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| Country | Institution/Organization: | Job Title: | Gender: | Open-Ended Response |
| Chile | Directorate of Maritime Interest and Aquatic Environment | Head Department Aquatic Environment Protection, Pollution Response and Climate Change | male | support regional programs addressing marine debris |
| Colombia | Colombian Ocean Commission | Executive Secretary and Antarctic Program Director | Male | Support is required on issues of adoption of new technologies for monitoring oceanographic variables with high-level autonomous and remote systems. |
| Ecuador | INSTITUTO OCEANOGRAFICO Y ANTARTICO DE LA ARMADA | INVESTIGADOR OCEANOGRAFICO | FEMALE | The previous questions respond to the needs of Pais, to achieve these objectives |
| Ecuatorial Guinea | Ministry of Fisheries and Water Resources | Geological engineer | Female | We need training short or long terms, equipemets,information and a representative office |
| Egypt | National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries | Prof. of Marine Pollution | Female | The IOC programs have to give a great effort to the collaboration between countries to take quick action towards the common problems facing the countries, for example, plastic pollution, climate change, ocean acidification, etc… |
| Estonia | Ministry of the Environment | Adviser | Female | different fields were allready mentioned |
| France | Ministère de la Transition Ecologique et de la Cohésion des Territoires | Secrétariat du Comité national français pour la COI | Female | – |
| Ghana | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) -Water Research Institute | Director | Male | Not Necessary. Training Not Important. Technical infrastructure Of Some Importance. Strengthened partnerships and collaboration in ocean observatios, reporting and policy. |
| Honduras | National Center of Atmospheric, Ocanic and Seismic Studies | Director | Male | Tsunami |
| India | INCOIS | Director | Male | |
| Japan | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) | Director for Deep Sea-Earth Scientific Research | Male | |
| Kuwait | Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research | Principal Research Scentist | Female | Providing consultants in particular fields of need, providing opportunities to be involved in International and Regional Expeditions, and providing information sources to hire crew, engineers, and specialists to work as cruise teams with the scientists in expeditions, there is a serious shortage of manpower in this area. |
| Myanmar | Department of Meteorology and Hydrology | Deputy Director | Male | Need to get the new tide gauge stations, buoys and modelling software for Tsunami. |
| Poland | Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences | Deputy Director for Reserch | male | assistance in process of establishing the NODC |
| Tanzania, United Republic of, | Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam | Professor | Male | Emerging new development in ocean science and research. |
| Venezuela | Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC) | Research Staff | Female |