Ocean Researchers - Question 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17: Is Sustainable Development Goal 14 considered as a national priority in your country? How is it reflected in your national plans and policies? How would you rate the level of capacity available right now in your country to achieve SDG 14? How would you rate the level of capacity available right now in your institution to support the achievement of SDG 14 in your country?

Representatives of Organization/Company/Institution

Country	Institution	Your Position	Gender	Is Sustainable Development Goal 14 considered as a national priority in your country?	If yes, how is this reflected in your national plans and policies?	How would you rate the level of capacity available right now in your country to achieve SDG 14?	How would you rate the level of capacity available right now in your institution to support the achievement of SDG 14 in your country?
Algeria	National center for research and development of fisheries and aquaculture	Researcher	Male	Yes	Many programs and projects are established by the ministry of fisheries and fisheries products to responding an objectives of SDG14.	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Argentina	INIDEP	research program manager	Female	Yes	regulations on fishing and sustainable activities	Significant capacity	Significant capacity
Brazil	UNV	Un Volunteer	Male	No		Partial capacity	Partial capacity
China	China Institute for Marine Affairs	research fellow	Female	Yes	The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been integrated into China’s 14th Five Year Plan for Social and Economic Development. Various efforts on achieving Goal 14 has been initiated through government policies and sectoral plans.	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Colombia	Centro de Investigaciones OceanogrÃ¡ficas e HidrogrÃ¡ficas del PacÃfico (CCCP)	Scientific researcher	Female	Yes	With the establishment of initiatives such as the bioceanic CONPES Colombia Potencia BioceÃ¡nica Sostenible	Significant capacity	Significant capacity
Colombia	DirecciÃ³n General MarÃtima	National Oceanographic Data Center	Female	Yes	There are institutions responsible for managing and it is part of the policy of the Colombian Ocean Commission (CCO).	Significant capacity	Significant capacity
Colombia	INVEMAR	General Director	Male	No		Partial capacity	Significant capacity
Colombia	INVEMAR	Information and Marine Research Head	Female	Yes	Yes by the National Department and in the National Action Plan for the current government one of the region related there is oceans.	Partial capacity	Significant capacity
Côte D’Ivoire	SODEXAM	Head of forecast	Male
Dominican Republic	National Meteorology Weather Services Dominicana Republic	Tsunami Warning Section Manager	Male
Ecuador	Instituto OcenogrÃ¡fico y AntÃ¡rtico de la Armada	Coordinador de Asuntos OceanogrÃ¡ficos	Male
Egypt	National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	researcher	Male	I don’t know		Low capacity	Significant capacity
Gambia	DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES	SNR METEOROLOGICAL OFFICER/PMO	Male	Yes	Yes, it is one of our main priorities in our national development plan in our country, because it targets long term process of sustainable development	Low capacity	Low capacity
Grenada	Met office	Middle level technician	Female
Guatemala	INSIVUMEH	Jefe del Departamento de GeofÃsica	Male	Yes	En la legislaciÃ³n de conservaciÃ³n y protecciÃ³n del ambiente.	Low capacity	Low capacity
Guatemala	UNESCO	Consultant	Female	Yes		Significant capacity	Significant capacity
Guinea	CNSHB	SEARCHER	Male	Yes	weakly	Low capacity	Significant capacity
Guinea-Bissau	Ministery of the fishing	investigation	Male
Guyana	Hydrometeorological Service	Meteorologist	Male	I don’t know		I don’t know	Low capacity
India	National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research	Director	Male	Yes	It is reflected in all research proposals and implementation plan	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Indonesia	Indonesia Agency for Meteorology Climatology adn GeophysicsBMKG	Director of R&D Center	Female	Yes	We establish national planning and road map that may be used to cope the SDG 14	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Indonesia	BPPT	Head of Marine Survey Technology	Male	Yes	National Policy to support SDG 14 such President Policy to support Development and Strengthening of Tsunami Early Warning System in Indonesia	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Indonesia	Institute for Marine Research and Observation	Director	Male
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Iranian National Institute for Oceanographic and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS)	Head of Iranian National Center for Ocean Data (INCOD)	Female
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science	Member of Scientific Board, Head of Department of Oceanographic Data and Remote Sensing	Male	No		I don’t know	I don’t know
Kazakhstan	Republican State-owned Enterprise â€œKazHydrometâ€	Head of the Department of the Caspian Sea Hydrometeorological Research	Female	I don’t know		I don’t know	I don’t know
Kenya	Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute	Librarian/Information Manager	Male	Yes	in the vision 2030	Significant capacity	Significant capacity
Kenya	Indian Ocean Observatory	Editorial/Communication Director	Male	No		Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Madagascar	Centre National de Recherches sur l’Environnement (CNRE)	Head of the institution	Male	Yes	Protection and sustainable exploitation of marine ressources are one of the priority of our national development policy	Low capacity	Low capacity
