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The IOC Capacity Development Needs Assessment 2022 Survey is the third iteration of the biennial exercise started in 2018 (see: results of the 2018 survey in Annex VI of IOC/GE-CD-TT-I/3 and results of the 2020 survey at https://surveys.ioc-cd.org/index.php/2020-survey). Through the survey the IOC Group of Experts on Capacity Development assesses the capacity development requirements of Member States. The information provided will contribute to the holistic understanding of the capacity development needs and requirements. This analysis will be closely observed in the implementation of the IOC Capacity Development Strategy and will serve as a reference in the project development of the Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development.
The 2022 Capacity Development Needs Assessment Survey was organised by the IOC Group of Experts on Capacity Development (http://www.ioc-cd.org/gecd) and was designed to assess the capacity development requirements of member countries, in particular Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs). As instructed by the 31st Session of the IOC Assembly (2021) the IOC GE-CD has implemented the revised 2022 survey. The online survey was opened on 4 January 2023 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JQLDQK8 and closed on 10 March 2023. Some respondents who had difficulty accessing the online questionnaire requested for pdf copies of the questions. These were submitted to the Secretariat and manually encoded their responses in the database.
Informed by the experience and learnings from the first two versions of the CD Needs Assessment Survey, the 2022 survey was designed with shorter and less number of questions on critical capacity development needs of Member States. The questionnaire was closely reviewed and developed with the Global Ocean Science Report, as complementary questionnaires on ocean science capacity at Member States level. Based on the earlier version of the questionnaire used in 2018, the 2020 survey expanded overall the scope of CD stakeholder groups while the third survey sought contributions from Member States through their IOC national focal points.
The CD Needs Assessment survey consisted of 2 main parts: the first was for personal information of the respondents, while the second part contained questions focusing on capacity development based largely on the IOC CD Strategy framework of outputs and activities.
The survey was actively promoted through joint Circular Letter 2919 in English, French and Spanish. The information gathered by this survey were expected to contribute to assessing the capacity development needs in ocean science related issues and will also contribute to addressing capacity needs related to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030.