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| Country | Institution | Your Position | Gender | In your capacity as IOC national focal point for CD, what do you consider as the biggest problem in developing and maintaining national capacity in marine research/monitoring/management in your country? | What can/should IOC do to assist you? |
| Argentina | Servicio de HidrografÃa Naval | Technical Secretary | M | Retaininig early carrer ocean professionals through adequate job offers and positions | Continue contributing to the development of Ocean Literacy with a focus in both policy and decision makers as well as general public |
| Australia | CSIRO | Marine scientist | M | The level and priorities of regional aid | Assist clear regional strategy and timeline explicitly to assist regional countries and especially P-SIDS meet global reporting and science needs, and provide an evidence-informed platform for sustainable use and the Blue Economy |
| Brazil | Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação | Institutional Advisor on IOC Affairs | M | Inequalities among regions. Some, more developed, others not so. | I would be happy if IOC can assist with the National Strategic Plan for CD. Guidance for establishing a mentality of Ocean Best Practices would be great. Should it is possible, travel support for participation in training would be very useful. |
| Côte D’Ivoire | Centre de Recherches Oceanologiques | Senior Scientist, Head of Environment Department | M | Ocean science sampling equipment and instrumentation and Laboratory equipment and facilities | Help have access to fundings, call for proposals that allow buying equipments |
| Indonesia | Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology | Research Staff | M | Many, various, and different stakeholders | Sharing information on activities and opportinities |
| Mexico | SEP-DGETAyCM | Asesor en asuntos de la COI y desarrollo curricular | M | La coordinación entre instituciones a nivel nacional y la necesidad de mayor apoyo presupuesta. | Proporcionar apoyo para dar una mayor visibilidad en el paÃs a la COI y sus programas, en particular, en este caso, a la estrategia de CD. |
| Myanmar | Department of Meteorology and Hydrology | Deputy Director | M | At my point of view, less of station and lack of technique are the biggest problems. | I request to assist tidge gauge stations and buoys. |
| Nigeria | Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment | Legal Metrologist | M | Lack of due process in implementing policies | Training and retraining, surport with resources and equipment. |
| Senegal | Minstare de la Paeche et de l’Economie Maritime | Technical Secretary | M | lack of the number of Ocean Scientists and Langage barriers, development of the interface science policy funding the Ocean Science institutions and Langage barriiers | in the development of a national Ocean science policy, French langage ressources , Partnership for resources mobilisation |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Institute of Marine Affairs | Librarian | F | Marine researrch is not given the pivotal importance at the national level as manifest in insufficient policies (lack of ocean policy) and inadequate higher academic degree programmes in national ocean research – The only current masters programme offered is coastal management The University of West Indies at a masters level which focuses on coastal erosion but there is no masters programme on seabed mapping, etc. | I really do not know. The Government has given national scholarships for students to pursue degrees in technical areas where we need the help…i believe the problem is at the national level. |
| United Republic of Tanzania | Institute of Marine Sciences, UDSM | M | The biggest problem is the fewer institutions that of training in marine sciences which means also fewer marine science programmes. This is coupled with lack of equipement and good labs | To assist us to get scholarships in marine sciences training at BS, MS and PhD levels, and acquire equipment and good labs |