Madagascar	Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines	Senior Lecturer (Oceanography)	Male	Yes	SDG 14 is part of the National Development Plans and Policy. Eg. SDG4.2030-Access to high quality and free education for primary and secondary schools.	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Malaysia	Malaysian Meteorological Department	Principal Assisstant Director	Male	Yes	Some of the national developement projects have to in-line with this	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Mauritania	Institut Mauritanien de Recherches OcÃ©anographiques et des PÃªches (IMROP)	Coordinateur Scientifique	Male
Mauritius	Mauritius Meteorological Services	Acting Deputy Director	Male	Yes	There are dedicated ministries and government institutes which address SDG14	Significant capacity	Partial capacity
Mexico	CETMAR-Ensenada	Director	Male	No	There is no plan for this goal	Significant capacity	Low capacity
Mozambique	INAHINA	Head of department	Male	Yes	All development projects to be developed in the oceans are approved based on the opinions that are issued by institutions that are aware of sea matters	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Mozambique	National Institute of Hydrography and Navigation-INAHINA	Researcher	Female	Yes		Significant capacity	Partial capacity
Nigeria	Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research	Chief Data Processing Officer/Programme Analyst	Male	I don’t know		Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Nigeria	NIGERIA INSTITUTE FOR OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE RESEARCH	RESEARCH OFFICER(SATELLITE O EANOGRAPHER)	Male	Yes	Under SDG 14, My institution is established to take up the responsibility and take the issue of hardnesing blue economy as a priority.	Low capacity	Low capacity
Oman	Marine science and fisheries centre	Manger	Male	Yes	Implementing related strategies	Significant capacity	Significant capacity
Peru	Servicio Nacional de Meteorologia e Hidrologia del Peru – SENAMHI		Male	Yes	Actualizando el Plan Estratégico Nacional y la Política Nacional Marítima.	Partial capacity	Low capacity
Peru	INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERU – Peruvian Institute of Marine Research	Research Director of Oceanography and Climate Change	Male	No		Partial capacity	Significant capacity
Peru	Directorate of hydrography and Navigation	Head of oceanography Department	Male	Yes	We are preparing a national decade ocean plan to support our efforts in order to accomplish the decade results.	Partial capacity	Significant capacity
Peru	Centro Peruano de Arqueologia Maritima y Subacuatica	Board Member	Male	I don’t know		Partial capacity	Low capacity
Philippines	Palawan Council for Sustainable Development		Male	Yes	Strengthening ICM and ocean research is a priority but the budget allocated is not enough	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Philippines	TUBBATAHA MANAGEMENT OFFICE	PROTECTED AREA SUPERINTENDENT	Female	Yes	MANY LAWS ON OCEAN PROTECTION SHOWS INTENTION TO PROTECT BUT POOR ENFORCEMENT SHOWS LACK OF ACTION TOWARDS INTENTIONS	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Philippines	Philippine Nuclear Research Institute	Senior Science Research Soecialist	Male	Yes	Incorporated in the regulations.	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Romania	NMA Romania	wheather and marine forecaster	Female	I don’t know		I don’t know	I don’t know
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	UNESCO – IOC	National consultant -St.Vincent and the Grenadines	Female
Seychelles	Department of Blue Economy	Director General, Maritime Boundary Management	Female	Yes	The concept of the blue economy and the MSP initiative two of the biggest programs are centered on SDG14. The Seychelles Blue Economy Roadmap and Framework is mostly based on SDG14.	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
Seychelles	Seychelles Islands Foundation	Science Coordinator	Female
Sudan	Institute of Marine Research- Red Sea University- Port Sudan Sudan	Researcher	Male	I don’t know		Low capacity	Low capacity
Sudan	Sudan Meteorological authority	Head of Weather and Shipping Forecast Department	Male
Turkey	Bogazici University – KOERI	RETMC Assistant Manager	Male
Turkey	Central Fisheries Research Institute (SUMAE)	Research Coordinator	Male
Ukraine	Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University	Leading Scientist	Male
Ukraine	UkrSCES	Director	Male	Yes	This is reflected in Marine Doctrine of Ukraine until 2035	Low capacity	Partial capacity
United Arab Emirates	MoCCAE	Head of Marine Biodiversity section	Female
United Republic of Tanzania	Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute	Director General	Male	Yes	Fisheries policies and regulations and environment (especially climate change-related) policies all basically align with SDG14	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
United Republic of Tanzania	Fisheries Education and Training Agency	Fisheries Officer/ Lecturer	Male	Yes	implemented in fisheries policy and regulations	Low capacity	Low capacity
United Republic of Tanzania	Tanzania Meteorological Authority	Incharge of Marine Meteorological Services	Male	Yes	The Government has establish environmental protection policy	Partial capacity	Partial capacity
United Republic of Tanzania	MARINE CONSERVATION UNIT	WILDLIFE MANAGER	Male
Venezuela	Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research	scientific researcher and Head of the Center for Oceanology and Antarctic Studies	Male	Yes	This is reflected in the economic development plans for coastal and island areas and populations, in the laws on fishing and tourism development.	Low capacity	Low capacity
Vietnam	Institute of Oceanography	Header of Department of Remote Sensing and Oceanography	Male	Yes	I will suggestion information later.	Low capacity	Low capacity