digital means. Preparations at the international level are well underway to develop a series of activities to mark the start of the decade and the email and links below just give a small snippet of what’s on the agenda. What’s also notable in the links provided is the type of research that is now being done globally in the sphere of Ocean Science and in the next two years, the IMA will be doing its utmost best to restart our oceanographic research programmes and to catch up with what is “Fresh, Hip and in the Now†with ocean science research. Central to that will be our public education , awareness, information dissemination and outreach initiatives which will lead to building Citizen Science capacity here in Trinidad and Tobago. Have a read…feedback on how we can mark the occasion here in T&T at midnight on December 31st 2020 will be welcome….after all we are the Institute of Marine Affairs and we are expected to take the lead role in all matters related to the marine and coastal environment on behalf of the government and people of Trinidad and Tobago! Dr Ahmad A Khan Director Institute of Marine Affairs Hilltop Lane Chaguaramas Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Cell: 1-868-310-0948 Tel: 1-868-634-4291 x 2500 e-mail akhan@ima.gov.tt; director@ima.gov.tt web: www.ima.gov.tt 3-Public Awarenes Programmes. “Beyond the Blue Exhibition” in 2019 (ocean themed) interactive exhibition for school students – received private sector funding 4-Beyond the Blue Broadcasts for 2019/2020 The capacity development for items listed as 2, 3 and 4 include the following; 2 – Director of the IMA enabled two research staff to attend regional seminars/conferences on Blue Economy; ocean policy training. Additionally – research staff trained internally to write research proposals 3-capacity development in the public awareness programmes included some IOC ocean literacy information for the k-12 students – information officers more informed of the upcoming decade and all lesson plans have been upgraded to include more ocean-based information 4-Radio broadcasts are all focused on ocean-related themes, etc. Although the aforementioned has not fully addressed the challenges we face of capacity development at the national level (academia, policy makers, etc.) the IMA has been able to raise awareness with internal staff and key stakeholders who have sought and continue to seek assistance of funding and training. For example, our title Sponsor, Republic Bank Limited, has included the IMA’s Decade of Oceans Project in their sponsorship programme, etc. It is slow but i have tried my best. |
| United Republic of Tanzania | Institute of Marine Sciences, UDSM | M | At the Institute of Marine Science, in collaboration with all other faculty we developed a BSc programme in marine sciences, which is not in the second year only |
IOC Capacity Development surveys results